Friday, April 26, 2024
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has decided to extend measures to slow down Twitter until May 15, the service reported on Monday, TASS reported. "Taking into account the decision made by Twitter for the first time to change the principles and...
The Bank of Russia’s governor Elvira Nabiullina has praised the implementation of blockchain technology in the local economy for the future, Crypto Daily reports. Nabiullina said that blockchain is still a developing technology, but it does indeed “have a space in Russia’s financial matters” and will definitely be an active...
The UN Agency for the Refugees' Affairs and Sheremetyevo International Airport honored the International Refugees Day by unveiling the ‘Refugees in the Modern World’ exhibit. In accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution of December the 4th 2000, Refugees' Day is celebrated on June the 20th each year from that...
In a move that angered Russia’s anti-corruption activists, Russia's Economy Ministry has proposed restricting access to the Unified Land Registry (EGRN), a database widely used by journalists and campaigners to uncover corruption in the country's elite, Vedomosti reports. The parliament's website has published the bill, which would introduce fines of...
Sheremetyevo International Airport received “Russia-2020 Transport Security” national award for the best implementation of requirements for air transport security at a ceremony held on November 12 in Moscow. The award is given jointly by the by the Transport Security Foundation and the Transport Security Association. “We thank the expert community...
Kiev intends to utilize Ankara's military assistance to start a new stage of attempts to plan military operations in southern Ukraine. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a special order lifting limitations on the use of weaponry in the Donbass war zone, directing the use of Turkish-made...
The CEO of Ukrainian state gas company Naftogaz, Andriy Kobolyev, says the company has already begun to recover $2.6 billion in debt from Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom that lost a lawsuit filed by Naftogaz with Stockholm arbitration on a gas transit contract, The Kyiv Post reports. "We have already...
According to the Russian Kommersant newspaper on Tuesday, Russia and the United States have agreed to convene their first round of nuclear strategic stability dialogue on July 28 in Switzerland, Reuters reports. At a conference in Geneva last month, U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to begin bilateral...
President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed as "absurd" Prague's accusations against Moscow after Czech authorities accused the Russian secret services of being behind a deadly arms depot blast in 2014, The Moscow Times reports. In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin "commented on the current state of...
Gazprom continues to pump into underground gas storage facilities (UGS) to replenish the fuel volumes taken this season and create a record operating reserve of 72.638 billion cubic meters of gas, Russian media informed. Taking into account the reserves in the territory of Belarus and Armenia, the reserve will amount...