AddVenture, a major Russian venture fund, has led a round of funding of “more than $1 million” to support Pravoved.ru, a huge Russian legal consulting platform. The transaction has valued the company at $10 million, reports Forbes.ru, citing exchanges with Pravoved.ru and AddVenture. A part of the funding will be used to complete the development of Pravoved’s …
Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, received more than 118,000 reports of illegal online content this year, the agency said earlier this month. In the first six months of 2017, the watchdog received roughly 39,000 complaints related to drugs and drug use and a similar number of notifications flagging illegal games online. Other categories included child …
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The Russian Communications Ministry has inspired draft amendments to the telecom legislation, aiming to limit foreign ownership over Internet exchange points to 20%. According to these amendments, domestic ISPs would not be allowed to connect to exchange points that belong to other states, foreign companies or organizations, as well as foreign citizens or Russian nationals with dual citizenship. …
Following last weekend’s violence by far-right groups Charlottesville, a number of technology companies are taking steps to boot neo-Nazis and other hate groups off their services. Among them are security service provider Cloudflare and Internet domain registrar GoDaddy, which abruptly stopped serving the American neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The site sought a haven in Russia, but it was …
This past Tuesday Russia’s Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) appointed a new technical committee to work on the standardization of “the software and hardware of distributed register and Blockchain technologies.” “The standardization of Blockchain will allow these technologies to develop at a new level,” expects the agency, acknowledging that Blockchain technology is “actively …
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Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab stated yesterday it would end a lawsuit against Microsoft in Europe and Russia. The US company has agreed to change the way it uses its dominant position in the PC operating system market. “Microsoft has announced today that it is addressing the concerns we recently raised with select governing organizations in Russia …
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The legislation adopted last year in Russia to strengthen state control over digital communications is not fully compatible with the new EU regulation in the field of personal data protection, believe Russian experts interviewed by the business daily Vedomosti and East-West Digital News. Such a contradiction, if confirmed, would expose Russian mobile operators to considerable …
After exactly three years, Russian lawmakers have abandoned the government’s so-called “bloggers’ registry,” where popular bloggers were listed and theoretically subjected to more stringent media regulations, report the Russian media. According to a law passed in 2014, Russia’s telecom regulator Roskomnadzor has added several hundred mass media accounts, online communities, and public figures to the registry, …
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A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion for people involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking. Alexander Vinnik was arrested in a small beachside village in northern Greece on Tuesday, according to local …
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On July 21, the members of the Russian State Duma approved in the third reading three bills to regulate Internet and telecom services in Russia. After the almost unanimous vote of Russia’s senators today, the laws are now pending approval by President Putin. [Update: The President signed the laws on July 30.] No more access to …
After the birth of a child, a young mother needs to be in touch with a doctor practically all the time — to seek help in an emergency, for advice about the health of the baby, or even psychological support. One couple, who found themselves in a situation where they desperately needed assistance with their child, …
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New US sanctions put in place by former President Barack Obama last December — part of a broad suite of actions taken in response to Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election — made it a crime for American companies to have any business relationship with Russia’s FSB, or Federal Security Service. However, US technology …
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