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Adobe cuts its Russia staff by half and scales down piracy fight

March 14, 2014

Adobe has announced that it will no longer pursue criminal proceedings against illegal distributors of their software in Russia. This marks a significant change in strategy from the American company, which had previously actively fought against online-piracy. In 2012 Adobe was involved in 27% of the criminal proceedings related to copyright infringement, and in 2013 …

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26-year-old hacker responsible for massive DDoS-attacks sentenced in Russia

March 6, 2014

A man was sentenced to probation after being convicted for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as a result of Group-IB and the The Ministry of the Interior (MVD) collaboration work. Group-IB assisted in the investigation, collection, preservation and identification of digital evidence. The criminal business owner turned out to be a 26-year-old resident of …

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Telecom regulator blocks access to “terrorist” pro-Maidan social media content

March 4, 2014

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) announced yesterday that it has blocked access to 13 virtual communities of Ukrainian organizations on Vkontakte.ru (also known as VK.com), the leading Russian-language social network. “These communities promoted the activity of Ukrainian nationalist groups, including open calls for the …

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Vkontakte shareholder drama continues: UCP to sue Mail.ru Group and Ivan Tavrin

July 20, 2021

The Vkontakte shareholder drama saw new developments yesterday as United Capital Partners (UCP), which acquired a 48% stake in the social network last year, announced that it is suing the company’s two other shareholders in Russian and international jurisdictions. The Russian fund is accusing Mail.ru Group and Ivan Tavrin – who bought his 12% stake …

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Civil activists expose violations of Internet freedom across Russia

February 13, 2017

More than 1,800 instances of the government-led abuse of Russian Internet users’ rights for unrestricted access to web-based information last year were brought to light in a muckraking report issued last week by a Russian civil rights group. Agora, an interregional association of Russian civil rights NGOs set up in 2005 to bring together lawyers …

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Regulator fails to ban site offering satirical pro-gay “textbook for kids”

January 28, 2014

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, has judged it impossible at this stage to block access to Looo.ch, a website that offers a bilingual “Illustrated Textbook on Homosexuality for Kids” – a satire on homophobia in Russia and Ukraine. “If a boy with a boy is OK, then …

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Anti-piracy law is good, tech makes it better

December 16, 2013

When I moved to Russia, I was astonished by the pervasiveness of Internet piracy. Movies, music, software, books — everything was at my fingertips, free of charge and in the language of my choice. When my Russian friends learned that I pay for a Netflix account, they burst out laughing. Why, they asked, would I pay for something that is available for free? During my time in Russia, …

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Russian-language hitman services website offers “comprehensive beating” for $3,000

December 9, 2013

A Russian-language website, Zakazat-killera.com (“Hire a Killer”), is advertising services ranging from “physical elimination” to intimidation by taking targets for a “chat” in the woods. The site’s instigators present themselves as “an organization of kind, sincere, responsive people who can come to your aid if you need to take someone out into the woods and there nicely ‘tell him off’ or …

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Russian secret service advises government officials to balk at non-Russian webmail services

November 19, 2014

Keeping with their prior attempts to keep Westerners as far away as possible from Russians’ Internet activity, Russian secret service agents have recently advised regional government officials across Russia to use domestic webmail services and stay away from overseas ones, such as Google’s Gmail. The recommendation, still off the record, came earlier this month from …

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Vkontakte.ru fights off copyright claims

November 18, 2013

VKontakte.ru, Russia’s leading social network also known as VK.com, has recently won two cases brought against them for infringing the copyright of certain songs featured on their website. Experts are struggling to agree on whether or not the social network will be invulnerable to such claims in the future. Nikitin Digital Media Content lost a lawsuit …

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Government seeks to curb online alcohol retail

November 19, 2014

Rosalkogol, a government agency that oversees the sale of alcohol in Russia, is seeking permission to be able to blacklist Internet sites that sell alcoholic beverages online, which is in violation of current Russian legislation. If the Russian Cabinet approves the move, the regulator will have the power to engage Roskomnadzor, another federal agency that keeps …

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