Russia on Monday carried out tests on its ‘sovereign internet’ to ensure the "security” of the infrastructure in case of a foreign cyberattack, NDTV reported.
Internet activists have warned the move could also tighten censorship and lead to online isolation.
A controversial law that allows the country to cut internet traffic from...
A stronger ruble against the dollar and demand ahead of Russia's New Year holiday has driven export prices for Russian wheat up for a sixth straight week last week, analysts told Reuters.
Agricultural consultancy IKAR said in a note that prices for Russian Black Sea wheat with 12.5% protein content for...
Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Russian ‘pirate website’ Sci-Hub, which offers downloads of academic papers without regard to copyright, is alleged to have hacked the systems of 39 British universities, The Sunday Times reports.
Sci-Hub publishes millions of academic papers free that would otherwise be available only through subscriptions or...
Moscow and Kyiv have reached a new five-year agreement on Russian gas transit through Ukrainian territory, averting a supply crisis, The Moscow Times reported on Sunday.
Russian energy giant Gazprom threatened to cease all shipments through Ukraine to European consumers if the two countries failed to replace the current transit...
The lower house of the Kazakh parliament on Wednesday approved the amendments to a Kazakh-Russian agreement on building the Baiterek space rocket complex at Baikonur Cosmodrome, state news agency Kazinform reported.
Kazakh Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Askar Zhumagaliev said Kazakhstan plans to allocate 233 million U.S....
Russia will retaliate against U.S. sanctions without hurting itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Bolshaya Igra program on Russia’s television Channel One, TASS reported.
"We will respond to sanctions but in a way not to hurt ourselves. But we will definitely respond. And we...
Analysts are predicting the trend of buying gold by central banks across the world to continue into 2020, Seeking Alpha writes.
Taking its gold reserves to over $100 billion this year, the Bank of Russia has been one of the forerunners of the gold-buying spree.
Through the end of October, net...
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a law that will impose sanctions on any firm that helps Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, finish a pipeline into the European Union, AFP reported Saturday.
The sanctions target firms building Nord Stream 2, an undersea pipeline that will allow Russia to increase gas...
Swiss-Dutch offshore contractor Allseas has halted its activities related to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline after the United States said the company could be sanctioned for its participation in the project, TASS reported.
"In anticipation of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Allseas has suspended its...
Shareholders of Yandex have voted to allow a “golden share” in the company to be held by a new entity, as part of a corporate governance restructuring plan forced by the government, Reuters reports.
The Russian government, concerned that user data could fall into foreign hands, wants to limit foreign...
