Russian mobile operator MobileTeleSystems (MTS) is involved in negotiations on the purchase of online streaming service Ivi.ru, RBC reports citing unnamed sources.
The reported price of the deal for 36% of the popular streaming company is 20 billion rubles ($309million), according to the news outlet.
Analysts at Sberbank CIB commented...
Russian social network VKontakte (VK), known as Russia’s version of Facebook, wants to create a cryptocurrency that all its users can implement, RNS reports.
According to the news website, an unspecified person familiar with the company’s plans said that the project involves the creation of individual cryptocurrency accounts for...
The Russian ruble bounced off 10-day lows and firmed on Friday, and global sentiment towards emerging market currencies improved and oil prices rose, Reuters reports.
The currency gained 0.3 percent to 64.73 against the dollar, heading away from its weakest level since March 18 of 65.29 it hit the...
One of Russia’s richest men, Norilsk Nickel’s billionaire chief Vladimir Potanin, is planning several digital platforms, including using crypto tokens for trading palladium, Bloomberg reported.
Nornickel, the world’s top palladium producer, is in talks with Swiss authorities about issuing tokens by its Switzerland-based palladium fund, and may eventually expand the concept...
Russia has postponed the second reading of their cryptocurrency draft laws by one more month. The State Duma, which is the lower house of parliament, unanimously voted to move the reading to April, state-owned news agency TASS reported. No explanation was offered as to why the reading was pushed forward.
The motion...
Russian free-to-air broadcaster Channel One has signed a deal with British television and digital media group Twofour to make local versions of formats What Would Your Kid Do? and Change Your Tune, Realscreen.com reports.
The channel has ordered eight-episode series of each title, which are to air later this year.
“To have one...
A Ukrainian- e-learning start-up, AllRight.io, has secured $1.5 million in a funding round led by Buran Venture Capital, East-West Digital News reported.
Founded in 2017, AllRight provides children aged 4-12 with courses of English as a foreign language. The startup claims to serve more than 1,700 active users monthly, mostly...
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has instructed the country’s internet providers to enforce a block against encrypted email provider ProtonMail, Meduza reports citing an executive order.
The move comes after the agency accused the company and several other email providers of facilitating bomb threats. Several anonymous bomb threats were...
Russian tech giant Yandex has started the deployment of the second phase of its 10MW data center facility in the Energetik neighborhood of the city of Vladimir in Russia, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
Аccording to the Russian newspaper, the facility is set to double its original size and its launch has...
A website that streams television shows in the United States that were originally produced and broadcast in Russia will face copyright infringement claims in New York, a federal district court said, according to Bloomberg Law.
The website, Russian TV, is a New York corporation. It provides unauthorized access to Russian...
