Saturday, June 7, 2025
Food technology company Ochakov Food Ingredients Plant has produced the country’s first sample of clean meat, also called cultured or cell-based meat, in a laboratory, Forbes writes.  The move will open up possibilities for a sustainable alternative to traditional meat products for the country’s consumers, the company said in a...
Russia's security service FSB said Thursday it is now reviving cooperation with American agencies on cybersecurity issues despite major tensions between the two countries, TASS reported citing the agency’s head Alexander Bortnikov.   “We are restoring those relations,” FSB’s chief told journalists in comments carried by the news agency, despite trading...
Russia’s internet and tech major Yandex released a short video app for fashion and style Monday, Reuters reported. The company hopes the latest addition to its ever-growing portfolio of services will rival China's TikTok. The Yandex app is called Sloy, the Russian word for layer, the company said in a statement,...
Fyodor Ovchinnikov, the freshly crowned franchise czar of Russia is betting beyond his country and into global expansion with the help of cloud technology, Bloomberg writes in an analysis of the rise of the billionaire’s company, Dodo Pizza. From a single basement oven in his native Syktyvkar in the Far...
JSC Russian Helicopters and China's Avicopter company could sign a contract on designing heavy helicopter AC322 AHL by the end of 2019, a spokesperson for Russian Helicopters told TASS on Saturday at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin. "JSC Russian Helicopters and Avicopter have concluded talks and coordinated all contract...
Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85, The Independent reported. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was saddened to announce the death of “cosmonaut No 11” who was twice decorated with the country’s top...
The Kremlin on Friday backed a proposal for a law restricting foreign ownership in Russia’s tech companies on the grounds of national security, sending down shares in Yandex, the country’s biggest internet firm, The Financial Times reports. The law would limit foreign ownership in “significant information resources” to 20%,...
The Russian Central Bank sees no obvious need to issue a national cryptocurrency, head of the regulator Elvira Nabiullina said at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies, TASS informs. "As Russia’s Central Bank, we have been studying this topic and the need to issue a national cryptocurrency is not...
Lawmakers from Russia’s ruling party are proposing legislation that would allow authorities to block individual e-mail or online messenger users who circulate banned content, Reuters reported. Members of the Duma say the bill, which is likely to alarm advocates of internet freedoms, is needed to combat a wave of hoax...
After being banned from the U.S. on espionage concerns and partnering with Russia to develop the country’s 5G network, Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has signed a similar deal with the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported on Sunday. The chief technological officer of UAE telecoms company Du, Saleem Albalooshi, said his firm saw...