Saturday, May 24, 2025
A new custody dispute between Moscow and Washington is on the horizon as police in Bulgaria arrested a Russian citizen wanted by U.S. authorities in connection with a federal cybercrime case, CNN reports. The man, identified by Russian media as Alexander Zh., 38, is being held pending extradition to the...
X5 Retail Group, Russia’s leading food retailer, is systematically approaching its quest for innovative new technologies, as the company believes future survival for all retailers will be determined by their successful adoption of new IT solutions, Essential Retail reports. “Within 10 years all companies will be technology companies. If they...
Russia’s second-largest mobile phone operator, Megafon, is suing the Hewlett Packard Enterprise over major outages on its cellular network, documents from a California court show, according to Reuters. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Jose Division last month. It alleges that HP's Russia...
A database of copyright infringing webpages and content in Russia is being established by the country’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor in a bid to tackle the chronical problem with piracy, Profile.ru reports. The agency will then encourage internet companies in the country to speedily remove links to offending sites from their search engines...
The head of Russia's State Duma Committee on Financial Markets has said that the institution is considering launching a state-owned virtual currency pegged to the Russian ruble, radio news station Govorit Moskva reported on Friday. Speaking at a press conference on the expansion of the household debt load, Chairman Anatoly Aksakov said...
Russia’s internet giant is considering securing control over the company by the management, Kommersant reports citing sources. According to the newspaper, Yandex is debating over a plan, according to which 60% of voting rights in Yandex would be transferred to a fund controlled by company founder and CEO Arkady Volozh and a...
Russian startup Bartini and engineers from Russia’s National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) in Moscow have successfully flight tested a prototype flying taxi, according to Moscow Evening News. The 5 x 5m (16 x16ft) EVTOL (electrical vertical take-off and landing) air taxi features ducted propellers that rotate perpendicular to the vehicle’s...
Russia’s 5G networks will cover 80 per cent of its population and support one in five of the country’s mobile connections by 2025, GSMA Intelligence (GSMAi) predicted in a report published last week, according to AP. The report, titled Mobile Economy: Russia and CIS 2018, released to coincide with the first...
The world’s biggest diamond producer, Russia’s Alrosa, has decided to join forces with its main competitor, De Beers, in order to utilize the Dutch company’s blockchain platform called Tracr. The Russian giant will use the blockchain to track diamonds, Coin Telegraph reports. At the moment, Alrosa and De Beers supply...
An American broadcasting company based in Florida is suing the Department of Justice for requiring that the media company register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), according to Newsweek. RM Broadcasting LLC, a company operating out of Jupiter, Florida, is required to sign up as...