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| Jan 15, 2023 | Who Are You Calling a Great Power? | Editor’s Note: The United States is in the throes of a new era of great power competition, but few analysts or policymakers pause to consider which countries count as great powers and, perhaps more importantly, why. Dana Stuster, the Foreig... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | 2 intensifying border wars show Putin is losing sway in his neighborhood while Russia struggles in Ukraine | Soldiers at a ceremony in Almaty as Collective Security Treaty Organization peacekeeping forces start a gradual withdrawal from Kazakhstan on January 13. Pavel Pavlov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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| Oct 19, 2022 | New Russian Soldiers Issued Fake Body Armor | If you are a Russian soldier, you cannot rely on body armor to protect you. Because there is a good chance that it is either inadequate, missing or even, due to chronic corruption, a replica made for Airsoft play — paintball wargaming — wit... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Why Russia accused China of copying its stealth fighter design | China's J-20 stealth fighter jet. Reuters
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China is often accused of stealing plans for the US F-22 and F-35 to design its J-20 stealth jet.
Russia has also raised suspicions about China borrowing heavily from one of its own fight... |
| May 16, 2022 | The Hidden Power Of ESG – Part 2 Of 3-Part Series: Interview With The Former Finance Minister Of Ukraine | Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war arrive at the border in eastern Poland on February 27, 2022 ... [+] (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images |
| May 9, 2022 | Russia space chief's response to Elon Musk's tweet about dying mysteriously is the latest example of their trolling relationship | Elon Musk joked he could "die under mysterious circumstances" on Sunday.
It followed comments he said were made by Dmitry Rogozin that Musk should be "held accountable" for supplying Ukraine with Starlink terminals.
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| Apr 26, 2022 | Don’t Blame Crypto for Corruption | Is crypto fueling corruption? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) seems to think so. Using crypto usage data from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey, a group of IMF researchers recently found that countries with high crypto adoption tend t... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Russia's space chief was inviting Elon Musk to dinner and praising him 6 months ago. Now, they're hurling insults and trolling each other | Russia's space chief responded to Elon Musk's challenge to President Vladimir Putin.
Dmitry Rogozin has expressed admiration for Musk in the past, but they have a longstanding rivalry.
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| Mar 8, 2022 | How Russia's secretive Spetsnaz units may get put to use in Ukraine | Spetsnaz troops march through Red Square in a Victory Day military parade, May 9, 2021. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
Russia's ongoing offensive in Ukraine has raised concerns about how its Spetsnaz forces may be used.
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| Feb 26, 2022 | Raise A Glass To Ukraine’s Wine History | The eastern European country has a long, respected history of producing wine |
| Feb 23, 2022 | As Russian Forces Roll into Eastern Ukraine, Putin Grabs Yet Another Prize: Ores And Energy | A view of the Chelyuskintsev Mine operated by the Donetsk Coal Energy Company. Viktor Drachev/TASS ... [+] (Photo by Viktor Drachev\TASS via Getty Images) TASS via Getty Images |
| Feb 14, 2022 | Проблемы современного машинного обучения | Во многих популярных курсах машинного и глубокого обучения вас научат классифицировать собак и кошек, предсказывать цены на недвижимость, покажут еще десятки задач, в которых машинное обучение вроде как отлично работает. Но вам расскажут на... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | ‘What The **** Have I Just Hit?’: British Warship Tangles With Russian Sub In The Arctic | A close encounter between a Royal Navy warship and a Russian submarine culminated with the sub colliding with the ship’s towed sonar array. |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Дефицит специалистов не только в IT — он везде. Но денег не платят | Когда мы писали про рост зарплат в IT, то выяснили, что они растут из-за дефицита специалистов и выравнивания значений по уровню западных зарплат. Но оказывается, что дефицит есть везде. Абсолютно везде. Не хватает учителей, врачей, строите... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | Norway’s Hurtigruten Launches 2022 Cruise To Russia’s White Sea | The Hurtigruten cruise ship MS Spitsbergen will head from Norway to Russia's White Sea in 2022.Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
| Aug 3, 2021 | NATO fighter jets intercepted 2 rarely seen Russian electronic-warfare planes | A Spanish Eurofighter intercepts a Russian IL-22 PP MUTE, a specialized electronic warfare aircraft, July 29, 2021. NATO
NATO fighter jets intercepted several Russian aircraft over the Baltics on July 29.
