The crown jewel of Moscow’s business district, a 97-story glass tower known alternately as Federation Tower East or Vostok, is a tribute to Russia’s post-Soviet economic influence and national strength. Promotional materials for the building, which was the tallest in Europe when it was completed in 2017 and is now number 2, boast of its …
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Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer at Google’s YouTube, said the internet giant still holds free speech as a “core value,” in the company’s first public comments since it acceded to a Russian government order to remove material from political opponents. Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. pulled a voting app from opposition leader Alexey Navalny ahead of …
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Ozon, Russia’s second-biggest online retailer, sees the value of merchandise sold on its platform increasing tenfold by 2026 with the company aiming for control of a third of the country’s e-commerce market. The company is targeting annual GMV of 2.5 trillion rubles ($34 billion) in 2026, Chief Executive Officer Alexander Shulgin said in an …
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Dmitry Golovin, who leads the Moscow IT Department’s video surveillance division, has revealed during a forum called Security Technologies that 105,000 of the city’s security cameras are connected to a facial recognition system. Over the course of Russia’s New Year holidays, Golovin added, that system helped state officials arrest 34 individuals who had been wanted …
Officials in Moscow have spent the last few years methodically assembling one of the most comprehensive video-surveillance operations in the world. The public-private network of as many as 200,000 cameras records 1.5 billion hours of footage a year that can be accessed by 16,000 government employees, intelligence officers and law-enforcement personnel. Now the entire system …
The case of Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey is likely to overshadow US participation at the June St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), the Kremlin’s annual investor showcase, Alexis Rodzianko, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham), told reporters after a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. At the start of …
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While Facebook and Twitter are being exposed to administrative charges for non-compliance with Russia’s data localization law, Apple Inc. detailed the user data it is storing in Russia. Apple users in the region have data including their name, delivery address, email address and phone number stored on servers in Russia. The company said it collects …
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On November 26 Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, announced administrative charges against Google for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has also refused to connect to the federal information system where these websites are listed. For violating …
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In most countries, e-commerce is dominated by one or two behemoths, such as Amazon in the U.S. and Britain, Alibaba in China, and MercadoLibre in Brazil. In Russia, where the largest web store has less than 7% of the market, at least a half-dozen companies are in the running to become the king of online …
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Russia may block access to YouTube and Instagram after billionaire Oleg Deripaska won a court injunction against videos and photographs that showed him and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko relaxing on a yacht with a woman described as an escort. As reported by Bloomberg, the Russian court has ordered the removal of 14 Instagram posts and seven YouTube videos that …
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Nowhere did Tuesday’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket echo as powerfully as in Russia. The private U.S. company continues to produce technical feats on which the Russian space industry has given up: First the consistent reuse of rockets, and now the successful launch of a rocket with as many as 27 engines. The Soviet Union tried something similar …
Since this past July, Russian retailers have been required to use internet-connected registers which transmit sales data to the authorities to improve tax collection. But retailers were left counting the cost of a holiday-season glitch that may have caused billions of rubles in lost sales after the failure of some of these registers. “A retail nightmare came …
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