Sports.ru is in the process of acquiring 90live.org, a Belorussian developer of mobile apps for football fans, reported Vedomosti earlier this month based on exchanges with the portal’s general manager Dmitry Navosha. The details of the transaction, which is not completed yet, have not been disclosed. Founded in Minsk in 2013, 90live.org has developed more than …
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Moments after the scheduled starting time, Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted this picture of the ExoMars mission’s successful start. The historical venture — a joint European and Russian project — had been creating a lot of buzz on social media all morning, with #ExoMars a trending topic on Twitter in many countries. And post-launch, Twitter …
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It was a throwaway comment, forgotten almost the minute it was written. Then again, Viktor Krasnov could hardly have predicted the trouble those three words —”God doesn’t exist” — would cause. He couldn’t have imagined that two VKontakte users would file a formal complaint to the authorities, claiming the comment “insulted” them; that police would show up at his apartment in the southern Russia …
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A Russian blogger has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, challenging the sentence he was handed for the republication of extremist texts online, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. Konstantin Zharinov, a blogger and activist from the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, was convicted in 2015 for sharing a post on …
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Moscow based fund Guard Capital has invested $4 million in DocDoc.ru, a startup that helps users find doctors and setup medical appointments across 15 Russian cities. The terms of the transactions have not been disclosed, but in an exchange with Rusbase.com, Guard Capital Investment Director Vladimir Grigorashenko indicated that the last tranche of the investment had been provided in …
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Last week the NATO Centre of excellence in Riga unveiled the results of research into what it claims is a “preparatory information war” in Latvia but with, it emerges, much wider repercussions. One project examined 200,000 comments posted on Latvia’s three main online news portals between 29 July and 5 August 2014. It found 1.45% of those …
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Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February, Pavel Durov looked like a man in control. Dressed all in black — a nod to the character of Neo in the film The Matrix — Durov strode across the stage assertively. Like Neo, he was a programmer on a mission. Durov had come to Barcelona to announce that Telegram, the encrypted messaging service, had gathered 100 million monthly users and was gaining an impressive 350,000 …
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VKontakte (VK), the leading social network in Russia and a property of LSE-listed Mail.ru Group, has won a legal battle against Universal Music and Warner Music. In two verdicts handed down on March 2 and 3, the Saint Petersburg & Leningradsky Region Appeal Court overturned an earlier ruling that VK must implement effective technology to stop infringements …
Russian Internet giant Mail.ru Group has topped a ranking of the most valuable companies operating in the Russian Internet segment for the first time, according to a rating released by the Russian version of Forbes magazine Monday. Mail.ru Group includes the mail.ru portal as well as the Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki social networks, and managed to …
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Yesterday Kaspersky Lab announced a partnership with big data analytics company SynerScope “to build a unique and innovative offering in the fight against fraud and financially based cybercrime.” This new offering will combine Kaspersky Lab’s fraud prevention solutions with SynerScope’s ultra-fast big data analytics technologies. The partnership will provide cybersecurity solutions, crisis response and anti-fraud …
The Russian government is planning to tightly control Internet traffic in the country. A parliamentary bill has been drafted by the Russian communications ministry, according to daily newspaper Vedomosti, which obtained official documents relating to the matter. The ministry’s plan calls for creating a government system to monitor Internet traffic routes along communication channels. It would track DNS servers and the assignment of IP addresses. Meanwhile, …
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Today Yandex, the Russian Internet search giant which is listed on the NASDAQ, announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2015. The key financial indicators (1)(2) look as follows: Yandex financial results Q4 and FY 2015 Commenting on the FY 2015 results, CEO Arkady Volozh stated: …
