Friday, August 14, 2026
Two suspected Russian hackers have been brought to criminal responsibility for mining cryptocurrencies through infected computers in state organizations, RBC reported on Monday. Nikolay Murashov, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, told a press conference on Monday: "In Russia, there have been two cases recently when people...
Russia-focused U.S. company Fort Ross Ventures has made an investment in multinational technology firm Kryon that is expected to boost the use of its automation solutions by Russian businesses, ComNews reports. Kryon has developed a platform that comprises process discovery and robotic process automation (RPA) tools. The platform is used...
Russian transportation and logistics holding Fesco are in talks to sell its grain rail-wagon business, its president Alexander Isurin has confirmed, according to Vedomosti.  Two sources familiar with the details of the talks told the business newspaper that the prospective buyer is the country's biggest transporter of grain by rail,...
Russia’s long-awaited privatization program will take further shape this week when authorities will finalize a list of companies set for sale in 2020-2022, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. Russia has been delaying the process for years as it was trying to sell some of these...
In 2019, system administrators stole about a third of the personal information sold on DarkNet. The Izvestia newspaper writes about a new leak method based on a study by DeviceLock, a cybersecurity company. According to Radio Sputnik, IT specialists came under suspicion due to unloading from access control systems, presence...
Russia is ready to continue gas transit through Ukraine while maintaining the conditions of economic and commercial feasibility for Gazprom, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reported. He noted that the issue of gas transit was discussed in detail at the summit in Paris, but the details are too...
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin signed a law that introduces from January 1, 2020 a tax on self-employed in 19 donor regions and regions with cities with over one million people. The document was posted on Sunday on the official portal of legal information, TASS reported. The law extends the...
The Bank of Russia lowered the key rate by one step, to 6.25% per annum, and announced its readiness to reduce it further in the first half of 2020. Although the Central Bank's application form has not changed, its design has changed: the regulator acknowledged that the inflation path...
The EU policy of sanctions towards Russia continues to damage the EU economy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told reporters on Friday, TASS reported. "They extend every six months. Frankly speaking, we did not expect anything different. They continue to damage their own economy," Grushko said, commenting on...
An ongoing corporate dispute surrounding U.S.-based webserver Nginx has already affected the IT market and damaged the government’s development goals, the Kremlin’s special representative on digital and technological development Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, according to RBC. "Here’s my personal stance regarding Nginx. Those developments have already dealt a major...