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Yesterday, March 28, 2022, the deadline for the return of more than 400 leasing aircraft worth almost $10 billion by Russian airlines under EU sanctions expired. However, foreign landlords have effectively lost hope of returning their planes – Russia has taken them away, which is the biggest theft in history. This was reported by Reuters. […]
A new Russian social network, Rossgram, will be launched in Russia on March 28, according to the project’s official website. It specified that from Monday the social network will be available for partners – media, sponsors, investors, and then expand its work for bloggers and regular users. The description says that Rossgram will provide “all […]
The Russian airline Aeroflot, which is more than half owned by the state, attempted to circumvent Western sanctions to fly abroad. To achieve this, the airline wants to open a second base — in Sochi in addition to the main base at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Avianews reports. Aeroflot hopes to launch flights from Sochi on […]
Passenger rail service between Finland and Russia by Allegro trains will be suspended from Monday. This was announced by the Finnish operator VR Group, Interfax-Ukraine reports. “According to the decision of the Finnish government, on Monday, March 28, Allegro trains will be stopped. On Sunday, March 27, only the Allegro morning train will run from […]
The Iron Curtain is closing tighter and tighter. So, during March 24, several well-known world companies announced their withdrawal from Belarus or/or the Russian Federation. This was written by the minister of digital transformation of Ukraine Mikhailo Fedorov. So, the American company Grammarly (its popular online service uses AI to help write texts in English) […]
Russia demands that Google introduce censorship on the video hosting site YouTube. The Kremlin regime claims that the video hosting service should stop broadcasting videos with threats against Russians. Roskomnadzor accused the video platform of “engaging in terrorism.” The agency was outraged, as indicated in its appeal, by videos calling for distroyed the railway tracks […]
Xerox Holdings has suspended all supplies to Russia indefinitely. This was stated by CFO Xavier Hayes. “Nothing is going to the country,” – Hayes commented. The company’s CFO added that in Russia and Ukraine, representative offices are registered for various legal entities. In addition, he stressed that the company does not receive significant revenues in […]
According to research by Sensor Tower, after the start of the war in Ukraine, 6,982 iPhone and iPad applications were removed from the Russian section of the App Store. Source: TechCrunch In total, these programs have been installed in Russia about 218 million times – about 3% of the global number of installations (6.6 billion) […]
The European Union has announced sanctions against Russian chipmakers. The companies on the list previously suffered from US sanctions in 2014, but now their situation will deteriorate significantly. Experts predict that the situation around Russian chipmakers could worsen significantly, although their situation was already bad after the US sanctions imposed earlier. The following companies were […]
Russian authorities are threatening to shut down YouTube in the country if video hosting continues to block Kremlin propaganda channels with disinformation about Russia’s war against Ukraine. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Anton Gorelkin. He accused the company of allegedly supporting an information war against the […]