The cryptocurrency fever can push people to a variety of ill-advised steps. In Russia, a group of employees of a nuclear research center in Sarov were detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) for “unauthorized use” of the facility’s supercomputers to mine cryptocurrency. The news was reported last week by the online publication TJournal, which cited …
Russia may block access to YouTube and Instagram after billionaire Oleg Deripaska won a court injunction against videos and photographs that showed him and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko relaxing on a yacht with a woman described as an escort. As reported by Bloomberg, the Russian court has ordered the removal of 14 Instagram posts and seven YouTube videos that …
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A new telemedicine law came into effect on January 1, allowing Russian citizens to benefit from a range of e-healthcare services. Signed by President Vladimir Putin in July 2017, the legislation makes legal remote professional communication between doctors, as well as communications between doctors and patients or their legal representatives, as reported by the news …
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In 2014, Estonia launched a unique program to help non-EU entrepreneurs gain access to global markets. Based on the most recent data, Russians and Ukrainians are among the major users of it. Alexey Voronkov, currently the country manager for Ukraine, shared some statistics about the program as of January 30, 2018: The current total number …
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Messaging services in Russia have been banned from disclosing any cooperation with law enforcement agencies, according to a new government decree issued last month. The decree orders messengers to “ensure the non-disclosure of any information regarding specific facts and contents” when cooperating with the authorities, as reported by The Moscow Times. The messengers are also required …
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While the Russian government and the central bank are preparing to regulate cryptocurrencies and ICOs — with a draft bill expected to be ready by mid-2018 — notable divergences on the matter can still be observed among the concerned authorities. Thus Russian officials are wrestling with central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina to allow the trading of cryptocurrencies …
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Since this past July, Russian retailers have been required to use internet-connected registers which transmit sales data to the authorities to improve tax collection. But retailers were left counting the cost of a holiday-season glitch that may have caused billions of rubles in lost sales after the failure of some of these registers. “A retail nightmare came …
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A successful tech entrepreneur since the late 1990s, Dmitry Marinichev was apppointed Internet Ombudsman by President Putin in 2014. He is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and a member of the General Council of the Delovaya Rossia business association. In this exchange with EWDN Chief Editor Adrien …
Telegram, which staunchly refuses to surrender encryption keys for all user exchanges, has appealed to the United Nations for support in their dispute with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The instant messenger is represented by lawyers from Agora, a Russian human rights group, reports Meduza, a Russian and English language online publication based in Latvia. In a letter to David …
The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has approved the Yandex-Uber plan to merge their respective taxi service activity in the country. To ensure fair competition, the antimonopoly authority has requested the companies to “provide users with the most complete and accessible information of the legal person carrying out the transportation, with the preservation of the history …
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In a new proposal to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the federal government’s Project Activities Department is suggesting reforms to Russia’s law enforcement system that would introduce artificial intelligence, according to documents obtained by the newspaper Kommersant and cited by online publication Meduza.io. The new technology would be used at three stages: first, to identify obsolete and ineffective legal norms; …
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While the Russian government and the central bank are preparing to regulate cryptocurrencies and ICOs — with a draft bill expected to be ready by mid-2018 — the authorities have taken steps to limit cryptocurrency trading in the country. Thus yesterday Roskomnadzor, the Internet and telecom regulator, announced that it has blocked access to 13 …
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