Russian Technology

Telegram boss Pavel Durov could be held in police custody until Wednesday after French prosecutors said they had granted extra time for questioning, while a senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged Washington was behind his arrest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin and discussed ways to diversify cooperation between the two nations in various sectors like trade, commerce, security, agriculture, technology, commerce

The world premiere of a new biopic portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an AI-rendered central character, is scheduled for September 26th.

China is helping Russia evade Western sanctions and likely providing Moscow with military and dual-use technology for use in Ukraine, according to an unclassified US intelligence report released on Thursday.

Russian lender Sberbank said on Monday it had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot race.

Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google's online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is actually Russian, Reuters has found.

The United States on Wednesday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, targeting a network that Washington accused of procuring military and dual-use technologies from U.S. manufacturers and supplying them to Russian users.

Russian minister Bella Cherkesova on Monday expressed interest in deepening the collaboration with India in telecom technology, security, and developing 5G use cases. Cherkesova, Russia's Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, discussed India's success in spreading the digital infrastructure across the country, parti...

Some Russian technology professionals, bankers, and journalists at state media outlets will not be called up to serve in Ukraine as part of Russia's mobilisation drive, the defence ministry said on Friday in a statement.

Russian lawmakers have approved a bill with stricter penalties for foreign internet companies that fail to open an office in Russia. Fines could be as high as 10 percent of a company's turnover in Russia from the previous year, rising to up to 20 percent for repeat violations.

Users in Russia are being given free access to virtual private networks (VPNs) as part of a US-backed campaign to help them dodge Moscow’s anti-censorship software. The Open Technology Fund is said to be paying out money to firms like Psiphon and nthLink which have provided VPN access to an estimated four million users in Russia.

A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Alphabet's Google 15 million roubles ($260,000) for repeatedly failing to comply with a Russian law requiring technology companies to localise user data.

The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according to five people familiar with the situation.

The US added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its trade blacklist including several aircraft factories and shipbuilding and research institutes in its latest effort to deprive the Russian military of U.S. technology and other items.

Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor says it opened administrative cases against Alphabet's Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations of personal data legislation.

Telegram boss Pavel Durov could be held in police custody until Wednesday after French prosecutors said they had granted extra time for questioning, while a senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged Washington was behind his arrest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin and discussed ways to diversify cooperation between the two nations in various sectors like trade, commerce, security, agriculture, technology, commerce

The world premiere of a new biopic portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an AI-rendered central character, is scheduled for September 26th.

China is helping Russia evade Western sanctions and likely providing Moscow with military and dual-use technology for use in Ukraine, according to an unclassified US intelligence report released on Thursday.

Russian lender Sberbank said on Monday it had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot race.

Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google's online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is actually Russian, Reuters has found.

The United States on Wednesday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, targeting a network that Washington accused of procuring military and dual-use technologies from U.S. manufacturers and supplying them to Russian users.

Russian minister Bella Cherkesova on Monday expressed interest in deepening the collaboration with India in telecom technology, security, and developing 5G use cases. Cherkesova, Russia's Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, discussed India's success in spreading the digital infrastructure across the country, parti...

Some Russian technology professionals, bankers, and journalists at state media outlets will not be called up to serve in Ukraine as part of Russia's mobilisation drive, the defence ministry said on Friday in a statement.

Russian lawmakers have approved a bill with stricter penalties for foreign internet companies that fail to open an office in Russia. Fines could be as high as 10 percent of a company's turnover in Russia from the previous year, rising to up to 20 percent for repeat violations.

Users in Russia are being given free access to virtual private networks (VPNs) as part of a US-backed campaign to help them dodge Moscow’s anti-censorship software. The Open Technology Fund is said to be paying out money to firms like Psiphon and nthLink which have provided VPN access to an estimated four million users in Russia.

A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Alphabet's Google 15 million roubles ($260,000) for repeatedly failing to comply with a Russian law requiring technology companies to localise user data.

The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according to five people familiar with the situation.

The US added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its trade blacklist including several aircraft factories and shipbuilding and research institutes in its latest effort to deprive the Russian military of U.S. technology and other items.

Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor says it opened administrative cases against Alphabet's Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations of personal data legislation.