East-West Digital News was founded back in 2011 to provide international audiences with quality information about Russia’s emerging tech industries — from startup and venture developments, to...
https://www.ewdn.com/2022/12/31/ewdn-suspends-russian-tech-news-coverage-until-better-times/
While IT brain drain is not new in Russia, the trend has accelerated dramatically in 2022 following Russia’s war on Ukraine, the subsequent international sanctions and new waves of political re...
https://www.ewdn.com/2022/12/21/100000-it-professionals-left-russia-this-year-minister-acknowledges/
Apple is seeking to terminate a lease on its Moscow office, according to real estate sources cited by Russian media. The US firm had opened this corporate office just just before Russia began i...
Russia saw Wednesday its first IPO since the war in Ukraine began with local kicksharing service Whoosh raising 2.1 billion rubles ($32.6 million at the current exchange rate) on the Moscow excha...
https://www.ewdn.com/2022/12/16/kicksharing-service-whoosh-completes-russias-first-ipo-of-the-year/
Russia has blocked an average of 4,900 websites per week so far in 2022, according to Roskomsvoboda, an internet freedom NGO. According to Roskomsvoboda’s report, published Monday by the Komme...
https://www.ewdn.com/2022/12/13/640000-websites-are-currently-blocked-in-russia-reports-ngo/
Service offers to release Russian investors’ assets blocked on international crypto exchanges are springing up in the darknet, reports Russian business daily Kommersant. Among the methods used ...
Russia’s venture market, which hardly even reached $1 billion in pre-war years, is enduring hard times. In the first half of 2022, it fell by almost 40% in volume, according to industry res...
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, once a leading reformist in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, is leaving public service to go into business. He is set to take charge of Yandex, Ru...
Shaping the battlefield. Darius, king of Persia, did it in 331bc, with caltrops strewn where he thought his enemy Alexander the Great would advance. The Allies did it in 1944, with dummy aircraft...
Yandex, arguably the most successful and emblematic Russian digital company over the past 25 years, could be split amid the international and domestic tensions that have followed Russia’s attac...
Russian software developers have submitted early versions of homemade alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and Zoom, the RBC news website reported Thursday. Instagram was blocked by Russian author...
https://www.ewdn.com/2022/11/24/russia-eyes-domestic-alternatives-to-instagram-tiktok-zoom/
In the first nine months of 2022 Wildberries saw turnover increase 95% year on year to over RUB1 trillion (around $16.5bn). The online retailer has enjoyed a wildly successful couple of years...