Among them were two Il-22PP Porubsh... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | Russia is saying goodbye to its last Soviet-era ballistic-missile submarines. Here’s what’s replacing them. | Russian nuclear-powered ballistic-missile sub K-84 Ekaterinburg in Murmansk, May 23, 2018. Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Images
Russia has announced plans to decommission the ballistic-missile submarine Ekaterinburg.
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| Feb 11, 2021 | TikTok emerges as a political battleground in Navalny-stirred Russia | TikTok has crafted a number of policies over the years to distance itself from the often-messy political fray, but its users continue to have other agendas in mind.
In Russia, a tug-of-war has emerged on the social network.
On one side are ... |
| Oct 4, 2020 | Из Рыбинска в Голливуд: как братья-иммигранты из Российской империи оказались главными в американском кинобизнесе Статьи редакции | Братья Шейнкеры, известные как Джо и Николас Шенки, стояли у истоков 20th Century Fox и Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Первый даже получил Оскар за вклад в киноиндустрию и звезду на голливудской Аллее славы.
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В развитие ИИ в России инвестируют около 76 компаний, среди них: «Яндекс», Google, ФРИИ, Фонд «Сколково», «Сбербанк» и другие. Всего в Восточной Европе около 230 компаний, инвестирующих в техн... |
| May 29, 2018 | Russia’s Yandex unveils Plus, a Prime-style service for $2.75/month, ‘Station’ smart speaker and Alice skills | Russian search giant Yandex is sometimes described as the “Google of Russia”, but maybe it should be described as the Amazon of Russia, too.
The company today took the wraps off Yandex.Plus, a service modelled on Amazon Prime that gives use... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Russia’s game of Telegram whack-a-mole grows to 19M blocked IPs, hitting Twitch, Spotify and more | As the messaging app Telegram continues to try to evade Russian authorities by switching up its IP addresses, Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) has continued its game of whack-a-mole to try to lock it down by knocking out complete swath... |
| Nov 25, 2017 | Why Eastern Europe is a hotbed for computer vision startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In September 2015, the Ukrainian startup community and technology-focused media went into a frenzy after Snapchat announced it was acqu... |
| Nov 25, 2017 | Why Eastern Europe is a hotbed for computer vision startups | In September 2015, the Ukrainian startup community and technology-focused media went into a frenzy after Snapchat announced it was acquiring Looksery, an Odessa-based image-processing startup.
The deal, reportedly valued at around $150 mill... |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Why startups from Eastern Europe are so strong in face recognition and augmented reality | Eastern-European engineers seem to have some special skills, or secret sauce, to develop face recognition and related AR technologies, if judging by the number of startups with roots in this region that have made the news over the past few ... |
| Jul 21, 2017 | Разработчик российской космической техники предложил заряжать дроны лазером | В документах корпорации, распространенных на авиакосмическом салоне МАКС-2017, говорится о «создании установки дистанционного энергоснабжения для поддержания беспилотного летательного аппарата в воздухе в течение 24 часов в сутки».
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| Apr 19, 2017 | Twitter is reviewing whether to store some user data in Russia | Twitter is considering localizing the storage of some of its Russian users’ personal data in order to comply with data localization laws, TechCrunch has confirmed.
The Moscow Times reported earlier today that Russian communications regulato... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Ecommerce in Russia was worth €14.85 billion in 2016 | The ecommerce industry in Russia was worth 920 billion rubles, which is about 14.85 billion euros, in 2016. This is an increase of 20 percent when compared to the year before. Estimates are ecommerce in Russia will reach 1 trillion rubles (... |
| Mar 12, 2017 | Two Is Company, Three Is a Crowd: The Iran Factor in the Changing U.S.-Russia Relationship | Editor’s Note: President Trump came into office seemingly determined to improve U.S.-Russia relations, with fighting the Islamic State high on the mutual agenda. Standing in the way of better cooperation, however, is Iran: a top foe in Trum... |
| Mar 7, 2017 | Russia says ‘nyet,’ continues LinkedIn block after it refuses to store data in Russia | Russia’s internet regulator today confirmed that access to social networking site LinkedIn — which has been blocked in Russia since November 2016 — is not returning to Russia anytime soon, after it received a letter from the social network’... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | Evaluating Trump’s Options in Syria | U.S. policy in Syria has failed, but it’s not clear if the new Trump administration can make things better—and some of the options officials are considering would clearly make things worse.
