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Sputnik, a Moscow-based media agency with modern multimedia centers in dozens of countries, points the way to a multipolar world that respects every country’s national interests, culture, history and traditions. The agency is uniquely positioned as a provider of alternative news content and a radio broadcaster. Sputnik’s broadcasting is entirely geared toward foreign audiences, producing its own multimedia content and broadcasts in: Russian, Abkhaz, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Crimean Tatar, Dari, English, Estonian, French, Finnish, German, Georgian, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Moldavian, Polish, Portuguese, Pashto, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish, Tajik, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Japanese.

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Russian home-grown computer poised to ease dependence on industry heavyweights

November 2, 2018

Russia’s drive toward technology-related import substitution is gaining steam, with dozens of companies from Zelenograd to Novosibirsk represented at this year’s ChipEXPO, offering innovations in areas from smart self-driving vehicle technology to dual-use circuit boards and processors to smartcard micro-controllers. The Russian online publication Sputnik got a chance to check out some of the hottest …

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Russian, Saudi Arabian and Australian scientists release new software to radically improve oil extraction efficiency

March 15, 2018

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University have developed a software that calculates the permeability of 3D models of geological formations. The program, designed with support from Saudi Arabian and Australian research institutions, allows for a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of the exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits. . The software takes …

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Kaspersky Lab Checks WikiLeaks’ data on vulnerabilities

March 21, 2017

Earlier this month WikiLeaks published over 8,700 classified CIA-related files. The documents contained information that it was possible to “write a reliable exploit” for the company’s anti-virus software “without any real effort” and that Kaspersky Lab had not fixed vulnerabilities revealed during a hacking conference in 2014. “Kaspersky Lab is thoroughly studying the report published on WikiLeaks on March 7, 2017 in order to make …

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China and Russia launch high-speed train projects across Eurasia to foster economic integration

February 11, 2017

Last year Russian Railways announced that China agreed to provide a 400 billion-ruble ($6.2 billion) loan to build a high-speed rail project between Moscow and Kazan, a city 800km east of the Russian capital. According to Russian news agency Sputnik, which cites The China Daily newspaper, this project is scheduled for completion in 2020. The trains will be able …

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Russian and American scientists create ‘smart material’

February 11, 2017

An international group of scientists consisting of Russian and American experts has presented the first one-dimensional semiconducting material in the world. This material is based on the chemical compound Ta2Pd3Se8 (tantalum-palladium-selenium) and another compound called Ta2Pt3Se8 (tantalum-platinum-selenium) obtained from a Ta-Pd(Pt)-Se crystal using a micro-mechanical cleavage technique. This crystal was first synthesized over 30 years …

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Red scare: Military analyst muses over Musk’s fear of ‘Russian assassins’

May 3, 2016

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is known for being a bit eccentric. Last year, he blew up the internet when he told a Bloomberg reporter that he would like to die on Mars, but that his family “fears Russia will assassinate me [first].” Contemplating the prospects for a heated competition between Roscosmos and private US aerospace …

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