Russia’s state telecommunications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, is taking action against U.S. tech giant Google for failing to exclude Russian-banned domains from search results, TASS news agency reports.
On Monday, the Roskomnadzor agency announced it had opened an administrative case against Google LLC over the western tech giant’s refusal to connect to...
A U.S. federal judge has ruled a Florida-based broadcasting company that provides Russian programs to a Washington radio station must register as an agent of a foreign government, RFE/RL reported.
In a press release Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department said that RM Broadcasting of Jupiter, Florida, was essentially providing publicity...
A bill introducing high administrative fines for incompliance with Russia’s data localization law entered the Russian State Duma this month, Interfax reported.
Proposed fines for first offense amount to 2,000,000 – 6,000,000 rubles (around US$30,000 – 90,000) for companies. Repeated offense by legal entities is punishable with fines in the...
Rostelecom Data Centres, a subsidiary of Russian digital service provider Rostelecom, has announced it has begun commercial operation of its major data centre facility in Udomlya, AIF.ru reports.
The construction of the data centre is a joint project between Rostelecom and nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom. The facility is located in...
The office of U.S. tech giant Apple in Russia has announced that the sales of its new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max will begin in Russia on September 20 with prices beginning from 59,999 rubles ($916), Lenta.ru reports.
"Customers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the...
The Russian Central Bank sees no obvious need to issue a national cryptocurrency, head of the regulator Elvira Nabiullina said at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies, TASS informs.
"As Russia’s Central Bank, we have been studying this topic and the need to issue a national cryptocurrency is not...
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has announced the creation of an Artificial Intelligence alliance including internet majors Yandex and Mail.ru, mobile operator MTS, oil company Gazprom Neft, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Vedomosti reported citing the lender’s CEO German Gref.
Sberbank is a digital innovation frontrunner and is already planning its...
Russia’s state-owned electric grid company Rosseti has launched a pilot for a blockchain solution by Waves Enterprise in retail payments, CoinTelegraph reports.
The trial aims to address discrepancies owing to meter reading errors, which result in non-payment of bills, Rosetti said. Waves claims that the total debt for electricity as of September 1,...
A former employee of Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank was arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary information from the holding’s telecom firm and giving it to Russian officials, the Japan Times reported Sunday.
Yutaka Araki, 48, is suspected of obtaining “trade secrets from a computer server at a telecommunication-related company on February 18 last...
The structure of the small business sector in Russia is changing gradually and becoming ever more high-tech-oriented, Vladimir Putin told TASS in the latest episode of a long-running interview series with the Russian President.
Putin stressed that in the 2000s nearly all of Russia’s small businesses were in retail trade,...
