According to Maria Pogrebets, spokesperson for the Drom auto site, sales of new electric cars in Russia climbed fivefold in the first nine months of 2021 compared to the same time last year. She claims that sales of secondhand electric cars surged by 58% over the same time period,...
American tech giant Oracle has tightened the terms for providing products and services to Russian customers from the oil and gas industry included in the U.S. sanctions list, Kommersant reports.
Since January 29, Oracle has ceased new transactions with the oil and gas companies and banned extensions, modifications and renewals of...
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...
Social media giants such as Facebook and Google will have to decisively step up their efforts to tackle the spread of fake news online in six months or potentially face further regulation from the European Union, a new law proposed in Brussels suggests.
According to the document proposed by the European...
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...
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...
Cybercriminal experts have discovered a phishing operation designed to infect victims with a malicious backdoor, using command-and-control domains that intentionally spoofed the real-life domains of various Russian critical infrastructure firms, experts at U.S. software company Cylance have revealed in a blog post.
At first glance, the campaign’s focus on critical infrastructure...
Chinese tech giant Huawei has signed a deal with Russian telecoms company MTS to develop a 5G network in the country over the next year, BBC News reported.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow....
China’s telecom major Huawei plans to significantly increase its sales in Russia and has contacted several Russian tech firms to create joint ventures and use their technologies, RBC reported on Wednesday citing sources.
Over the past few months, Huawei has contacted several Russian firms, including the developers of Elbrus processors...
An unmanned rocket carrying Russia’s life-size humanoid robot Fyodor was sent into space on Thursday to spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), TASS news agency reported.
Officially called “Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research” with identification number Skybot F850, the robot nicknamed Fyodor is the...
