Putin wants to control the Internet
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law requiring Internet companies to store all personal data of Russian users at data centres in Russia
Nato boss claims Russia has secretly infiltrated green groups fighting fracking
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The outgoing Secretary General of Nato has sparked ridicule from environmentalists after claiming that Russia is secretly orchestrating green groups...
Visa Worried About Business Risks in Russia
MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) – US-based financial services giant Visa International said Monday it was concerned about the future of its business in Russia in light of new legislation on a national card payment system in the country...
Snowden struggles in search for asylum
NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s best chance of finding refuge outside the United States may hinge on the president of Venezuela
Snowden threatens new leaks, asks numerous countries for asylum
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago
Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate, officials said Thursday.
Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi set a three-day deadline to draft a plan...
An armed assailant on Monday killed five people, including a 14-year-old girl, in a shooting outside a hunting shop in the Russian city of Belgorod, police said.
The man killed three of the shop's salespeople and two passers-by outside the premises in the southern city close to the border...
North Korea has almost completely isolated itself as a result of its confrontational stance. Now even its last allies are increasingly distancing themselves. The following is a summary the communist outpost's remaining friends: - CHINA: The People's Republic is North Korea's most important...
Russia warned Friday that a flare-up in tensions between North Korea and the United States could spin out of control, urging all sides involved in the standoff to refrain from muscle-flexing.
"Unilateral actions are being taken around North Korea which manifest themselves in an escalation of...
Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris will seek Russian assistance on Wednesday after his island's parliament rejected the terms of an EU-IMF bailout that slapped an unprecedented levy on bank accounts.
Sarris will meet his Russian counterpart Anton Siluanov in the hope of easing the terms...
Russia said Wednesday it had found horsemeat in a shipment of pork sausages imported from Austria in its first known case of horsemeat contamination as the scandal spread further across Europe.
"Tests on a shipment of Frankfurter sausages found the DNA of horses, chicken, cattle and soya,"...
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-02-28-russia-to-give-the-kalashnikov-a-makeover
lol... now I wonder where they got the idea to slap a light and scope on it? :D
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians
The old story from 2006 is here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012300738.html
I bet the guys who said this was a made-up story are feeling foolish.
http://news.discovery.com/space/russia-botches-another-rocket-launch-111223.html
Sounds like they need to beef up their "quality control" (isn't that an oxymoron in Russia?) even more! I'm just waiting for the first failed launch that results in the deaths of US astronauts. I believe we'll see...
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/12/08/fifa-world-cup-bid-computer-hacking-investigated-by-fbi/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=status+message&utm_campaign=naked+security
Dunno, what this has to do with the FBI, but I suppose somebody capable has to investigate it.
Russia denies plans to ban 'security risk' Gmail and Skype
The Russian security service denied Saturday it had plans to ban Skype and Gmail after one of its top officials said such services posed a serious security risk.