Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks that Russia and the US need to reach an agreement on incident prevention in the cybersphere, TASS informed.
"To jointly develop and conclude a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on preventing incidents in the information space similarly to the Soviet-American Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On...
The maximum amount of crude oil output that Russia can restore is 250,000 barrels per day (bpd), Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak has said, according to Platts.
As part of the recent decision by the OPEC-led coalition to increase production, Russia initially obliged to up the output by 200,000 bpd....
Elon Musk posted on Twitter on Sunday that SpaceX will launch a spacecraft to the moon in 2022 under a deal entirely funded by the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, according to TASS.
He said, that the following year, SpaceX will launch satellite Doge-1 to the moon, with the project being paid for...
The Russian central bank has given the green light to a Norlisk Nickel (NorNickel) digital asset tokenization platform, Finance Magnates reports. The approval is subject to the new federal law “On Digital Financial Assets” coming into force. Currently, Russian legislation requires digital platforms to be operated by banks and...
The Russian chatbot market is set to increase threefold in 2020, reaching or exceeding 4 billion rubles (around $65 million at the current exchange rate), says a report by industry association Neuronet.
This market already tripled in value this year to around 1.5 billion rubles ($24 million), East-West Digital News...
Russia’s banking holding VTB Group said on Monday that the company’s investment unit, VTB Capital, had sold its entire stake in Bulgaria’s leading telecoms operator, Vivacom, to Amsterdam-based telecoms and media company United Group, Reuters reports.
United Group, owned by private equity firm BC Partners, said last week it had agreed to...
U.S. internet giant Google has been fined in Russia once again for failing to ban sites ruled to be “extremist” from appearing in search results, Interfax reported citing a statement by the country’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.
The internet company had been fined 500,000 rubles ($7,530) for failing to block blacklisted pages...
The structure of the small business sector in Russia is changing gradually and becoming ever more high-tech-oriented, Vladimir Putin told TASS in the latest episode of a long-running interview series with the Russian President.
Putin stressed that in the 2000s nearly all of Russia’s small businesses were in retail trade,...
A global project by U.S.-based company OneWeb to bring broadband internet to the world’s most remote areas has been dealt a heavy blow by the Russian government, which has adopted a resolution requiring all satellite traffic in Russia to transmit through ground stations, RBC reports.
The new requirements take...
The prospects for the introduction of the digital ruble in the near future are realistic, a pilot launch is possible at the end of 2021, head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said during an online conference following a meeting of the regulator's board of directors, TASS reported.
"After...
