A Russian rocket carrying communications satellites was launched into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, marking the country’s final space launch of the decade, Space News writes.
The rocket is carrying three Gonets-M communication satellites and a Blitz-M technology satellite to orbit and marks Russia's 25th space...
The Bank of Russia has said it is ready to test stablecoins – cryptocurrencies pegged to real assets - in regulatory sandbox conditions, Interfax reported citing the central bank’s head Elvira Nabiullina.
Nabiullina is known as one of Russia’s greatest arch-skeptics, but the report now says she wants companies who “want to...
The justice ministry of Greece has decided to extradite a Russian connected to the theft of $450mn in Bitcoin, to France, a ministry source said last week, according to The Business Times.
However, the extradition, wanted by France over money laundering charges, has been delayed, according to the lawyer of Alexander...
Member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) met earlier this month to express their discontent with a new Russian law obligating the pre-installation of Russian software on mobile devices, computers and smart TVs, Vedomosti reported.
According to the representatives from Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the amendments contradict the EAEU union agreement, the...
Russia on Monday carried out tests on its ‘sovereign internet’ to ensure the "security” of the infrastructure in case of a foreign cyberattack, NDTV reported.
Internet activists have warned the move could also tighten censorship and lead to online isolation.
A controversial law that allows the country to cut internet traffic from...
Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Russian ‘pirate website’ Sci-Hub, which offers downloads of academic papers without regard to copyright, is alleged to have hacked the systems of 39 British universities, The Sunday Times reports.
Sci-Hub publishes millions of academic papers free that would otherwise be available only through subscriptions or...
The lower house of the Kazakh parliament on Wednesday approved the amendments to a Kazakh-Russian agreement on building the Baiterek space rocket complex at Baikonur Cosmodrome, state news agency Kazinform reported.
Kazakh Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Askar Zhumagaliev said Kazakhstan plans to allocate 233 million U.S....
Shareholders of Yandex have voted to allow a “golden share” in the company to be held by a new entity, as part of a corporate governance restructuring plan forced by the government, Reuters reports.
The Russian government, concerned that user data could fall into foreign hands, wants to limit foreign...
Russia will test its so-called ‘sovereign Internet’ on Monday to determine the reliability of domestic internet infrastructure in the event that the country is disconnected from the worldwide web, the country’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media communications ministry has said, according to Reuters.
The threat testing will...
Russian internet holding Rambler Group said on Monday it will ask law enforcement to close a criminal case against American-owned web server Nginx, which has rocked the country’s IT industry, ZDNet reports.
Rambler claims ownership of Nginx's intellectual property rights and may pursue the case in civil court, the company...
