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The amount of blocked assets of Russia increased by 30% Switzerland has already blocked assets worth 7.5 billion Swiss francs, which belonged to citizens and companies of the Russian Federation. In total, the country has between 150 and 200 billion Swiss francs of Russian assets. This was reported by Bloomberg According to the representative of […]
The other day, Anonymous hackers posted a list of companies that continue to operate in Russia, despite the war in Ukraine. The list includes Acer, Alibaba, ASUS, Cloudflare, Eutelsat, Huawei, Lenovo, MSI, Tencent, Xiaomi, and other world-famous companies. Now linked to the hacker group Anonymous, NB65 reports that it has hacked the All-Russian State Television […]
A Russian court has declared Meta extremist and banned its activities in the country. However, the racists do not stop there: now they want to get two billion rubles. The main trial ended on March 21. Then the Tver court banned the social networks Facebook and Instagram at the suit of the Prosecutor General’s Office. […]
In Japan, sanctions have come into force for the export of luxury goods to Russia. In particular, the supply of some cars, motorcycles, equipment for diving and skiing will be stopped. The package of sanctions aimed at restricting the export of luxury items came into force on Tuesday. This was announced by the Ministry of […]
Roskomnadzor has included in the Register of blocked sites in Russia the Jooble resource – a job search service. The site also does not work in Belarus. Jooble blocking is a very interesting story. The fact is that Roskomnadzor claims that Jooble was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office for calls for […]
On April 4, the service for finding and placing short-term rent Airbnb banned residents of Russia and Belarus to rent housing around the world. All bookings canceled, and new ones cannot be made. Earlier, the service stopped operating in two countries after a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Airbnb has also launched a program to […]
Sales of smartphones in Russia in March fell by half. This was reported by Russian media, citing data from an unnamed partner company of several electronics manufacturers. Experts believe that by the end of the year, sales may also be halved. Between March 7 and 13, 380,000 smartphones sold in Russia. For comparison, in the […]
Russia has once again threatened to suspend cooperation with the West under the International Space Station (ISS) program. Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin is demanding the lifting of sanctions against his country. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, has condemned sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan, Canada, and the European Union […]
The Russian propaganda channel Tsargrad TV received a billion rubles from Google as compensation for blocking the channel on YouTube. The Russians promised to spend the money to finance the war in Ukraine. The amount of one billion rubles was previously frozen in the company’s Russian accounts as a result of lawsuits. It was launched at […]
Information about millions of smartphone users can be found on Russian servers thanks to Yandex spy codes. This was reported by the Financial Times. Developed by the Russian company Yandex, App Metrica software allows developers to create applications for Apple and Android operating systems. Formally, this software looks like a so-called “software development kit”. But […]