Russian consumers will be able to buy the newly unveiled iPhone 14 in Russia despite Apple’s exit from the market over the invasion of Ukraine, a government minister said Thursday. “If consumers want to buy these phones, you’re welcome. They will have that chance,” Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told state-run RIA Novosti news agency. Apple … Russian minister promises iPhone 14 imports Read More Read more ›
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According to the latest release of Atlas VPN’s Global VPN Adoption Index, downloads of virtual private networks (VPN) reached 215 million in the first half of 2022. Russia recorded the most significant shift, with nearly 35 million downloads of VPN services in said period. While Russians had only made only 12.5 million downloads during the previous year, … 35 million Russians downloaded VPN applications in H1 2022 Read More Read more ›
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According to a report published last week by US publication Business Insider, a range of western tech firms are users of FindFace, a controversial face recognition technology developed by Russian startup Ntech Lab. FindFace matches faces against social media accounts, regardless of privacy rights, among other facial recognition capabilities. Its approach is similar to that developed by US startup Clearview AI, which was recently … Business Insider: Western tech majors... Read more ›
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The Russian government intends to spend more than 30 billion rubles ($375 million at the pre-war exchange rate, $500 million at the current rate) on an R&D program to deploy 6G until 2025, reports business daily Kommersant. Skoltech and the Radio Research Institute could conduct the project, which will include the development of equipment prototypes as well as research on electromagnetic … From 4G to 6G: How next-gen mobile networks... Read more ›
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In the weeks and months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Zvartnots International Airport in Armenia’s capital Yerevan was flooded with Russians leaving their country, among them a growing number of tech workers. Fearing flight cancellations, exit bans, and border controls, many booked their tickets at exorbitant prices, wiped their phones, and arrived in the small country nestled in … Fleeing Putin, Russian tech workers find a home in Armenia Read More Read more ›
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The Russia-linked hacking group behind the infamous SolarWinds espionage campaign is now using Google Drive to stealthily deliver malware to its latest victims. That’s according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team, who said on Tuesday that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hacking unit — tracked as “Cloaked Ursa” by Unit 42 but more commonly known as … Russian hackers behind SolarWinds are now hiding... Read more ›
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Yandex publishes today its annual Sustainability Progress Report covering the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance results in 2021 and outlining key accomplishments within each of the sustainability priority areas. Yandex presented its full sustainability agenda in 2020. A number of streams, for example, cybersecurity, the quality of services and employee wellbeing, are closely aligned … From education to social and environmental responsibility: How Yandex pushed its sustainability agen Read more ›
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The Russian education technology sector has been growing fast over the past years, as witnessed by variety of solutions developed in the country. One of the latest examples is an immersive online-offline platform for remote courses, which was presented earlier this month by the Moscow State University Business School (MSUBS). Touting this solution as a … Moscow business school develops pioneering solution for remote courses Read More Read more ›
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All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russian online publication, in its English edition. While founder Arkady Volozh and head Tigran Khudaverdyan were sanctioned by the European Union, “compromises with the authorities have … How the war in Ukraine led Yandex into a trap Read More Read more ›
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The collaborationist government installed by Russian troops in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson announced on Wednesday that access to Instagram and YouTube is now blocked locally. Officials acknowledge, however, that the American social networks are still available through VPNs. Occupying forces in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions disabled mobile Internet service by Ukrainian telecoms back in late … Pro-Russian authority in Kherson cuts access to Instagram and YouTube Read More Read more ›
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Adwisely, a startup founded in Ukraine in 2018 — previously known as Retarget App — is making its way in Silicon Valley. Six months after moving there, it has just announced the completion of a $1.5 million round of funding led by London-based TMT Investments. Cabra VC, Gaingels, ICU Ventures, Mana Ventures, and a group of angel … Ukrainian, Russian and diversity investors team up in Silicon Valley to back... Read more ›
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Russia’s war on Ukraine and the subsequent western sanctions seem to have put the once-thriving Russian and Belarusian gaming industries in serious trouble. It took just weeks to Wargaming, the Belarusian-born, Cyprus-headquartered developer of World of Tanks and World of Warships, to react to the events unfolding in Ukraine. In early April, the company announced its decision to … Russian game developers hit by shockwave of war Read More Read more ›
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Russia’s war on Ukraine and the subsequent western sanctions seem to have put the once-thriving Russian and Belarusian gaming industries in serious trouble. It took just weeks to Wargaming, the Belarusian-born, Cyprus-headquartered developer of World of Tanks and World of Warships, to react to the events unfolding in Ukraine. In early April, the company announced its decision to … The shockwave of war: Gaming companies close Russian offices, move staff... Read more ›
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Earlier this month Rostec, a state corporation that comprises more than 700 enterprises in the fields of defense and technology, announced they have developed a blockchain platform to provide a “real alternative to SWIFT in international settlements.” Russian banks were excluded from the SWIFT system last February as part of the sanctions imposed by Western countries in response … Russia’s Rostec develops blockchain system as “real alternative” to SWIFT Read... Read more ›
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Deutsche Bank has relocated hundreds of its Russia-based IT specialists to Germany following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The Frankfurt-headquartered bank has relocated approximately half of its 1,500 highly skilled software developers based in Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as their families in the past three months, citing difficulties brought about … FT: Deutsche Bank moves hundreds of IT workers from Russia to Germany... Read more ›
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Weeks before tanks and soldiers marched on the cities of Ukraine, Russia carried out a series of successful cyberattacks against Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure and financial institutions around the country with at least six unique strains of destructive wiper malware. Recent reporting confirms Russia’s GRU also carried out a massive cyberattack against Viasat, knocking its customers’ KA-SAT satellite … How Russia’s war on Ukraine and Kyiv’s call for help sparked... Read more ›
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Russian writer and artist Pavel Pepperstein and generative neural network ruGPT-3 have co-authored a story book called Trying to Wake Up. The book has just been published in Moscow by independent publisher Individuum. Trying to Wake Up is touted as “the world’s first collection of short stories resulting from the collaboration of a writer and a neural … Russian writer and neural network team up to compose 24 short stories... Read more ›
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The decision of Visa and MasterCard in early March — followed by Chinese UnionCard — to back away from Russia has affected dozens of millions of card holders from this country. While Russia managed to keep their cards active for domestic transactions at least until they expire, Visa and MasterCard cards can no longer use … How Russia pushes MIR cards adoption in new countries Read More Read more ›
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In 2021 inDriver, a ride-hailing app founded in Yakutsk, Siberia, back in 2012, announced it had achieved unicorn status. Its valuation reached $1.23 billion, following a funding round of $150 million earlier that year. This startup seemed set to continue its rollout into new locations around the world, including plans to expand into Australia. In … Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia... Read more ›
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Just weeks after Yandex sold its news aggregation and online entertainment services, another key player of Russia’s online ecosystem, Sber, has deprived itself from important digital assets. A company called Novye Vozmozhnosti (New Possibilities) is the new owner of the music service SberZvuk (previously Zvooq.ru, acquired by Sber in Aprill 2021); the video streaming service Okko (aquired … Targeted by western sanctions, Sber has to part with key digital assets... Read more ›
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