The national payment card in Russia will be called “Mir”

The national payment card in Russia will be called Mir. It was this name that won the competition, in which more than 40 thousand people participated. The idea to use the Mir brand belongs to the user lentachka! from Udmurtia. The special prize of the competition was given the name "Falcon" by Tatiana from the Samara region. ...

US allowed access to web services from Crimea

The US Treasury Department has clarified the procedure for applying the sanctions imposed on Crimea. This was reported on the agency's website. It is about using software and Internet services. According to the text of the license, a number of network functions are removed from the sanctions. Sharing data with individuals ...

Revealed the scheme by which the American IT giant circumvented sanctions against Russia

The American corporation Cisco, which produces network equipment, supplied its products to the Russian law enforcement agencies and special services, bypassing the sanctions. This is the conclusion reached by BuzzFeed journalists, who conducted their own investigation of the company's activities. Among other things, the journalists obtained the internal correspondence and documentation of the Russian representative office of the company. In order to…

Facebook, Twitter and Google may be subject to sanctions in Russia

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, sent letters to Facebook, Twitter and Google warning them to stop "illegal actions." This was reported on Wednesday May 20 by the Russian media. The Russian department believes that American companies violate the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation, in particular - the so-called ...

Crew ISS got under Russian sanctions

The crew of the International Space Station was hit by a Russian food embargo in response to Western sanctions in 2014. This is stated in the report of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation. The embargo applies to products to be delivered from the US to the ISS by Russian ships. In January 2015, a batch of American products for ...

Azerbaijani company wanted to bribe congressmen for exclusion from sanctions regime

In 2013, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) secretly financed all expenses related to the travel to a conference in Baku of ten members of Congress and 32 employees of its staff. The Washington Post reported this, citing a confidential report from the Congressional Ethics Department ...

Bloomberg: Russia opposes automatic return of sanctions in case of violation of the agreement by Iran

“The Obama administration is trying to tout the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical Arabs, Israelis and U.S. lawmakers by saying U.N. sanctions will be automatically reinstated if the Iranians are caught cheating,” Bloomberg reports. “As if it weren’t so,” say the Russians who own...

How much does America cost Ukraine?

Since the beginning of the military conflict on the eastern borders of Ukraine, the United States has spent more than $ 400 million on it. “Forum” has calculated where this money went and what it was spent on. Economy. Reforms. Growth. In March 2014, after a change of government, American advisers came to ...

US Secretary of State goes to Russia for the first time in two years

US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold a series of meetings on Tuesday in Sochi, Russia, primarily with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other representatives of the Russian leadership. This is stated in the official statement of the US State Department. “US Secretary of State John Kerry will leave on May 11...

Presidents of Russia and the Czech Republic discussed the future of European sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin received Czech President Milos Zeman in the Kremlin. The Czech President became the only EU leader who arrived in Moscow on May 9 and held a bilateral meeting with Putin. The ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow, most ...

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