TechSpot

JANUARY 21, 2022

Elizaveta Danilova, the Bank of Russia's Financial Stability Department director, presented the ‘Cryptocurrencies: trends, risks, measures’ report during an online press conference.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

as the two countries work out details for a ceasefire agreement in Ukraines war with Russia. Getting Russia to agree to a ceasefire would be the next step. However, as a geoscientist with experience in resource evaluation, I have been reading technical reports, many of them behind paywalls, to understand whats at stake.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2022

Netflix is suspending its services in Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by Variety. Given the circumstances on the ground, we have decided to suspend our service in Russia”. According to Bloomberg , Netflix currently has around 1 million subscribers in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Visa and Mastercard are suspending operations in Russia in light of its invasion of Ukraine. Visa and Mastercard are suspending operations in Russia in another major blow to the country’s financial system, according to a report from the Associated Press. We regret the impact this will have”. “We

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2022

TikTok is suspending new video uploads and livestreams on its app in Russia, citing the country’s newly-passed “fake news” law as the reason for the change. 2/ In light of Russia's new ‘fake news’ law, we have no choice but to suspend livestreaming and new content to our video service while we review the safety implications of this law.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2022

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has suspended all operations in Russia, halting home entertainment releases, such as Spider-Man: No Way Home , and temporarily blocking access to its anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, according to a report from Variety. Funimation already isn’t available in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Spotify has closed its office in Russia and removed content from Kremlin-backed outlets RT and Sputnik, Variety reports. Reuters reports that RT and Sputnik’s content has been removed in several markets including the United States and European Union, but not in Russia itself. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechSpot

MARCH 4, 2022

Reports indicate Russia has already blocked multiple social media networks, app stores, and Western news networks. This comes following restrictions Russia had already begun at the end of last week.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that routes data across intercontinental connections, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by The Washington Post. There isn’t any indication as to whether other internet backbone providers will also suspend services in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Due to the fact that the payment service used in Nintendo eShop has suspended the processing of payments in rubles, Nintendo eShop in Russia is temporarily placed into maintenance mode,” according to a Google-translated version of the message. “We EA and CD Projekt Red have halted sales of their games in Russia and Belarus.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced that it’s temporarily halting Soyuz rocket launches in French Guiana due to sanctions imposed by the European Union, according to a report by Space.com. Russia and Europe have been readying for a robotic mission to Mars set to take place this year.

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The Verge

MARCH 20, 2022

Russian space agency Roscosmos has denied claims that its three cosmonauts wore what appeared to be the colors of the Ukrainian flag as a potential statement against the ongoing war, according to a report from the BBC. Roscosmos was quick to dismiss any reports that suggest the cosmonauts wore the colors in solidarity with Ukraine.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Mozilla and Google have extended their arrangement to keep Google the default search engine within the Firefox browser until at least 2023, ZDNet reported. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Mozilla also laid off about 70 people in January.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Google has paused all ad sales in Russia in response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. “In In light of the extraordinary circumstances, we’re pausing Google ads in Russia,” a Google spokesperson told The Verge. The pause by Google follows similar blanket bans on ads in Russia enacted by Twitter and Snapchat.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Russia's Vedomosti daily reports that the unit, which sells data storage systems and telecommunications equipment to corporate clients, will be disbanded on January 1. SCMP writes that around 2,000 employees will be asked to transfer to Huawei's offices in other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries or be laid off.

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TechSpot

APRIL 27, 2022

Reuters reports that DJI has become the first major Chinese firm to pull its products from Russia. Ride-hailing company Didi Global had announced it was pulling out of Russia and Kazakhstan in February but changed its mind following pressure from social media users in China accusing it of succumbing to.

