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US wins case to seize $300 million in alleged bribes by Russian telcos

February 17, 2016

The U.S. Justice Department has won the right to impound $300 million that it claims was paid in bribes by two major Russian telecoms firms to a close relative of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, news agency Bloomberg reported Friday. Justice Department officials claim that leading Russian mobile phone operator MTS and fellow telecoms giant VimpelCom …

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U.S. goes after $300 million in alleged bribes paid by Russian telecom giants

July 2, 2015

The U.S. has filed to seize $300 million that it claims was paid in bribes by two major Russian telecoms firms to a close relative of Uzbek President Islam Karimov in exchange for access to the Uzbek telecoms market, news agency Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department in a Manhattan …

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Ozon plans grab at Chinese trade in Russia

February 18, 2016

Russian online retailer Ozon will begin hosting merchants from China and Europe this year to tap booming cross-border trade, its chief executive said. Ozon, part owned by the Sistema conglomerate, also plans to make major investments in new warehouses in Russia’s regions to accelerate sales growth, Danny Perekalsky said in an interview at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “We are developing cross-border [trade] and want …

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Russia’s Yota working on dual-screen tablet

February 18, 2016

Russian electronics firm Yota Devices has created a new tablet device, Sergei Chemezov, the head of state technology holding Rostec, told newspaper Vedomosti in an interview published Monday. “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it,” Chemezov said, adding that one of the Yota Tablet’s novel features is the ability to charge a YotaPhone smartphone. Rostec, a massive state conglomerate heavily invested in the …

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US social networks, blogs allowed back into Crimea

June 8, 2015

The United States on Friday announced that U.S. companies can still give users in Crimea access to a range of free online communications services, despite an earlier U.S. ban on providing any services to the region after it was annexed by Russia last year. The decision will allow U.S. Internet companies such as Apple and Google — who previously announced that they were cutting off service to Crimea — …

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Russian regulator to stop Apple and Google from selling Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

September 2, 2015

Russian prosecutors have demanded that the country’s media watchdog block access to sections of Apple’s App Store and Google Play that allow Russian users to download the works of Adolf Hitler and Islamic writer Sa’id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the Izvestia newspaper reported Thursday. The move follows months of bluster by the watchdog, Roskomnadzor, over the hawking of “extremist” material to Russians by foreign Internet companies. But this time the threat …

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Russia starts blocking websites selling banned Western food

May 16, 2015

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has blocked access to three websites selling imported food as it strengthens control over the illegal sale of select Western goods sanctioned by Russia, newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. The blocked websites sold banned cheeses, according to news website Lenta.ru. Prosecutors have also filed lawsuits against four more online shops that sell …

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Russia’s best Twitter parody accounts

February 24, 2016

Twitter has blocked a satirical account ridiculing Igor Sechin, the powerful head of state-owned Russian oil giant Rosneft and a long time confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The account, @Igor_Sechin, was blocked inside Russia after the state media watchdog Roskomnadzor complained to Twitter that it violated Russian privacy laws. Frequently obscene and ferociously critical of the Kremlin, @Igor_Sechin is among a handful of popular Russian-language Twitter parody …

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Russia surges ahead of BRICS rivals in IT ranking

February 25, 2016

Russia has risen nine places this year in a global ranking of countries’ exploitation of information and communication technologies, but remains hobbled by frail institutions, a report by the World Economic Forum showed. Russia now stands in 43rd place out of the 143 economies surveyed in the forum’s Networked Readiness Index (NRI), making it far and away the leader among the BRICS group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, …

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US sanctions block Crimeans from World of Warcraft, Diablo III

February 25, 2016

Crimean gamers were locked out of playing popular online multiplayer games World of Warcraft and Diablo III last week, as the game publisher was forced to suspend the accounts in compliance with Western sanctions. Major US Internet and tech companies such as Apple, Google and PayPal have suspended services to Crimean users over the last year. The United States in December barred US-registered companies from investing in Crimea or providing …

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Yandex trims staff amid economic crisis

February 25, 2016

Russian Internet firm Yandex will reduce its staff by 3 percent and slash hiring as the country’s economic crisis forces the company to optimize its operations and expenses, a spokesperson for the company said earlier this month. Around 170 people will be laid off as part of cuts, Yandex spokeswoman Asya Melkumova told The Moscow Times. While this figure is lower than the 750 fired last year …

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Putin spokesman dismisses theory Russians hacked into White House

February 25, 2016

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov scoffed at a CNN report that claimed Russian hackers may have breached the White House’s computer system and accessed sensitive information pertaining to U.S. President Barack Obama, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday. “We know that blaming Russia for everything has turned into a sport,” Peskov told journalists when asked …

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