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Rostec creates 5G subsidiary to diminish Russia’s reliance on foreign equipment

August 21, 2021

Rostec,  a state-owned conglomerate covering a wide range of technologies, including military ones, has established a company dedicated to supply 4G, 5G and 6G equipment on the national market. Dubbed ‘Specter,’  the company will aim to organize the “cooperation” of Russian equipment makers in technical and production terms, reports business daily Kommersant. In November last year the …

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Russia demands YouTube block Navalny channel

August 3, 2021

Russian authorities have demanded that YouTube block jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s popular channel that has published viral investigations into corruption and fueled anti-government protests in recent years, his senior ally said Friday.  The request comes less than a week after Russia’s internet regulator Roskomnadzor blocked 49 Navalny-linked websites and sought to ban his associates’ Twitter accounts. …

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Russia blocks Navalny’s mirror site using Internet isolation tools – but not yet his ‘Smart Vote’ site

July 29, 2021

Russian authorities have blocked jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s mirror website using the tools that help telecom providers “isolate” Russia’s section of the internet, The Moscow Times reports, citing privacy NGO Roskomsvoboda. Navalny rolled out the website navalny.app after authorities blocked his main website navalny.com alongside nearly 50 sites linked to him Monday because of “banned extremist …

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Russia blocks Navalny’s website and dozens of related ones

July 29, 2021

Russia’s Internet regulator Roskomnadzor on Monday blocked 49 websites linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. Among these sites ar his personal website where he published investigations into alleged high-level corruption that have sparked nationwide protests in recent years. Roskomnadzor’s actions come one week after it blocked the website of a prominent legal group that …

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Why is Russia not using Pegasus spyware?

July 27, 2021

When a group of international investigative journalists and researchers broke the news that spyware called Pegasus, produced by the Israeli NSO Group, had helped repressive governments across the world spy on journalists, activists and lawyers on an unprecedented scale, the question emerged: Where was Russia? Russia’s government bodies — the secret services — are known …

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Behind stereotypes: Putin’s cybercrime challenge

July 13, 2021

By Mark Galeotti, Director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence, Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies. Following recent cases of Russian-linked cyberespionage and ransomware attacks, President Joe Biden has cranked up the pressure on Vladimir Putin to act. Despite easy stereotypes that the Kremlin is behind, or at least passively sanctions …

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Science, technology and information highlighted as battlefields in Russia’s new national security strategy

July 8, 2021

On July 3 president Vladimir Putin signed off on a new national security strategy for Russia. This latest version develops the notion that Russia is surrounded by enemies threatening the country’s security in a variety of ways — from military pressure, to the spread of extremist ideas, to the “Westernization of culture” and the imposition of foreign moral values.  In the spirit …

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Russia seeks funding for Putin’s ‘genetic database’

June 25, 2021

Earlier this month  Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a series of orders to determine the needed funds and sources for Russia’s national genetic database program. The move followed a visit to the  Kurchatov Institute — a secretive research organization headed by President Putin’s close ally Mikhail Kovalchuk — which is leading Russia’s genetic research program. Putin, who has sought to transform Russia into a world leader in genetic …

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Russian oligarch Deripaska blasts Bank of Russia for ignoring Bitcoin

June 19, 2021

Russian industrial tycoon Oleg Deripaska is the latest figure to criticize the Bank of Russia’s stance on cryptocurrency regulation in the country. Deripaska took to his official Telegram channel on Thursday to blast the Russian central bank for pressuring the crypto industry to avoid getting involved into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The Russian oligarch pointed out …

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High tech reverberations from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

June 19, 2021

A notable part of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was dedicated to IT and digital transformation as well as the state’s role in these fields (see the forum’s topical sessions and its special Innovation Space). This major event took place on June 3-4, gathering much of the country’s political and business elite and some foreign …

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Russia may be cut off from SWIFT as part of West’s “spiral of sanctions,” warns foreign ministry

June 7, 2021

Russian banks may be blocked from using SWIFT, a payment system that enables reliable and secure financial transactions, as part of restrictions against Moscow, in what one official has called a potential “spiral of sanctions.” “It’s no secret that there are threats, primarily from the United States, to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT system,” said Dmitry …

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