The inclusion of the leading Russian sports betting operator Fonbet on a list of the country’s economic ‘backbone’ businesses appears to have slipped a disk, CalvinaAyre.com reports.
Earlier this week, Fonbet’s parent company LLC F.O.N. appeared on a government list of ‘systemically important organizations’, one of 646 companies whose financial...
Amid a sharp increase in the popularity of video calls, one of Russia’s top IT companies, Mail.ru Group, has decided to relaunch and rebrand its ICQ messenger with a focus on group communication, Kommersant reports.
The company has been running the messenger since 2010, and since 2017 it has also...
United States authorities have arrested a Russian rapper who is alleged of crypto money laundering while using his Instagram post as evidence against him, Cointelegraph reported last week.
According to court documents, rapper Maksim Boiko is accused of crypto money laundering by the FBI. The Bureau claims that Boiko laundered...
Internet traffic meant for more than 200 of the world's largest content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud hosting providers was suspiciously redirected last week through Russian state-owned telecommunications provider Rostelecom, ITwire reported.
The incident affected more than 8,800 internet traffic routes from 200+ networks, affecting companies that are a who's...
Amsterdam-based telecoms operator Veon has brought back a former CEO after a decade to run its Russian operation, Beeline, the company said, according to Broadband TV News.
Alexander Torbakhov will head Beeline Russia, Veon’s Russian operation, from Monday, the group announced.
He replaces Vasyl Latsanych, who had been CEO of Russian...
The unexpected coronavirus outbreak is delaying the adoption of Russia’s legislation “On Digital Financial Assets,” Anatoly Aksakov, head of the Duma committee on the financial markets has said, according to Cointelegraph.
However, he outlined that the law is completed. It will define cryptocurrency usage in the country, but it will...
Russia and the United States have suspended bilateral inspection missions within the framework of the New START treaty on reduction of strategic nuclear arms, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association Daryl Kimball has told TASS.
"The United States and Russia agreed to suspend on-site inspections under the New Strategic...
Uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis has forced Russia’s top consumer electronics retailer M.video to postpone discussions regarding its dividend policy, the company said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“It is difficult to predict the full impact on our business in 2020 due to developments both inside Russia and globally,”...
Russian state-run bank VTB is testing facial-payment technology at supermarkets and could deploy it on a wider basis by the middle of the year, Dairy News reported.
Russia's second-largest lender is testing the technology in the Lenta supermarket chain, the head of the bank's digital division told Izvestia.
VTB was the first...
A Russian Soyuz rocket delivered 34 more satellites to orbit for OneWeb’s space-based Internet network in the company’s second launch this year, Space News reported.
OneWeb intends to deploy a total of more than 600 satellites in low Earth orbit, which are designed to provide consumers on the ground with...
