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Sberbank to acquire large stake in online media group Rambler

April 24, 2019

Sberbank, Russia’s state-controlled financial giant, is to acquire a 46.5% stake in Rambler Group, a major online media and entertainment group. The deal gives Sberbank equal stake to investment holding company A&NN, which is affiliated to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, while Era Capital owns the remaining 7%. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, …

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Steel magnate Alexey Mordashov buys a Moscow startup that helps people adopt healthier lifestyle

July 30, 2019

Severgroup, a group of companies controlled by steel magnate Alexey Mordashov, has acquired GetLean, a Moscow-based startup providing courses for healthier food and lifestyle. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Founded by Yulia Gurbanova in 2016, the young company has a team of 10 people, including three full-time employees.  Its “science-based” 12-week …

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How advocacy group Roskomsvoboda emerged in Russia to combat Internet censorship

April 19, 2019

In the last seven years, the Russian government has drastically tightened its regulation of the Internet, and it has shown no signs of slowing down: on April 16, the State Duma passed a new law enabling the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet from the World Wide Web. Opposition to the government’s onslaught …

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Anti-Putin graffiti triggers first enforcement of new Internet censorship law

April 3, 2019

The Prosecutor General’s office has reportedly requested Roskomnadzor, the Internet regulator, to take steps to delete online news stories about graffiti that used offensive language to describe President Vladimir Putin. The authorities thus applied for the first time a new law that penalizes online expressions of “contempt” for society, state symbols and the authorities. On …

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Russian authorities demand that VPN services comply with censorship policies

April 1, 2019

Roskomnadzor, the agency responsible for communications regulation and censorship in Russia, announced today that it contacted a number of VPN services to request that they subscribe to the agency’s registry of websites that are banned from distribution on Russian territory. Though Roskomnadzor has blocked VPN services before and asked Internet service providers to comply with its registry of blocked …

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Putin signs controversial laws against “unreliable information” and “contempt” for society and state authorities

March 19, 2019

Yesterday President Putin signed two controversial laws which may have a significant impact on Internet information in Russia. Containing a series of amendments to Article 153 of the Federal Law On Information, Information Technology and Protection of Information, the first law provides the authorities with larger legal grounds to combat what they may consider to be fake news. Said amendments …

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Russian YouTube channel creates homemade copies of iconic Hollywood and TV trailers

March 15, 2019

For the past six months, a little-known YouTube channel called Studio 188 has been publishing homemade, low-budget versions of major Hollywood trailers and television intros – from Spiderman, to Batman, to Game of Thrones and others. Relying on household items like socks, sausages, and cellophane, and sometimes an application of face paint that would get them fired from American …

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Two Moscow online reputation agencies secure $3 million for R&D and M&A purposes

March 8, 2019

Online reputation management agencies Sidorin Lab and Reputation Lab have attracted $3 million in equity funding from a pool of individual investors in exchange for a 30% stake in each company. Among these investors is Anton Alikov, a partner at Switzerland-based Blackfort Capital. The fresh funding will be used for business development and software development purposes. …

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Midemlab contest: A call to Eastern European music startups (application deadline: March 20)

February 19, 2019

The 12th edition of Midemlab, the leading international music startup competition, will take place on June 4-7, 2019 in Cannes, France, in partnership with East-West Digital News. Russian startups are welcome to participate. This is an opportunity for them – as well as for projects from other CEE countries – to find new business partners, raise funding, …

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CrunchBase and EWDN team up to cover regional tech and venture trends

February 13, 2019

CrunchBase has teamed up with East-West Digital News to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia and neighboring countries of the former Soviet Union. Starting from now, EWDN chief editor Adrien Henni publishes a monthly column in this famous industry resource, highlighting the most notable deals as well as promising tech innovations from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus …

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Google agrees with Russian authorities to filter censored content

February 11, 2019

Google has “established a constructive dialogue” with Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, to delete from search results websites that are banned in Russia, the Russian media reported, citing the Roskomnadzor press office. While refusing to connect to Federal State Information System (FGIS), Roskomnadzor’s registry of banned sites, the US company began deleting blacklisted links …

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