Saturday, May 4, 2024
A three-man crew consisting of two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS), Space.com reported. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday has taken Americans Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Russian Oleg Artemyev to the...
Russia's top court has ruled on Tuesday that the Telegram messaging app can be forced to provide user data to security services, AP reports. Supreme Court Judge Alla Nazarova rejected an appeal filed by Telegram, objecting to Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB) obtaining the encryption keys to its platform. As a...
Russian internet security company Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software to spy on customers, internal company documents show. The move comes in response to actions in the United States, Britain, and Lithuania last year to stop...
Individuals and companies are increasingly trying to smuggle technology related to weapons and spy equipment out of the United States, The New York Times reports. According to the newspaper, the rate of recent attempts to ship those technologies to foreign adversaries, surpass similar attempts in the Cold War-era. In a recent case, a...
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency has drawn up measures to protect civilian airports from unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicles’ flights. Accordingly, any drones violating these rules would be forcibly grounded, Izvestya reported. The head of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko told the paper that the agency had developed...
The Russian government has once again suggested it is prepared to be cut off the global internet, with a presidential aide telling a local news network that it is "ready for anything." In an interview for RIA news agency, German Klimenko, Russian presidential aide on the internet, suggested that Western nations...
More than half a million PCs in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey came under attack from a new strain of malware attacking their Windows systems last week, Cointelegraph reported. This was an attack carried out by a cryptocurrency miner using the malware that spread rapidly to over 500,000 computers in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he "couldn't care less" if Russian citizens sought to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, insisting that the Kremlin had nothing to do with the efforts. "Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?" Putin asked in...
Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska has called U.S. accusations against Russia an “example of manipulation of public opinion”. In an article published in the American edition of conservative outlet The Daily Caller, Deripaska said “a Russian narrative" is used by a small number of people in Washington. "The ever-changing ‘Russian narrative’...
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed controversial orders imposing heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum - but some countries will be spared, The Wall Street Journal reported. Trump launched the global tariffs on steel and aluminum while signaling even more aggressive pressure on trading partners to come, especially against China. In...