Russian telecommunication company MTS on Friday announced launching the country's first pilot 5G user network at 14 popular locations in Moscow, allowing its clients with 5G-compatible smartphones to access unlimited 5G internet with speeds up to 1.5 gigabit per second.
"After multiple tests and trial versions in the 5G area,...
A Tsirkon hypersonic missile will be test-launched from an underwater carrier for the first time no sooner than June, a high-placed source in the domestic defense industry told TASS on Thursday.
"The Tsirkon may be test-launched for the first time from the Severodvinsk in June as the earliest date....
US accusations against Russia on the use of chemical weapons are baseless, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, adding that Moscow rolled back all programs that could be somehow related to chemical weapons a long time ago, TASS reported.
The Kremlin spokesman stressed that "Washington puts forward absolutely...
Despite actively implementing sanctions ever since bilateral relations started to deteriorate in 2014, Washington has maintained cooperation with Russia in the space industry, namely continuing to buy heavy boosters for space launches from Moscow, Sputnik reports.
The US Department of State has announced a new round of sanctions against Russia,...
The Kremlin inquired about Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk’s invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to have a conversation on the audio-only app Clubhouse but so far has received no reply, Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, TASS writes.
When asked whether the Kremlin managed to...
Russia’s national payment system Mir has conducted its first test transactions with Mir cards in Dubai. The Network International group of companies, which provides services in the e-commerce market in the Middle East and Africa, acts as the local partner of Mir in the UAE, the press service of...
A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat booster and Arktika-M weather satellite blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport, according to a broadcast on the Roscosmos state space corporation’s website, TASS reported.
The first Arktika-M Arctic monitoring satellite launched from the Baikonur spaceport aboard a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket has been successfully...
A Rossiya Airlines Boeing 777 cargo plane made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Friday due to a problem with an engine control sensor, the airline said, Reuters reports.
The plane was a 15-year-old 777-300ER, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, which means it has General Electric engines.
Those...
Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country's border.
On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed...
Cosmonauts have patched up several areas suspected of hiding a breach in the Russian segment of the International Space Station as they continue their frantic search for a mystery air leak, Sputnik News reports.
Dmitry Belkin, a senior press officer at the Russian state space agency Roscosmos, said the crew...
