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No gloom over Zoom: Kremlin urges Russia’s IT to develop rival to videoconferencing app Earlier, Kommersant daily reported that Zoom Video Communications had prohibited its distributors from selling its online conference services to government agencies and state-owned firms in Russia and other former Soviet countries © Vladimir Gerdo/TASS MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. Zooms decision to pull the plug on Russian state agencies access to its service should spur the development of domestic alter...

Business ombudsman presents strategy to create "strong middle class" in Russia by 2030 He noted that the implementation of the measures of the strategy can ensure economic growth by 5% annually Boris Titov, Russias Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs Rights© Artyom Ivanov/TASS MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. Boris Titov, Russias Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs Rights, presented the concept of the Growth for All strategy aimed at creating a "st...

Connecticut College students unveil global COVID research project Researchers from Conn and its partner institutions around the world presented their findings during a virtual symposium 19 Conn students joined an international team of COVID-19 researchers. When Professor of Slavic Studies Andrea Lanoux recruited a group of Conn students last summer to explore the global impact of COVID-19 on various facets of society, she couldn’t have imagined how far-reaching the project would ultimately ...

                                                Changes at the top of KBC Group Subject to the approval of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 6 May 2021, KBC Group will reshuffle its Executive Committee: Rik Scheerlinck, KBC Group CFO, who reached the statutory age limit in January 2021, will retire after a career of 37 years with KBC.   Luc Popelier, the current CEO of the International Markets Business Unit, will succeed Rik Scheerli...

Russia’s carbon-dependent economy challenges a clean energy shift By Marc Champion and Natasha Doff on 3/15/2021 Drilling the Sakhalin field LONDON (Bloomberg) --As the man in charge of developing Russia’s vast Arctic north, Aleksey Chekunkov faces more climate-related challenges than most, from permafrost sink holes to the emergence of West Nile fever in frozen tundra. Yet he’s no eco-warrior when it comes to fossil fuels. “We have to be real...

A Tough Nut to Crack: North Koreas Air Defenses Are No Pushover North Korean low-altitude air defenses are also fairly robust—even if the systems that Pyongyang fields are dated. Heres What You Need to Remember: While North Korean technology is relatively primitive, the nation’s air defenses are coordinated and far harder to crack than one might think. If any administration chooses to intervene in North Korea, the White House may discover that Pyongyang is a more formidable adversary than...

Air-fair? Cut-price flights will land in marginal seats We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss March 12, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: A large, well-fed pig in a barrel accompanies the Morrison government’s announcement of the $1.2 billion tourism subsidy (“Cut-price flights to help lift tourism”, March 11). Of the 13 tourism regions to benefit from the cut-price ticket subsidy, eight are in marginal seats a...

Send to Kindle Russia and the United States have embarked on resuming climate cooperation, with Russian Presidential Climate Advisor Ruslan Edelgeriyev having held his first meeting with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Climate protection remains one of the few promising areas for cooperation between the two superpowers, Kommersant writes. Moscow stepped up international climate and environment cooperation when Barack Obama was US president. However, collaboration on this f...

All news Top stories in the Russian press on Wednesday, March 10 Empty vials of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine© AP Photo/Christophe Ena Kommersant: Washington accuses Moscow of vaccine smear campaign Read also The policy of containing Russia, proclaimed by the new US administration, has extended to the fight against the pandemic. Representatives of the White House and the State Department have accused Russian intelligence agencies of an information war against Western vaccines designed to undermin...

VKHUTEMAS is 100 at the Museum of Moscow The most comprehensive exhibition of the avant-garde school. Architectural models Museum of Moscow At the end of 2020 just before all museums were closed in Moscow to contain the second wave of the coronavirus, the Museum of Moscow opened “100 Years Old: VKHUTEMAS, School of the Avant-Garde.”  Lauded as one of the most important cultural events in the capital, it  immediately had to close until a few weeks...