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RuNet 2016: Pressure shifts from companies to citizens

February 7, 2016

A space beyond governmental control, the Internet has long been a thorn in the Kremlin’s side. The search for a solution began in 2012. Various tricks have been tried, from the introduction of internet filters and the updating of a national system of online surveillance known as SORM to the direct intimidation of Internet giants both domestic and international. By 2014 the Kremlin had came up with something akin to a strategy. Accustomed …

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Russian blogger sentenced to five years in prison for “extremist” posts

February 7, 2016

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a blogger to five years in jail for what it said was his extremist activity on the Internet after he urged people to attend a protest against high transport fares and criticised Russian intervention in Ukraine. Vadim Tyumenstev, 35, from the Siberian region of Tomsk, was also banned from using the Internet for three years in a case which Russian human rights activists said violated his …

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20 tons of black market smartphones seized at St. Petersburg airport

December 13, 2015

Russia’s Federal Security Service has seized 20 tons of black market smartphones at the Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg — an amount retailers said represented up to 30 percent of the city’s total smartphone sales in December, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday. The cargo — including 15,000 Lenovo A560 phones and 35,000 of Apple’s iPhones …

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Moscow metro Wi-Fi provider requests investigation into alleged terror threats

February 9, 2016

The company that provides free wireless Internet on the Moscow metro has asked law-enforcement agencies to look into users’ complaints that they were being redirected to a page with threats of terror attacks in the Russian capital when trying to use the Wi-Fi service, the TASS news agency reported Tuesday. Some subway passengers trying to …

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Russian MP proposal to block Telegram after Paris attacks garners little support

February 24, 2016

A proposal from State Duma Deputy Alexander Ageyev to block the instant messaging service Telegram in Russia following Friday’s terror attacks in Paris garnered little support on Monday. The instant messaging service was reportedly used by the terrorists. Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov said blocking the service because it was popular among Islamic State militants would be …

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Airbnb sees rapid growth in Russia amid recession

February 28, 2017

The online lodging service Airbnb has seen rapid growth in Russia as the country’s economic recession forces more Russians to look for ways to supplement their incomes, the Bloomberg news agency reported Tuesday. The Russian business of San Francisco-based Airbnb has doubled during the past year, propelling Moscow into the world’s top 10 cities with …

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Russian Orthodox church to launch own Wi-Fi network

February 10, 2016

Orthodox believers in the capital could soon get access to a special Wi-Fi network which will block inappropriate content, Moscow Patriarchate deputy speaker Roman Bogdasarov told Izvestia on Friday. The religious network will block access to online content deemed extremist, sectarian or pornographic, the report said. “Distorted historical facts,” would also be unavailable, the report said. …

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Online database of political repression victims launched in Russia

November 9, 2015

An Internet database of people who fell victim to the Soviet regime has been launched as Russia prepares to mark the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, the project’s editor Andrei Shalayev told The Moscow Times. Shalayev was inspired to start the project, titled Immortal Barracks, by a similar initiative earlier this year …

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Russian firm to create new cloud platform to rival Microsoft and Amazon

December 22, 2018

Russian software company Parallels has launched a project to develop a locally built cloud computing platform, the Kommersant newspaper reported Monday. The new cloud service, used to store data online, will challenge existing US platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Cloud, the paper reported, citing a video presentation of the project by Parallels. The move comes …

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H&M to open online store in Russia

February 12, 2016

Swedish clothing brand H&M said it would launch an online store in Russia this fall to boost already rising sales in the country. In a report of its results over the first 9 months of this year, Stockholm-based H&M said year-on-year sales in Russia had risen by 15 percent to 2.6 billion Swedish krona ($312 million). …

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Russian man pleads guilty to largest ever US cyber heist

February 14, 2016

A Russian man pleaded guilty last week to involvement in what authorities called the largest computer hacking scheme ever prosecuted in the United States, compromising more than 160 million credit card numbers and causing more than $300 million of losses. Vladimir Drinkman, 34, admitted to conspiring to illegally access computers and conspiring to commit wire …

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