Worldâs First Blockchain Instant Aviation Fuel Payment Solution Approved For Launch Date
25/05/2021
Gazprom Neft’s SmartFuel, the world’s first blockchain solution for instant aviation ‘into-the-wing’ refuelling payments, has been approved for its full market launch after securing registration from the Russian Federation.
The new technology, which cuts the transaction time between a jet fuel supplier and an airline from four to five days to just 15 seconds, has been registered in the Software Register of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation clearing it for wide distribution.
SmartFuel enables refuelling requests, payment, and the exchange of accounting documents to be carried out via applications installed on tablets held by pilots and refuelling operators.
Ksenia Drozdova has been appointed director general of the
Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications (IOSC), the company announced May 24. She had previously been the deputy director general for Business Development of
Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC). Drozdova had been nominated for the post of director general by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. Drozdova is one of the most high-profile women in leadership positions in the Russian space industry.
As director general of the international organization, Drozdova will head the Directorate – the permanent executive and administrative body of Intersputnik – and will be engaged in the further development of the organization.
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China Learning From Russia’s “Emerging Great Power” Global Media Tactics
April 12, 2021 02:00 PM
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Image: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart Sergei Lavrov speak to the press after their meeting in Moscow, Russia on September 11, 2020. The two sides agreed to “make comprehensive preparations for future high-level interactions and…further cooperation in various areas” including cyber and information security (Image source: Xinhua).
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers observed that China has employed newly assertive tactics including spreading widespread Russian-style disinformation which suggested that “Beijing is increasingly seeking to shape the global information environment beyond its borders” (Alliance for Security Democracy, March 30, 2020). Chinese propaganda researchers and academics have closely studied the example of Russian media organs such as Russia Today (RT), and explicitly view
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IMAGE: Note: On average over the period 2014-2017. The values on the axes are calculated as the ratio of the number of AMT used from various sources (in-house development vs acquisition. view more
Credit: V. Vlasova et al.
Russian enterprises have limited opportunities to carry out technological modernisation on their own. Their technological portfolios reveal a high dependence on imported solutions and a limited deployment of their own developments, HSE University researchers discovered.
In recent years, there has been a growing demand for the use of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) in Russia. Between 2011 and 2018, the number of AMT used increased by 33%, and in 2018 they amounted to almost 255,000 units in absolute terms. Meanwhile, innovation strategies focused on independent development of novel manufacturing solutions are not widespread in Russia. Fewer than 20% of organizations meet the need for AMT by using their own resources; the majority pu