September 12th, 2018China’s e-commerce major Alibaba and Russia’s internet company Mail.ru have announced that they have entered into a deal to launch a joint venture in Russia and former Soviet countries.
The new venture will be called AliExpress Russia, taking after the name of an existing Alibaba platform.
The two groups and the Russian...
June 18th, 2018The FIFA World Cup 2018 that started June 14 and we have already witnessed some exciting football matches. The FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sports events for the football fans all over the world and this time the tournament is taking place In Russia which involves many matches taking place over a period of one month. Sometimes,...
June 5th, 2018India has received its very first consignment of the cheapest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) under a longstanding contract with Russia. The gas has been imported into the country at a price of around $7 per million British Thermal Unit (mmBtu) by the Russian supplier Gazprom. Russia is the largest crude oil and second-largest gas producer...
April 30th, 2018According to a new research, it has been revealed that Russian Twitter accounts pumped out messages in support of the opposition Labour party in an attempt to influence last year's British election.
About 6,500 automated accounts had sent messages praising opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his policies in the closing stages...
April 10th, 2018US President Donald Trump condemned the recent chemical attack on Syria describing it as "atrocious and heinous" while declaring that his administration will come with some "major decisions" on Syria within next 24-48 hours.
Trump said,
It was an atrocious attack, totally horrible, we don't see like that. We are very concerned that a...
January 20th, 2018Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service.
The company said it would email 677,775 people in the United States who followed, retweeted or liked content...
November 29th, 2017The founder of Moscow-based anti-virus software company Kaspersky Lab said on Tuesday he would quit Russia if its intelligence agencies ever asked his company to spy for it.
CEO Eugene Kaspersky said accusations his software had been used by Russian spies to steal American secrets had caused the company’s revenue to decline in North...
November 15th, 2017Russian Twitter accounts posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in the 48 hours around last year’s referendum in an attempt to sow discord during the vote on whether to leave the European Union, the Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Times cited research from an upcoming paper by data scientists at Swansea University and...
November 9th, 2017Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo on Wednesday, apologised for the two historic data breaches at their company. She blamed the Russian agents, saying they were behind at least one of these breaches, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.
”As CEO, these thefts occurred during my tenure, and I...
November 2nd, 2017The Russian ads that influenced the Americans came under many disguised faces. They ran all across Facebook and Instagram attempting to influence the public's opinion through social media in a manner we hardly can imagine!
The content that went along with it could hardly be traced now, but we managed to get some of the screenies of...
November 1st, 2017U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Facebook Inc’s chief lawyer on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian rubles, why its investigation of them took so long and how much it knows about its 5 million advertisers.
Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing fired questions for much of...
