Non-commercial Partnership for Development and Use of Navigation Technologies (GLONASS Union) was established on 21 May 2012 with the goal of development and adoption of GLONASS technology-based products and services in Russia and abroad. GLONASS Union members (as of March 2014) are leading Russian companies in telecommunication, IT, and navigation markets: JSC “VimpelCom”, JSC “MegaFon“, JSC “MTS”, JSC “Rostelecom”, JSC “Navigation Information Systems”, JSC “Summa Telecom”, Transas Group, Cesar Satellite Group, Yandex LLC, Association “GLONASS/GNSS Forum”, JSC “Control systems” and Federal state unitary enterprise “ZaschitaInfoTrans of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation”. GLONASS Union is a member of the advisory groups of the Eurasian Economic Commission of Customs Union (CU) and Common Economic Space (CES), European Intelligent Transport Systems Association (ERTICO) and other international and Russian organizations.