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Russia fines Apple, Snapchat, Tinder, WhatsApp for data storage law violations

August 5, 2022

A Russian court fined U.S. tech giants WhatsApp, Snapchat and Tinder on Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users inside the country, as stipulated by the demanding local  legislation, U.S. company Meta, the owner of messaging service Whatsapp, was ordered by Moscow’s Tagansky District Court to pay 18 million rubles (nearly $300,000 at …

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From 4G to 6G: How Russia seeks to develop mobile networks amid shortages of domestic frequency and foreign equipment

August 5, 2022

The Russian government intends to spend more than 30 billion rubles ($375 million at the pre-war exchange rate, $500 million at the current rate) on an R&D program to deploy 6G until 2025, reports business daily Kommersant.  Skoltech and the Radio Research Institute could conduct the project, which will include the development of equipment prototypes as well as research on electromagnetic …

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Fleeing Putin, Russian tech workers find a home in Armenia

July 26, 2022

In the weeks and months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Zvartnots International Airport in Armenia’s capital Yerevan was flooded with Russians leaving their country, among them a growing number of tech workers. Fearing flight cancellations, exit bans, and border controls, many booked their tickets at exorbitant prices, wiped their phones, and arrived in the small country nestled in …

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Russian hackers behind SolarWinds are now hiding malware in Google Drive

July 20, 2022

The Russia-linked hacking group behind the infamous SolarWinds espionage campaign is now using Google Drive to stealthily deliver malware to its latest victims. That’s according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence team, who said on Tuesday that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hacking unit — tracked as “Cloaked Ursa” by Unit 42 but more commonly known as …

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Russia fines Apple for violating personal data law, Google for failing to remove “fake news”

August 4, 2022

On Monday Russia fined Google 21.1 billion rubles (some $263 million at the pre-war exchange rate, $360 million at the current rate) for repeatedly failing to remove prohibited content on its YouTube video platform. Censorship on the Russian Internet has been on the rise over the past few years, reaching totalitarian heights since the beginning …

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How the war in Ukraine led Yandex into a trap

August 5, 2022

All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russian online publication, in its English edition. While founder Arkady Volozh and head Tigran Khudaverdyan were sanctioned by the European Union, “compromises with the authorities have …

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US asks Japan to pressure crypto exchanges, miners working with Russia

July 11, 2022

The United States has urged Japan to put more pressure on cryptocurrency exchanges and mining companies that continue to work with Russians. The U.S. wants the Japanese entities to end their business relations with Russia, thus adding to its financial isolation from the rest of the world. The request, made by American diplomats, is targeting …

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Report: Lessons learned from cyber operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

July 12, 2022

What key lessons can we draw from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine about the role of cyber operations in military conflict? How do Russian cyber operations differ in wartime compared to peacetime activity? And what cyber activity can we expect in the months ahead?  On 30 May, the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI) …

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Pro-Russian authority in Kherson cuts access to Instagram and YouTube

July 7, 2022

The authority installed by occupying Russian troops in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson announced on Wednesday that access to Instagram and YouTube is now blocked locally. Officials acknowledge, however, that the American social networks are still available through VPNs. Occupying forces in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions disabled mobile Internet service by Ukrainian telecoms back in late …

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Ukrainian-founded startup Adwisely backed by diverse pool of investors in Silicon Valley

July 6, 2022

Adwisely, a startup founded in Ukraine in 2018 — previously known as Retarget App — is making its way in Silicon Valley. Six months after moving its headquarters there, with a team of Ukrainian pros distributed across the world, the company has just announced the completion of a $1.5 million round of funding. London-based TMT …

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Russian kicksharing service Whoosh raises $17 million in bonds

July 20, 2022

In late June Kicksharing service Whoosh raised 13.5 billion rubles in bonds (around $17 million at the pre-war exchange rate), making its debut on the Moscow stock exchange. Launched in 2019, the company is a market leader in Russia with 8 million claimed users across 45 Russian cities. Among Whoosh’s backers are Ultimate Capital Fund, …

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How Russian game developers have been hit by the shockwave of war

July 7, 2022

Russia’s war on Ukraine and the subsequent western sanctions seem to have put the once-thriving Russian and Belarusian gaming industries in serious trouble. It took just weeks to Wargaming, the Belarusian-born, Cyprus-headquartered developer of World of Tanks and World of Warships, to react to the events. In early April, the company announced its decision to “leave Belarus and …

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