A Delivery Club courier has been spotted roaming the streets of Saratov, central Russia, riding a white horse, reports The Moscow Times, citing the Russian online publication TJournal. The man was photographed with the company’s typical green shirt and backpack. “I’m already being called the courier on the white horse around the city,” he was …
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On Dec. 12 the Saratov region in Southern Russia conducted a reportedly successful blockchain election with 40,000 participants, according to a press release. Participants voted to elect members of the local Youth Parliament via the blockchain-driven electronic polling system Polys, developed by Kaspersky Lab in 2017. According to the press release, the decentralized network was …
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Valery Radayev, the governor of Saratov, has some big ideas for SEPO, the Saratov Electrounit Production Corporation. You might know SEPO for its indestructible refrigerators, which it’s been pumping out since 1939, when it was founded in the Soviet Union to show the world’s capitalist pigdogs that communism could produce consumer comforts, too. SEPO also made …
Scientists in Saratov, in the Lower Volga area of Russia, have developed the country’s first navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. According to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, the new system can be fully self-contained and is capable of providing an alternative to satellite-based navigation systems. The technology and the software have all been …
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Last week, at Moscow’s SOFTOOL-2013 IT project show, Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (SChSU), a major university in the Lower Volga area, presented what it claims is a “unique” radio frequency identification solution. This solution was developed by SGU-Kontakt, an education and R&D center spun off from SChSU, the SChSU press service announced. The project aims …
Russia’s central government has been the main promoter of the satellite-based GLONASS geolocation technology across the country, but local realities sometimes contradict Moscow’s spectacular nationwide plans. Transportation companies operating in Saratov, in the Lower Volga area, came across this duality recently when attempting the introduction of ERA-GLONASS, a real-time satellite-based service for reporting and responding …
