The Russian Ministry of Transport is planning to trial blockchain maritime solution TradeLens, developed by U.S. tech firm IBM and container shipping giant Maersk, which aims to digitize the global shipping chain, Kommersant reported this week.
The business newspaper received a copy of an official letter addressed to Russian Deputy...
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the development of a national strategy in the field of artificial intelligence in June this year, according to the list of instructions published on Wednesday, TASS news agency reports.
The tasks were published on the Kremlin’s official website following Putin’s State of the Nation...
Russia’s Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNS) has developed a pilot Digital Shipyard concept, the company’s CEO Vladimir Seredokho has said, according to Korabel.ru.
According to the official, the state-run United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and the Ministry of Industry & Trade took a favorable view of the concept.
About 60 experts from 14 companies have been working on...
A global project by U.S.-based company OneWeb to bring broadband internet to the world’s most remote areas has been dealt a heavy blow by the Russian government, which has adopted a resolution requiring all satellite traffic in Russia to transmit through ground stations, RBC reports.
The new requirements take...
Russian analysts say it is possible that Splunk, a major U.S. IT company specializing in cybersecurity and big data analytics, was withdrawing from the Russian market due to political reasons, Kommersant writes.
The cybersecurity firm explained the decision by saying it is due to its revised investment strategy. However, Splunk’s...
California-based big data analytics firm Splunk Inc. has announced it is pulling out of Russia in a mysterious blog post that didn’t provide any reason for the move, ZDNet reports.
The company, which also sells cybersecurity tools, said only that it is “continually evaluating” where it invests and focuses its...
The Russian retail fixed broadband internet market volume totaled 135.6 billion rubles ($2.47 billion), up by 3.2 percent year on year, according to a study from TMT Consulting. Average revenue per user (ARPU) was 344 rubles ($5.19), up by 1 ruble from 2017, Telecompaper reports.
According to the report, subscriber...
Russia’s state-owned defense and technology conglomerate Rostec will make its first international offering of naval air and missile defense systems, as well as new small arms targeting the Middle Eastern market at this year’s IDEX show in the United Arab Emirates, Defense News reports.
Rostec’s presence at the International Defence...
Russian media and telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Tuesday it will fine social media companies Twitter and Facebook if they fail to abide by a Russian law requiring them to keep databases of Russian users in the country, Interfax reported.
"The companies will either have to localize the databases within a...
Russia-based IT solutions provider Softline said on Thursday it is entering the Bulgarian market, after successfully launching operations in six Eastern European countries in 2018, Bulgarian news outlet Novinite reported.
A newly-established company called Softline Bulgaria will pay special attention to the Server Message Block (SMB) market niche, where...
