Internet

Russia’s prosecutor writes to Apple and Google CEOs, foreign affairs ministry summons US ambassador over “election interference”

September 18, 2021

In the run-up to Russia’s Sept. 17-19 parliamentary elections, as the authorities have been purging the field of almost all genuine opposition politicians, the battle against dissent is also raging online. In recent weeks, among other measures, the authorities barred dozens of websites linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, including his main website navalny.com. They had Yandex …

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Russia blocks Navalny’s mirror site using Internet isolation tools – but not yet his ‘Smart Vote’ site

July 29, 2021

Russian authorities have blocked jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s mirror website using the tools that help telecom providers “isolate” Russia’s section of the internet, The Moscow Times reports, citing privacy NGO Roskomsvoboda. Navalny rolled out the website navalny.app after authorities blocked his main website navalny.com alongside nearly 50 sites linked to him Monday because of “banned extremist …

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Mapping the routes of the Internet for geopolitics: The case of Eastern Ukraine

May 19, 2021

A team of French and US researchers has just published a paper about the geopolitical significance of data routing, through the analysis of Eastern Ukraine. Their paper proposes “new methodologies to understand and represent the new forms of power rivalries and imbalances that occur within the lower layers of cyberspace.” “We [selected] Eastern Ukraine as …

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At 1.6% of net salary, Russia ranks 18th in Europe for broadband Internet expense

April 20, 2021

AddictiveTips.com, an online resource on apps, phone and the web, has calculated the cost of broadband Internet relative to users’ income across 37 European countries. Price data came from Cable.co.uk and salary data from Numbeo.  Russia ranks 18th as the average broadband expense in this country (€75.65 per year, €6.30 per month) accounts for 1.6% of Russians’ net salary (€4,497 per year, €375 per month).  …

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Yandex Browser translates texts in images from 47 languages

April 19, 2021

Last week Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian digital giant, announced a novelty in the field of image-to-text and automated translation technologies. Its browser, Yandex Browser, is now capable of translating text embedded within images “from 47 languages,” says the company, touting the feature as a world’s first for a desktop browser.  “Now users can easily translate and read [an] image that contain text …

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Russia starts building $850 million high-speed arctic Internet

November 23, 2020

Russia has started building high-speed internet infrastructure in the Arctic to be used by large ports and oil and gas companies, the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency (Rosmorrechflot) announced Wednesday last week. The trans-Arctic underwater fiber optic cable will stretch across 10,000 kilometers from the northwestern port of Murmansk to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Rosmorrechflot partnered …

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Twice as expensive as Elon Musk’s Starlink, Russia’s satellite Internet project still awaits state funding

November 17, 2020

Russia has plans to develop its own cluster of at least 500 “next-generation, multi-spectrum satellites,” starting from next year. Dubbed ’Sfera,’ the program aims to provide high-speed Internet access and communications — particularly, along the Northern Sea Route — similarly to Starlink, a project developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.  Under plans, the first satellites could be …

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Russian government wants to ban latest encryption technologies

September 22, 2020

Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media wants to ban websites from using the latest encryption technologies, to make it easier for Russia’s Internet and telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block access to Russian Internet resources containing prohibited content. Experts point out that a number of large Internet companies, including the Russian Internet giant …

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Report: Russia ranks 42nd for ‘digital qualify of life’

August 25, 2020

VPN provider Surfshark has issued a research on the “digital quality of life” (DQL) across 85 countries of the world.  Revealing the factors that “have the greatest impact on digital well-being,” the study says which areas should be “prioritized to improve the potential” of a country.  The countries covered account for 6.3 billion people, or 81% of the …

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