East-West Digital News

According to a report published last week by US publication Business Insider, a range of western tech firms are users of FindFace, a controversial face recognition technology developed by Russi...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/08/05/business-insider-western-tech-majors-tested-or-used-controversial-russian-face-recognition-technology/

The former head of Russia’s top tech firm Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan has challenged sanctions against him over the Ukraine war in a European Union court. Khudaverdyan filed a lawsuit on June ...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/08/02/ex-yandex-head-takes-eu-to-court-over-sanctions/

A Russian court fined U.S. tech giants WhatsApp, Snapchat and Tinder on Thursday for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users inside the country, as stipulated by the demanding local ...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/28/russia-fines-tinder-snapchat-whatsapp-for-data-storage-law-violations/

The Russian government intends to spend more than 30 billion rubles ($375 million at the pre-war exchange rate, $500 million at the current rate) on an R&D program to deploy 6G until 2025, repo...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/27/from-4g-to-6g-how-next-gen-mobile-networks-could-develop-in-russia-amid-domestic-frequency-and-foreign-equipment-shortages/

In the weeks and months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Zvartnots International Airport in Armenia’s capital Yerevan was flooded with Russians leaving their country, among them a growing number...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/26/fleeing-putin-russian-tech-workers-find-a-home-in-armenia/

The Russia-linked hacking group behind the infamous SolarWinds espionage campaign is now using Google Drive to stealthily deliver malware to its latest victims. That’s according to research...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/20/russian-hackers-behind-solarwinds-are-now-hiding-malware-in-google-drive/

Yandex publishes today its annual Sustainability Progress Report covering the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance results in 2021 and outlining key accomplishments within e...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/20/from-education-to-social-and-environmental-responsibility-how-yandex-pushed-its-sustainability-agenda-in-2021/

On Monday Russia fined Google 21.1 billion rubles (some $263 million at the pre-war exchange rate, $360 million at the current rate) for repeatedly failing to remove prohibited content on its You...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/18/russia-fines-apple-for-violating-personal-data-law-google-for-failing-to-remove-fake-news/

Russian edtech has been growing fast over the past years, as witnessed by variety of solutions developed in the country. One of the latest examples is an immersive online-offline platform for rem...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/14/moscow-business-school-develops-pioneering-solution-for-remote-courses/

Vladimir Kiriyenko, the new CEO of internet major VK Company, enjoyed a day in the limelight at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June (SPIEF). “We have exceeded a monthly audie...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/12/vk-set-to-become-russias-tech-leader-as-it-crisis-shakes-up-sector/

All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russia...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/12/how-the-war-in-ukraine-led-yandex-into-a-trap/

The United States has urged Japan to put more pressure on cryptocurrency exchanges and mining companies that continue to work with Russians. The U.S. wants the Japanese entities to end their busi...

https://www.ewdn.com/2022/07/09/us-asks-japan-to-pressure-crypto-exchanges-miners-working-with-russia/