On December 6, 2016, President Vladimir Putin ratified Russia’s new Information Security Doctrine to replace a document that was in force since September 2000. This official document defines the main sources of threats against Russia in cyberspace and offers solutions to deal with them. The document was part of Russia’s national security strategy, which was …
While travelling to Moscow, Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance hanged out with Dmitry Grishin, the co-founder of Mail.ru Group. Grishin — whom Bloomberg presents, with some exaggeration, as “the oligarch who built Russia’s Internet,” — recalled a few moments of his life since he was born in Kapustin Yar One, a top secret Soviet military city. The businessman …
Mail.ru Group co-founder Dmitry Grishin: “There’s no more a global Internet” Read More
Freedom House, a US-based NGO monitoring the progress or restriction of human freedoms as it perceives them around the globe, has published its most recent Freedom on the Net 2016 report, the sixth in its series. In its findings, the NGO assigns Russia the “not free” status, while the country was considered to be “partly free” and “relatively uncensored” …
Opera Software is to close its Russian subsidiary, leaving a staff of two in the country, down from 10 currently, the Russian media have reported. The move might be part of the company’s global strategy, in which emerging markets are now less of a priority than in the past, local representative Mikhail Zaitsev told business daily Vedomosti. In addition, Opera Software’s …
Opera Software closes its Russian office, receives censorship request from state regulator Read More
On Wednesday, following “press speculation,” the Russian Internet group Mail.ru Group and mobile operator MegaFon confirmed to be discussing potential commercial collaboration to “jointly develop new products and services in [Russia].” “Market dynamics and advances in technology have created favorable conditions for greater cooperation between telecom providers and digital media companies,” the companies note in …
MegaFon in discussions to acquire stake in Mail.ru Group, but no merger considered Read More
The Russian online economy reached 1.94 trillion rubles (roughly $31 billion at the average exchange rate) in 2015, according to “The Runet Economy,” a study released last month by the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). This amount is equal to 2.4% of Russia’s gross domestic product, slightly more (0.2 percentage points) than in 2014. Due …
Report: Russia’s online economy accounts for nearly 2.5% of GDP Read More
China, Iran, and others are known to regularly censor content and cut off sections of the internet. This is because, when the physical routes traffic takes are severely limited, it endangers the free flow of information the internet was supposed to provide. Researchers at Harvard attempted to identify these choke points, and determine how easily a …
How countries like China and Russia are able to control the Internet Read More
Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work — after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and …
Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian founder of the global software security firm, insists he is non-partisan in a new Cold War that increasingly utilises cyberwarfare to interfere with national politics. In an interview with bne IntelliNews, Kaspersky says allegations that Russia was behind a recent attempt to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s bid for the US presidency was …
Russian tech billionaire Kaspersky caught in cyber Cold War crossfire Read More
BlaBlaCar, the Paris-based global ridesharing giant, will now take a fee from passengers for every booking in Russia and neighboring countries. Since the company launched in the area in 2014, passengers had enjoyed free access to book their trips. They only had to pay cash to the driver to share riding costs. Blablacar says that its approach is to …
As we all know, a new craze can have an impact on users’ online activity but for the most part our modern day Internet users spend a good portion of their time accessing their email, using search engines, and browsing social media. Russian users spend their time online like most others on the web. Russia’s …
Russia’s second most popular social network, Odnoklassniki.ru (Russian for “Classmates”), owned by Mail.Ru Group, has expanded to China, Iran, Iraq and Macao, Izvestia reported last week. On August 31, the network’s new Android app was launched under the OK.RU brand in these countries, the Russian newspaper learned from unnamed sources close to the company. When …
Mail.ru Group launches social network and online games in Asia Read More
