Thursday, September 19, 2024
Two Russian law enforcement officers are being charged for defrauding 65 million rubles (a little over $1 million) from a media mogul in a cryptocurrency extortion scheme, Coingeek reports. Erast Galumov, who is a renowned media figure in Russia and former director of the media firm Izvestiya, was secretly detained...
Russian social network VKontakte (VK), known as Russia’s version of Facebook, wants to create a cryptocurrency that all its users can implement, RNS reports. According to the news website, an unspecified person familiar with the company’s plans said that the project involves the creation of individual cryptocurrency accounts for...
Russian agents use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools to spread propaganda and try to turn U.S. public opinion against domestic energy production, House Republicans said in a report released Thursday. According to Bloomberg, the report found that between 2015 and 2017, “an estimated 9,097 Russian posts or tweets...
The Russian New Mining Company, a well-known business offering industrial scale crypto mining solutions and opportunities, is working on a serious investment and the installing of thousands of mining units in a new farm, BEG reported. Local companies are also participating in the project worth a billion Norwegian kroner (around...
The Russian central bank is worried about a risk that cryptocurrencies may furnish a convenient basis for financial pyramid schemes, even though they were created for very different purposes, the bank’s first deputy governor, Sergey Shvetsov, told a forum in Moscow on Wednesday, describing the possible consequences as a...
Facebook Inc. said on Wednesday it would conduct a new, comprehensive search of its records for possible propaganda that Russian operatives may have spread during the run-up to Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, CNN reported. Some British lawmakers had complained that the world's largest social media network had done only...
One of the world's leading laboratories and technological centers, U.S.-based AGQ Labs, has announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Compas Ltd. in Russia, opening the doors to a gigantic market with a desire to professionalize and improve the quality of its products, the company said in a...
Russia’s 5G networks will cover 80 per cent of its population and support one in five of the country’s mobile connections by 2025, GSMA Intelligence (GSMAi) predicted in a report published last week, according to AP. The report, titled Mobile Economy: Russia and CIS 2018, released to coincide with the first...
Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs of 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminum should drove U.S. aluminum producers’ shares last week, but domestic producers seem unimpressed by the president’s move, CNBC reported. In a letter to Trump on Wednesday, a group of 114 producers and related industry companies...
U.S.-based tech giant Google has chosen not to dispute a $7,300 fine imposed by the Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor, the company’s press service told Sputnik news agency. The company was fined this month for failure to comply with Russian laws on deletion of links to resources banned in Russia from search results "We can...