A project for an "autonomous Russian Internet" that is important to the Kremlin will be adopted, but the authorities are unlikely to be technically able to achieve any ‘isolation’ of the Russian network segment, Russian experts told Kommersant business daily.
Earlier this month, Russian lawmakers proposed several draft law initiatives to regulate...
More than 13% of Russia’s population currently makes use of digital coins on a regular basis for online purchases, a poll ordered by internet security company Kaspersky Lab has revealed, according to KryptoMoney.
The poll was conducted among 924 residents of the Russian Federation on the eve of the Christmas...
U.S.-based tech giant Google has chosen not to dispute a $7,300 fine imposed by the Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor, the company’s press service told Sputnik news agency.
The company was fined this month for failure to comply with Russian laws on deletion of links to resources banned in Russia from search results
"We can...
The draft law on Russia’s “sovereign Internet”, when implemented, will create risks of disrupting the work of Russian domains and excessively expand the powers of state censor Roskomnadzor to directly manage the communications industry, analysts from the Expert Council under the Russian government told Kommersant.
In order to compensate for the...
American tech start-up OneWeb, which plans to bring an affordable internet to the world using satellites, has offered to sell a minority stake in the project to the Russian government in order to assuage the country’s fears of the project, Reuters reports.
Russia’s federal security service (FSB) had previously expressed concerns that...
A team of researchers from Russia and China in collaboration with an industrial partner has managed to increase the standard battery's energy capacity by 15%, Eurekalert.org reported.
The results were demonstrated last month at the Advanced Batteries for XEV / ESS Conference scientific conference in Qingdao, China.
Lithium-ion batteries...
Russian lawmakers have proposed a bill under which Russia will abandon the global World Wide Web under the pretext of national security, Gazeta.ru reports.
The country would switch to the use of its own domain name system and Internet traffic routing, where only Russian websites will work, says the draft...
The family of a former Russian first deputy prime minister owns a Dubai villa worth about $8 million, according to a private database of the emirate’s real estate, an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reveals.
According to the report, relatives of Igor Shuvalov, who...
Russia’s state-owned lender Sberbank and San Francisco-based accelerator 500 Startups have chosen the first 30 promising Russian IT startups as part of a partnership between the two companies, VC.ru reported.
The accelerator program, a first for Russia, was announced in early September. It is inviting applications from startups in a...
Russian engineering and construction company Telecor is building a new data and mining center in the town of Krasnokamensk near Russia’s borders with China and Mongolia, the company said in a statement.
The facility, called Redstone and is currently under construction, “will become a new home for digital currency miners...
