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In the middle of last month, Russian propaganda actively promoted the Terminator-2 tank support combat vehicle, but now the surviving equipment is waiting to be withdrawn from Ukraine. BMPT ‘Terminator-2’ has never been used in combat. She did not pass the baptism by Ukrainian fire. The cars entered the territory of our country, promptly showed […]
The Russian army has turned the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant into a military base. This was announced by the president of the state company Energoatom Petro Kotin. He said that the Russians had deployed military and heavy equipment – trucks, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles – at the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP (infantry fighting vehicle. […]
Japan, as part of a new package of sanctions against Russia, has banned exports to the aggressor country of trucks, dump trucks and bulldozers. This was stated by Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Koichi Hagiuda, according to a document from the agency, reports the National Industrial Portal with reference to the GMK center. The […]
Russia’s Yandex has erased the borders between the states in the next update of its map service. Country borders are not displayed in either the web version or the app. You can see the borders only with a strong approach. The thin gray line is barely noticeable against the background of everything else. Cosmopolitanism in […]
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) records hundreds of cases of burning their Russian passports by citizens living in Ukraine. At the same time, the number of people wishing to renounce Russian citizenship and obtain a Ukrainian passport is growing. The DBR told the stories of three men who did it in protest against Russia’s […]
Amid a shortage of products, Huawei has decided to close several official stores in Russia. A source close to the Russian office reports this. The first store in Moscow was closed on February 28. Since then, the units in Ufa, Rostov-on-Don and Novokuznetsk have stopped working. Now Huawei has 15 out of 19 stores in […]
On June 7, 2022, IBM announced its complete exit from the Russian market. On March 7, the company suspended business in the region due to the war in Ukraine. Arvin Krishna, CEO of the company, writes about this in his corporate blog. According to him, all these months the company has focused on the safety […]
German industrial software developer SAP has confirmed previously published information about the complete cessation of its work in Russia and Belarus. The personnel restructuring program will begin in June and end by the end of 2022, – reports the Russian Kommersant. “SAP will provide severance pay to employees in all departments in Russia and Belarus. […]
Saudi Arabia has made it clear to Western countries that it is ready to produce more oil if Russia significantly reduces its production due to sanctions. The kingdom has long resisted calls from Washington to increase production, but changed its position after visits by senior US officials, the Financial Times reported, citing its own sources. […]
The Netflix platform has restricted access for Russian users, the service is opened only via VPN, write the Russian editions DTF and Rozetked. On the night of May 27, Russian users lost access to Netflix without a VPN. Previously, Netflix was still available in Russia, but after its exit from the Russian market, you could […]