A draft law introducing the CryptoRuble, a Russian digital currency, was submitted to the Russian Parliament last week by Communist Party MP Rizvan Lurbanov, Bitcoin.com reported.
The document’s explanatory note read “the amendments proposed by the draft law… codify the digital financial asset as a legal means of payment on...
Dating apps have seen a significant surge in users and traffic since the soccer World Cup kicked off in the Russian capital last week, Gazeta.ru reported.
Tinder experienced a big boost in those seeking dates, according to Russian mobile operators. In June, traffic of the dating service tripled among the clientele...
The number of users in North America buying software from Russian internet security company Kaspersky Lab is growing, while the U.S. market remains the second-largest for the company in terms of sales volume, the company’s Chief Business Officer Alexander Moiseev said in an interview with pro-Kremlin news outlet Sputnik.
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U.S.-based tech giant Google has paid a fine of 500,000 rubles (around $7,600) for failing to remove search links to banned information, Russia's state media and telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor said Friday, according to TASS news agency.
Roskomnadzor imposed the fine in December, accusing Google of breaching the Russian legislation that...
The Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) has issued a fine to South Korean electronic giant Samsung over the pricing of its smartphones, Izvestia reported citing RIA news agency.
The anti-monopoly watchdog said last month it had found Samsung's Russian unit guilty of illegally supporting retail prices for its smartphones and tablets, FAS said.
“Although we have...
Russian startup Bartini and engineers from Russia’s National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) in Moscow have successfully flight tested a prototype flying taxi, according to Moscow Evening News.
The 5 x 5m (16 x16ft) EVTOL (electrical vertical take-off and landing) air taxi features ducted propellers that rotate perpendicular to the vehicle’s...
Russia’s Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNS) has developed a pilot Digital Shipyard concept, the company’s CEO Vladimir Seredokho has said, according to Korabel.ru.
According to the official, the state-run United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and the Ministry of Industry & Trade took a favorable view of the concept.
About 60 experts from 14 companies have been working on...
Concerns over security and foreign political interference are driving Washington to impose growing restrictions on the operations of Russian and Chinese companies in the U.S., Nikkei reports.
In the most prominent case of this practice, last September, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an order directing all federal agencies...
A committee in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, is expected to approve an initiative on Wednesday to legally regulate basic digital economy norms, Izvestya reports.
The bill’s authors believe that will help regulate and develop the new field of economic relations, an online sphere, where tokens and cryptocurrencies...
The draft law on Russia’s “sovereign Internet”, when implemented, will create risks of disrupting the work of Russian domains and excessively expand the powers of state censor Roskomnadzor to directly manage the communications industry, analysts from the Expert Council under the Russian government told Kommersant.
In order to compensate for the...
