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After Magomedov and Usmanov, Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman invests in Uber

February 13, 2016 June 9, 2020

International investment group LetterOne (L1) has just announced that it has made a “strategic investment”of $200 million in Uber. Mikhail Fridman, the chairman of the group, is the third Russian billionaire in a row to invest in the US company, following the moves of Ziyavudin Magomedov and Alisher Usmanov last year. “I’m excited by our strategic partnership with …

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Russian military reveals plan for global ‘cyberwarfare non-aggression pact’

February 12, 2016 January 31, 2017

Last week a top Russian military official revealed plans for a United Nations-backed plan to ban cyberwarfare attacks in peacetime between all leading powers. “The first step in this direction will be the signing of the Electronic Non-Aggression Pact, which will be signed under the auspices of the UN,” Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Russian …

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Russia’s top websites and mobile apps

February 11, 2016 February 11, 2016

Russian Search Marketing begins a blog series to update advertisers and webmasters on other relevant information on the status of the Russian Internet. This blog covers the top Russian websites and app downloads by platform. The Russian Internet is very unique in comparison to most countries when it comes to some of the world’s top …

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Top cybercrime ring disrupted as authorities raid Moscow offices

February 9, 2016 February 9, 2016

Russian authorities in November raided offices associated with a Moscow film distribution and production company as part of a crackdown on one of the world’s most notorious financial hacking operations, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Cybersecurity experts said a password-stealing software program known as Dyre — believed to be responsible for …

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With 84 million users, Russia’s Internet penetration rate has nearly doubled in five years

February 8, 2016 February 8, 2016

Russia, which lagged far behind most other European countries in terms of Internet penetration in the recent past (with a 37% penetration rate in 2010), has been catching up rapidly over the past few years. In late 2015, according to a GfK poll, Internet penetration exceeded 70%, with 84 million Russians aged 16 or more — up 4 …

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From London, to Prague, to Tel Aviv, Russian money still fuels international startups

February 5, 2016 February 9, 2016

Confirming a trend which started years ago and continued all along 2015, several venture funds with Russian backers or managers invested abroad last month, with half a dozen significant deals made public. Thus AltaIR Capital, LETA Capital and Maxfield Capital took part in a $1.2 million seed funding round for Tel Aviv-based startup Viisights. The round was led by Israeli early-stage fund The Time. …

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Chechen leader complains about censorship by Instagram

February 4, 2016 February 7, 2016

The head of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov, accuses Instagram of censoring his free speech. He says the social network deleted a post he directed at Russia’s political opposition. “Here is America’s vaunted freedom of speech! You can write what you want, but don’t touch America’s henchmen or friends of the State Department and Congress. …

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Putin supports introducing sales tax on foreign Internet companies

February 1, 2016 February 7, 2016

Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to develop legislative amendments that will provide “more equal working conditions” among Internet companies in Russia. The executive order is addressed to several branches of the state: the Anti-Monopoly Service, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, …

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2015 in review: 10 search trends shared by Russians and Americans

January 30, 2016 January 31, 2016

East-West Digital News reviews the most important developments on the Russian high-tech scene in 2015. Today’s article, which was provided by Russian Search Marketing, highlights unexpected similarities in search trends in Russia and the United States. Last year Russian Search Marketing compared the 2014 search trends of Russians and Americans, noting the data that showed the similarities among users of two …

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2015 in review: The Russian Internet was less free than ever

January 29, 2016 February 7, 2016

East-West Digital News reviews the most important developments on the Russian high-tech scene in 2015. Today’s article analyzes the growing restrictions on online freedom in a country where the Internet was once considered to be relatively free. 2015 was marked by expanding restrictions and controversies around several Internet-related issues. In January, the authorities banned several bitcoin websites. However, following an appeal filed …

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Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg backs US online media group Gawker ahead of costly lawsuit

January 28, 2016 February 7, 2016

Columbus Nova Technology Partners, a California-based venture fund controlled by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, is to acquire a minority stake in Gawker Media. The amount and the terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. As its founder Nick Denton admitted in an internal memo, Gawker Media needed to strengthen its financial reserves as it is preparing for a …

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Russian torrents website strips copyright holders of their rights

January 26, 2016 February 7, 2016

Rutracker.org, the world’s largest Russian-language torrents website, has deprived copyright holders of the ability to delete illegal downloads, the IT-website Roem.Ru reported Tuesday. “It has been announced officially (…) that all CNA-accounts [which granted copyright holders the authority to delete links to illegal downloads] have been switched to regular user mode,” Oleg Yashin from the intellectual …

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