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TechSpot

MARCH 2, 2022

In response to the invasion, Apple has paused all product sales in Russia, limited Apple Pay, and removed RT News and Sputnik News for the App Stores outside of the country. It has also disabled traffic patterns and live incident reports in Apple Maps in Ukraine to prevent the monitoring.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

PayPal is suspending its services in Russia in response to the country’s “violent military aggression in Ukraine,” according to a report from Reuters. Ukraine’s vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted out a letter from PayPal CEO Dan Schulman, confirming the company’s decision to shut down its operations in Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2021

Four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading false or misleading information about coronavirus vaccines, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing an official at the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Fitness brand Garmin paid millions of dollars in ransom after an attack took many of its products and services offline last month, Sky News reports. BleepingComputer reported last week that Garmin had received a decryption key to access data encrypted by the virus, and that the initial ransom demand was for $10 million.

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TechSpot

JUNE 21, 2022

Users in Russia are currently unable to download Windows 10 and 11 ISOs and installation tools from Microsoft's servers. People first started noticing the issue over the weekend.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the conflict grows in scale and intensity, organizations far beyond the apparatus of military and government are being drawn in — including ransomware groups active in Russia and Ukraine. The Conti #ransomware operation sides with Russia and threatens attacks on critical infrastructure. This is a Ukrainian citizen.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A report from RBC claims that Intel and AMD, two of the largest US semiconductor manufacturers, have informed their Russian partners that they would be stopping industrial chip deliveries to the country. However, these restrictions will not affect the supply chain for consumer-targeted products, such as laptop and desktop processors.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

10, NASA reports it's 2.1 Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that exploded over Russia and blew out people's windows in 2013 proved. The chances of an impact remain low — but with relatively limited observations so far, the odds are in flux.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

billion rouble fine is around eight percent of Google’s revenue in Russia, Reuters reports , and comes amid a broader push within the country to exert more control over big tech companies and the content people publish on their platforms. This isn’t Google’s first fine in Russia over its content moderation.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Russia will lift its nearly two-year ban on messenger app Telegram, Reuters reported. Roskomnadzor is dropping its demands to restrict access to Telegram messenger in agreement with Russia’s general prosecutor’s office,” the agency said in a statement. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechSpot

MARCH 23, 2022

The studio is currently based in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which has been under constant attack since Russia invaded the country. This week, an anonymous source told Czech gaming website Vortex that members of Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World went to Prague to apply for a business license.

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TechSpot

JUNE 7, 2022

Bloomberg reports that Chen Wenling, chief economist at the government-run China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said, "If the US and the West impose destructive sanctions on China like sanctions against Russia, we must recover Taiwan."

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2021

The Russia-linked SolarWinds hack which targeted US government agencies and private corporations may be even worse than officials first realized, with some 250 federal agencies and business now believed affected, the New York Times reported. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Well that’s one way to do propaganda : The search engine giant Google was hit with $375 million by Russia for failing to take down certain content, Ivan writes. The fine came a month after Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunication watchdog, warned the company it could face penalties for violating local laws. Christine and Haje.

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2024

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that SpaceX's Starshield business unit was building a spy network under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that manages spy satellites. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A cyberattack has forced Toyota to shut down its factories in Japan, forcing the automaker to lose about 13,000 cars of output, Reuters reports. It is difficult to say whether this has anything to do with Russia before making thorough checks,” he said, according to Reuters. “It

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TechSpot

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Interfax news agency reported in July that Reddit was facing its first-ever fine from Russia after it failed to remove content that Moscow said discredits the Russian army. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2023

Microsoft-owned Minecraft has become an especially popular way to push Russia's claim that its invasion was justified. As reported by The New York Times, pro-invasion players use the game to reenact a battle from January where Russian forces captured the city of Soledar in Ukraine, posting their clips on social. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are suspending game sales in Russia in light of its invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies that have decided to cut ties with the country (via Engadget ). In an updated post on its blog , Ubisoft announced its decision to pause sales in Russia, citing the “ongoing tragedy in Ukraine.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

User growth was driven by marketing campaigns in India, as well as the service’s launch in Russia and 12 surrounding markets. The company called Russia its “most successful new market launch to date.”. The service’s user and subscriber growth puts it comfortably ahead of rivals services from Amazon and Apple. Image: Spotify.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On Monday, Russia's space agency Roscosmos (?????????) As of 9:39 am EST, Roscosmos reports the ISS is in the "green zone." tweeted that it had astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS) move into their spacecraft as it passed by an "object."

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