Tuesday, April 29, 2025
EV charger manufacturer L-Charge and Moscow transport department discussed a large scale off-grid EV charging network roll out during the joint session at SPIEF-2021 Economic Forum last week. The company also announced that it’s first mobile EV charger will start to patrol Moscow city streets to provide on-demand charging service...
Fraudsters have begun to use new schemes to deceive Russians and steal money from their bank cards, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank. "If earlier fraudsters could quickly talk on the phone, immediately persuade the victim to transfer money, now the level of cyber literacy of...
Russia’s online smartphone sales reached their highest ever market share in Q1 2021 at 36%, according to the latest research from Counterpoint Research Model Sales Tracker. The country is recovering from the second wave of COVID-19, which helped its smartphone market grow by 4% YoY in Q1 2021. The...
The cost of bitcoin on the Binance crypto exchange increased by 5% and reached $34.5 thousand, with its capitalization increasing to $643 billion. The increase happened after El Salvador became the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as an official means of payment. El Salvador's Legislative Assembly has...
The National Payment Card System (NSPK, operator of Mir cards) has certified the technology that allows its users to pay any amount in stores by placing the Mir card on the merchant's smartphone. The NSPK has developed security requirements for SoftPOS technology, which allows using a smartphone as a...
The first international online forum Smart Cities Moscow had 86 speakers from Russia, China, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the United States, Sweden, and others, while more than 193,000 people participated in the panel discussions and sessions. "Recent years have especially shown how important it is to develop the IT infrastructure of...
According to the Interfax news agency, Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Wednesday that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms must have databases of Russian users on Russian territory by July 1 or face fines. As part of Moscow's broader efforts to exercise much more control over Big Tech,...
Moscow has fulfilled the “Sustainable Cities and Communities” international standard, which sets the main indicators for the quality of life and the provision of urban services. The city has been assessed in 68 indicators, including economy, innovation, healthcare, education, transport and security, Moscow Deputy Mayor Natalia Sergunina explained. The ISO...
On Thursday, Google's Russian unit announced that it had filed an appeal against a Moscow court order requiring it to unblock the YouTube account of a Christian Orthodox news channel operated by a Russian businessman subject to U.S. and EU financial sanctions. Konstantin Malofeev's Tsargrad TV claims that YouTube had...
Roskomnadzor is preparing to fight against VPN services that do not block content prohibited in Russia, with Vypr VPN and Opera VPN being the first casualties. Roskomnadzor asked companies and organizations across the country to notify them, should they use these two VPN services. Back in April, an internal letter...