The 27th edition of the Krynica Economic Forum, an important meetup for decision-makers in Central and Eastern Europe, will be held under the title “Project Europe: A Recipe for the Coming Decades” in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland in early September. Every year, this three-day event gathers together thousands of people — including prominent figures — from political, business, technology …
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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Russia has come out on top of a ranking of government requests to have online content removed or blocked, according to Google’s latest Transparency Report. Last year, the Russian authorities filed more than 13,000 requests with the search engine to have online content on Google platforms removed, including on YouTube. Compared to 2015, the number of requests …
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Over the past weeks, illustrating the growing ties between the two countries in the field of innovation, several Russian state-owned funds and banks have signed agreements with Chinese counterparts. The combined amounts of these programs, which are partly dedicated to high-tech projects, may exceed $12 billion. VEB-Harbin Bank The first of these partnerships, which was …
Russia and China announce new joint investment programs exceeding $12 billion Read More
Last week a delegation of the Moscow Agency of Innovations and the Moscow Export Center visited Paris as part of the city authorities’ strategy to develop ties with high tech hubs in other countries, with a focus on Western Europe. The Moscow representatives met top executives from key organizations of the French capital’s high-tech ecosystem. These …
Moscow and Paris seek to develop new ties in the field of technologies Read More
Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, has not found any potential US cyber-weapons in its systems after screening, the bank told Bloomberg and East-West Digital News today. However, Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chief executive in charge of cybersecurity, characterized such a threat as “theoretically possible” in Russian infrastructure. Kuznetsov’s comments come as an answer to recent reports …
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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 …
Despite hacking charges, US tech industry fought to keep ties to Russia spy service Read More
Last week Russian lawmakers in the State Duma unanimously adopted the first reading of legislation that would ban technologies that make it possible to circumvent Internet censorship. In the law’s explanatory note, the Duma deputies argue that Russia’s existing system to block illegal content on the Web is “not effective enough.” 363 deputies voted in …
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. Russian authorities are asking Western tech companies to allow them …
Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets Read More
During official talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the cooperation between the two countries in the field of technologies. Putin noted that Russia and Brazil already cooperate closely in space exploration and that there are plans to develop cooperation in Earth monitoring from space. “We see good …
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On June 27-28 DELIVER, an invite-only event dedicated to international e-commerce logistics and European policy making, will hold its second edition in Berlin’s Funkhaus. This even will gather prominent retailers from all continents with a focus on Europe’s largest e-commerce markets (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Benelux, Nordics). The organizers expect some 800 delegates from 50 …
Farmer Mikhail Shlyapnikov says creating his own virtual currency allowed him to raise almost $2 million in two months. The currency, the kolion, is named after the Moscow region village of Kolionovo, where Shlyapnikov lives. During its April launch period, investors from around the world bought $500,000 worth of the currency. Since trading began at the beginning of …
