A draft law on limiting foreign ownership in major Russian IT companies will be reworked to include the opinions of market players including Yandex, the lawmaker who drew up the proposal, Anton Gorelkin, told RBC on Tuesday.
On Monday, Yandex’s New-York-listed shares were boosted by a statement from Russia’s Deputy...
Russian arms producer Soyuzmash has requested the country’s central bank to allow it to process Bitcoin payments from both abroad and local customers in order to bypass sanctions imposed by the United States, FXStreet reported.
According to the company, despite heavy international restrictions on Russian companies to deal in...
Russian internet giant Yandex released second-quarter 2019 results on Friday, highlighting continued heady growth from its core search and portal business, Reuters reported. The company announced even more impressive gains from non-core segments such as its budding taxi, ridesharing, and media subscription offerings, the report says.
The internet-search specialist’s shares...
London-listed Russian Internet giant Mail.ru Group announced last week it has acquired Belarusian game studio Swag Masha through its gaming branch My.Games and Russian content & ad recommendation service Relap.io, East-West Digital News reported.
Founded in May 2018 and based in Minsk, Swag Masha is a small game studio with...
Russia is working on a project to de-anonymize Tor, a popular secure browsing software which enables anonymous communication, the BBC in Russian reported.
The information came from leaked data after a massive trove of sensitive documents was stolen by hackers from SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency...
5G, the latest mass technology of cellular communication will not replace its predecessor, LTE in Europe and, in particular, in Russia, for at least another ten years, Izvestia writes referring to a Deloitte report.
According to the professional services network’s report, 5G will spread much slower than LTE, with economic...
A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has docked with the International Space Station after a fast-track trip to the orbiting laboratory, AP/Washington Post informed.
The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The...
Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia's national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency, ZDNet reports.
The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by the name of...
A controversial new draft bill that would force all smartphone makers to pre-install Russian-made software on their devices sold in the country has been submitted to the State Duma, Reuters reported.
In a bid to support domestic software producers, Russian lawmakers from the ruling United Russia party want to make...
Venezuela is considering using the Russian alternative to the traditional international payment system SWIFT, as the country braces for new U.S. sanctions that could further weaken its financial sector, Bloomberg reported citing sources.
As the monetary regulator’s approval is necessary if Venezuela wants to use the payment platform, the country’s...
