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Meet Vladimir Putin’s new Internet advisor German Klimenko

February 7, 2016

German Klimenko has officially agreed to become Vladimir Putin’s advisor on the Internet. Within a few days of accepting this responsibility, Klimenko managed to grant several interviews to the Russian media, including a pair of particularly noteworthy conversations with the independent outlets Dozhd and Vedomosti. Meduza, an independent-minded online publication, examines these interviews and summarizes …

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Yandex queries in review 2015

February 7, 2016

Yandex research analysts recently released the list of the top 2015 queries for people, events, and phenomena in a number of categories. Not only does this list remind us what happened during the previous year but also what interested people the most. From the top movies of the year to the top searches for people, …

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Kaspersky Lab to help China address cyber threats

February 7, 2016

Russia’s Kaspersky Lab and China’s Zhongguo Wangan have signed a cooperation agreement during the second World Internet Conference, head of the Russian company, Evgeny Kaspersky told TASS on the fringes of the event. “China is paying much attention to cyber security and structures partnership with companies working in this sphere,” he said. “At the same …

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TMT Investments teams up with EBRD to back international stock photo platform Depositphotos

February 9, 2016

TMT Investments, an LSE-listed fund with Russian backers, is participating in a $5 million round of additional funding for its portfolio company Depositphotos. The round is led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which is investing via its Venture Capital Investment Programme. Agreed last month, the transaction will be completed until the end of the year. …

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TRData wants to be ‘Bloomberg for emerging markets’

December 16, 2015

TRData, a London-headquartered startup with a development team based in Ukraine and the majority of customers in Russia, makes for an interesting European tech story. The company, which has recently gone through 500 Startups’ London ‘Distro Dojo’ growth hacking program, is building something akin to a “Bloomberg for emerging markets”. It offers traders access to real-time …

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Ukrainian band tops ranking of most popular YouTube music video in Russia

December 14, 2015

YouTube has released a list of the music videos that were most popular in Russia in 2015.  At over 41 million views, a song by Ukrainian band “Vremya i Steklo“is number one, far ahead of all its competitors. Following Vremya i Steklo in the ranking were the following videos: Polina Gagarina’s Eurovision song “A Million Voices“ (number 2 …

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Court orders Russian newspaper to give photoblogger free advertising, after stealing his work

November 30, 2015

An appeals court has approved a settlement agreement between photoblogger Ilya Varlamov and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, which was convicted of publishing 18 of Varlamov’s photographs without his permission. In accordance with the settlement, the newspaper must advertise Varlamov’s work on its website and the websites of its affiliates. Komsomolskaya Pravda has agreed to send 2 million visitors …

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Yandex launches “hyper-local weather forecasting” and “automated information agency”

February 9, 2016

Yandex announced yesterday the launch of ‘Meteum,’ a new machine learning-based technology for “hyper-local and super-accurate weather forecasting.” “This new technology collects a massive volume of data about past forecasts made by external providers like WRF or Foreca, and compares them with the historical weather conditions to figure out the difference between what was forecasted and what happened …

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Chyorny Yar, the village that nearly banned Wikipedia for 140 million Russians

February 9, 2016

In July 2015, a local court in Chyorny Yar issued a countrywide ban on a Wikipedia article about charas hashish, leading to a small crisis in August, where the world’s largest encyclopedia nearly became inaccessible to more than 140 million Russians. In a special report for Novaya Gazeta, photographer Evgeny Feldman went to Chyorny Yar to capture life in …

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IIDF launches Big Data investment program

December 26, 2018

The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), Russia’s largest seed and early stage venture fund, intends to invest 500 million rubles (approximately $7.7 million at the current exchange rate) in Big Data projects. FRII will support a few dozen projects, taking into account the needs of large Russian corporations, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday, …

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Report: Mobile banking, online trading and POS terminals increasingly exposed to cybercrime

February 10, 2016

Group-IB, a Moscow-based cybercrime investigation company operating globally, has just published its 2015 report on cybercrime trends in Russian and beyond. Analyzing the situation in Russia and the former Soviet Union, Group-IB’s analysts expect the following trends to play out in the next six months: Mobile users are increasingly exposed to cybercrime  Following the growing penetration of mobile …

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Telegram is the “new hot thing among jihadists,” says cyber security expert

February 10, 2016

When ISIS terrorists want to hide what they’re saying, they are increasingly turning to an app called Telegram. It’s “the new hot thing among jihadists,” said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners. Telegram, an international instant messenger founded by Pavel Durov in 2013, boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be “faster and more …

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