The Crimean crisis is affecting Russia with various sanctions from the U.S. It is becoming difficult for Russia to transact with the world with the new sanctions. Russia has now renewed its plans to get its own card system so that it doesn’t have to relay on Visa or Mastercard for its card payment process. Which the mounting pressure from ... Read More »
Russia has tabled another draft resolution against terrorism at the UN Security Council (SC), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday after a meeting between Russian and Egyptian foreign and defense ministers. “We do not only rely on basic principles, namely the need to fight terrorism without exception approved by the SC and the UN’s other units, but also bear ... Read More »
The hatred for Bitcoin keep by our beloved governments continue to heat up. The latest being that Russia has outlawed Bitcoin. The internet currency Bitcoin is being quite a threat to the regular government currency and governments do understand it could destabilize the currency value. Russia has decided to act. Russia’s Prosecutor General has declared use of bitcoin illegal in ... Read More »
The inventor of the assault rifle Mikhail Kalashnikov has died at the age of 94 according to various reports coming from Russia. Mikhail Kalashnikov is know his design of the automatic rifle that become the world’s most popular and widely used weapons. Mikhail design was so simple that it was also relatively cheap to manufacture. Also since it was simple ... Read More »
A Boeing airliner crashed in Russia killing everyone on-board. The Russian passenger plane was trying to land at the airport in the city of Kazan when it crashed and killed all 50 people aboard. The Boeing 737 belonging to Tatarstan Airlines crashed about 7:20 p.m. local time (10:20 a.m. EST), an hour after taking off from Moscow. There were no ... Read More »
Facebook has been blocked in Russia. Russia’s has decided that Facebook is just too much of an annoyance that it best be eliminated. Russia’s Internet blacklist, which can blackhole websites for reasons ranging from copyright infringement through to drug-related information, has welcomed its highest profile addition. Russia’s telecoms watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has been added to the list leaving ... Read More »
The website of the Mascow court that sentenced three members of Pussy Riot to 2 years in prison has been hacked. Anonymous? Sweet Revenge? The Russian offshoot of the loose-knit movement known as Anonymous tweeted that it had taken down the website of the Khamovniki district court. According to search engines’ cached pages, the hackers posted Pussy Riot’s latest song ... Read More »
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