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The amount of financial support provided by Moscow to technology companies increased ninefold in 2020. Thanks to the city's support, companies can partly recoup their expenditure on equipment purchases and leases, interest on business expansion loans, online promotion of goods and services, exports, employee training, exhibitions and other activities. Residents...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday refuted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent claim that Moscow undermines confidence in safe vaccines as absurd, Sputnik News reports. "When and where have we undermined anything? Where are the materials? Publish something, present some exact facts at least to your...
Muscovites are using the My Moscow mobile app more frequently since the release of its updated version at the end of 2020. In particular, the popularity of the Services, My Payments and News & Events sections has increased, with the overall number of users up by more than 100,000. The...
The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage and 36 UK OneWeb communication satellites was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, the event was broadcast on Roscosmos website, TASS reports. The Frigate upper stage with satellites separated from the third stage of the rocket. It will take almost four hours...
Twitter has removed only a third of content prohibited in Russia, Russia’s mass media watchdog said on Tuesday, TASS informed. "Roscomnadzor informs that after it took measures to slow down Twitter traffic on March 10, 2021, the social network began to remove prohibited content but actually has removed only a...
The Ministry of Digital Development has developed a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in which it proposed to start issuing electronic passports to citizens in Moscow from December 1, 2021. For the rest of the Russians, this opportunity will appear "as soon as they are...
With anti-Russian sanctions gathering momentum, particularly in the US, President Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov says he does not exclude the possibility of Russia being unplugged from the SWIFT financial network, RT reported. “We cannot rule out any of the potential threats... These actions are unreasonable and unpredictable, therefore, of...
The tech mogul sometimes entertains the Twitter crowd with Russian phrases or reacting to Russian memes, Sputnik News reports. Tesla chief and multi-billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter recently to make a quip about the recent case involving a Russian national who pleaded guilty to attempting to hack the electric...
Russia has postponed the launch of its Soyuz-2.1a rocket to Sunday, state news agency RIA quoted Roscosmos space agency Director General Dmitry Rogozin as saying on Saturday. According to Reuters, citing RIA, Rogozin said the decision to postpone from Saturday was made after a voltage spike ahead of the planned...
Russia’s corvette Stoikiy has entered Port Sudan, two high-ranking sources at the port told Sputnik News. “Corvette Stoikiy 545 arrived at the northern part of Port Sudan on Thursday as part of boosting the relations between the countries,” one of the sources said. On February 28, frigate Admiral Grigorovich became the...