Although the Islamic State has suffered numerous s... |
| Nov 17, 2016 | LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia | Amid a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to transfer Russian user data to servers ... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | Mail.ru co-founder Dmitry Grishin steps down as CEO, replaced by VK head Dobrodeev | A changing of the guard is afoot at Mail.ru, the Russian Internet giant that owns the country’s most popular email service; Russia’s Facebook equivalent Vkontakte; messaging service ICQ and a number of other properties. Co-founder Dmitry Gr... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | The 100 biggest online stores in Russia | Data Insight and Ruward published the top 100 of biggest online stores in Russia. Number one on the list is Ulmart, with a turnover of almost 510 million euros. The top three is completed by Wildberries (€443 million) and Citilink (€344 mil... |
| Aug 12, 2016 | Russian PSP Assist enables online payments by MIR cards | Assist Group, a major online payment service provider in Russia, provides online stores with the ability to process MIR cards, the national payment card system in Russia. Some of the acquiring banks are already connected, the rest is at the... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Are self-driving cars the next crime frontier? | While autonomous vehicle enthusiasts gush about the technology’s positive potential, Russian experts are raising fears that self-driving cars will be used to commit crime.
Russia Beyond the Headlines recently examined worries from Russia th... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Apple Makes A Beeline For Carrier Billing In Emerging Markets, Starting With Russia | When Apple quietly turned on carrier billing in iTunes in Germany last month, we said emerging markets could be the company’s biggest opportunity and target for the facility, which lets consumers charge things like app payments and music pu... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | Russian Government Threatens To Block Reddit | The Russian government isn’t too happy with Reddit these days. But it’s not even over critical comments made about the government’s handling of Ukraine, it’s about a single thread on the site regarding how to grow “narcotics.”
Roskomnadzor,... |
| Feb 24, 2015 | Crimean software developers are trying to bypass sanctions | Ordinary programmers have suffered greatly from the economic sanctions against Russia. Apple and Google have fully suspended accounts belonging to Crimean software developers. Their applications are no longer available for downloading and t... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | How Norwegian salmon finds its way into Russia | Norwegian salmon can still be found on the shelves of Russian stores, despite a ban on its import. Russian fish processing companies now import chilled fish to Belarus, where it is gutted and salted at local factories, after which the proce... |
| May 21, 2014 | Tomorrow, a Russian government-owned telco will launch a search engine to rival Google, Yandex | Almost 70 years after the cold war-era ‘Space Race’ between the United States and Russia was kickstarted by the latter’s launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite into low Earth orbit, another Sputnik launch will likely start a new chapter in the R... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Is Crimea part of Russia? – Answers found on Facebook, Vkontakte, Yandex differ; Wikipedia changes its mind | Three weeks after Russia asserted that Crimea and the city of Sebastopol have become part of its territory, Facebook and Russian-language social network Vkontakte still categorize the inhabitants of these regions as being located in Ukraine... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Russian government paper’s site taken down by pro-Ukraine hackers | Hackers have taken down several Russian media website in the past week and alleged attacks on defense infrastructure in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Among the latest victims, on March 7, was the website of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, on... |
| May 13, 2012 | Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic | Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business.
Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup “Pirate Pay” has its way... |
| Embarrassing losses are making Russian forces very cautious around one of Putin's most prized military outposts | Smoke rises after explosions at a Russian air base near Novofedorivka in Crimea on August 9. Reuters
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Russian military sites in Crimea have been hit by a series of explosions over the past two weeks.
Ukraine hasn't officially take... |
| Начался сбор заявок на участие в рейтинге RBTH Russian Startup Rating | Цель рейтинга – привлечь внимание к российским стартапам на международном уровне, говорится в пресс-релизе RBTH. Выдвигать стартапы могут не только их основатели, но также инвесторы и эксперты.
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