Russia’s long-serving Soviet-era Proton launch vehicles will not be replaced by newer Angara systems until 2024, an industry official said at an aerospace conference in the city of Kazan, Engadget reports.
Yuri Koptev, Chairman of the Science and Engineering Board of the state-run corporation Rostec, said that Proton rockets will apparently...
About 236 orders were recently placed for Tesla cars in Russia, which, if fulfilled, would be about an 80% increase in the current number of the electric vehicle model in the country, Bloomberg reports.
The total fleet of Teslas in Russia is now approximately 300, even though there are no...
A local newspaper in Russia, Edinstvo Nizhnekamsk, was found guilty for breaching advertising norms by publishing cryptocurrency-related content. The publication will be liable to pay a fine for the breach, Crowdfund Insider reports.
The announcement read: “Investing in crypto-currencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash. Creating and setting up mining farms.”
The publication in question is alleged of...
Russia’s federal censor Roskomnadzor has asked Facebook to provide information about its data-sharing partnerships with mobile-device manufacturers, wherever these companies might have obtained users’ private information, Vedomosti reports.
"In order to clarify the situation, Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Facebook, back on June 5 2018, asking to inform it about...
One of Russia’s biggest internet companies, Mail.ru, has said it had no plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange, Reuters reports.
The company’s statement comes after Megafon, Russia’s No.2 mobile phone operator, announced plans earlier this month to delist its shares. The company is one of the most liquid Russian stocks...
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has been silently working on a "Do Not Buy" list of companies known to use the Chinese and Russian software in their products, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief confirmed at a press conference, according to Reuters.
Ellen Lord, the defense undersecretary for acquisition and...
Russian telecommunications major MTS has filed a case with a World Bank arbitration, demanding at least $750 million in compensation from Turkmenistan for the forced closure of its subsidiary, Reuters reports.
The Moscow-based company said in a July 27 statement that authorities in Turkmenistan acted in violation of international agreements...
The maximum amount of crude oil output that Russia can restore is 250,000 barrels per day (bpd), Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak has said, according to Platts.
As part of the recent decision by the OPEC-led coalition to increase production, Russia initially obliged to up the output by 200,000 bpd....
A scientist at one of Russia’s leading space research labs has been charged with state treason after a suspected leak of hypersonic missile secrets to the West, Newsweek reports.
Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIImash) employee Viktor Kudryavtsev, 74, was arrested last week after security services raided two...
A North Korean technology research and development company sanctioned by the United States is seeking to expand its business into the Russian Far East by disguising itself as a local company, sources close to the matter told Kyodo news agency on Saturday.
Korea Computer Center, a company based in Pyongyang,...
