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Russia to fine social media giants for keeping up pro-Navalny videos

January 28, 2021

Russia will fine seven social media companies for not removing pro-Navalny videos ahead of last Saturday’s nationwide protests, the country’s communications regulator said Wednesday. “Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and YouTube will be fined for non-compliance with requirements to prevent the dissemination of calls to minors to participate in unauthorized rallies,” Roskomnadzor said in …

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For Russians, Trump’s Twitter ban gets lost in translation

January 15, 2021

Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend Donald Trump’s account has met with a real furor on the part of Russia’s digitally-connected commentariat. For several days now, bloggers, journalists, politicians and just the concerned members of the Russian public have (for the most part) condemned the ban with the raging passion of those truly in the know.  …

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Russian hacker jailed in US for $19 million fraud

January 8, 2021

A Russian hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison Thursday for consumer data theft worth $19 million from 100 million customers of over a dozen financial service companies, the Justice Department said. Andrei Tyurin, 37, pleaded guilty in 2019 after his extradition from the country of Georgia the previous year, admitting to computer intrusion, wire fraud, …

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Telegram to launch pay-for services in 2021

January 6, 2021

Encrypted messaging app Telegram will launch pay-for services in 2021, its Russian-born founder Pavel Durov said Wednesday, as the growing company needed “at least a few hundred million dollars per year.” “Telegram will begin to generate revenue, starting next year,” Durov said in a statement. “We will be able to launch countless new features and welcome billions …

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Pro-Kremlin trolls invade TikTok as Chinese network gains massive popularity in Russia

December 21, 2020

This material is a shortened version of an article which appeared in The Moscow Times Whether you live in Moscow, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Delhi or Buenos Aires, chances are you still think TikTok is some kind of marginal Chinese social network where teenagers from all over the world dance and sing. Not anymore, it …

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Yandex launches food delivery robots

December 9, 2020

Russia’s Yandex has started using its self-driving robot to deliver fast food orders, the company announced Wednesday. The small six-wheeled autonomous robot — dubbed Yandex Rover — has started delivering orders from Yandex’s food delivery service, Yandex Eats, to customers in one of Moscow’s central business districts.  Just like a human courier, after an order …

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Viral ‘cyberpunk farm’ satirizes Russia’s agritech future

November 25, 2020

The latest viral sensation taking the Russian internet by storm is… a farm.  A fictional, futuristic “cyberpunk” farm, to be more specific. “Russian Cyberpunk Farm,” which imagines life at a provincial Russian village in a future dominated by tech corporations, has racked up more than 3.5 million views since it was published on YouTube last …

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Russia starts building $850 million high-speed arctic Internet

November 23, 2020

Russia has started building high-speed internet infrastructure in the Arctic to be used by large ports and oil and gas companies, the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency (Rosmorrechflot) announced Wednesday last week. The trans-Arctic underwater fiber optic cable will stretch across 10,000 kilometers from the northwestern port of Murmansk to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Rosmorrechflot partnered …

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‘Geek Teachers’ innovate Russian classrooms

November 16, 2020

Maria Plotkina and Arina Nuriahmetova were stressed young computer science teachers battling an entrenched system of learning when they decided to set up Geek Teachers to equip school teachers across Russia with the IT skills to bring the latest education technologies to the classroom. Four years later, their platform, which has over 13,000 online followers, …

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Soviet diehards and Covid-19 conspiracies: Inside Russia’s anti-5G movement

October 21, 2020

While often cited as a leading source of global disinformation, Russia has proven fertile ground for this Western-born conspiracy theory. Against a backdrop of uncertainty and fear over the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s social media has over the past 12 months experienced a boom in anti-5G content. Russia’s anti-5G movement is “first …

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