


DailyMotion to be banned in Russia for copyright infringements

Mail.ru Group acquires Warface publishing rights for North America and Europe

Russia’s MegaFon to acquire majority stake in Mail.Ru for $640 million

Face-recognition app sparks controversy after it’s reportedly used to track women who appeared in porn films

On-demand ride service Gett receives $100 million loan from Russia’s Sberbank

Russia set to become BlaBlaCar’s biggest market in 2017

Analysis
LinkedIn blocked in Russia: A welcome warning for global players?

Putin: Tech should not be demonized, but it is ‘an objective threat’ to businesses

Intento wants to build the Google for messaging and chatbot content

Russia likely to block LinkedIn next week following court ruling

Russia’s top 10 websites include Facebook, Google, Instagram, and YouTube

China and Russia trump U.S. for the best developers in the world, says HackerRank

U.S.-Ukrainian big data startup Galactic Exchange raises $1.25 million

Borsch: a neural-network based food app from Russian programmers

Smartcat raises $2.8 million to develop a translation automation platform

Mail.ru launches video-filter app Artisto to compete with Prisma

U.S. VPN provider leaves Russia after server seizure and adoption of anti-privacy legislation

Russian games market reached nearly $1 billion in 2015

After partnering with Facebook and Google, Russian startup VisionLabs raises $5.5 million from local corporate fund

Russian leader Putin signs controversial ‘Big Brother’ law

Prisma becomes top mobile photo app for Russia, hopes to repeat success of Masquerade

Hyperloop One gets an investment from Russia’s sovereign fund

Russian minister accuses Netflix of being part of U.S. government plot

VRTech raises $5 million to fund virtual reality startups in Russia and Asian countries

Russia considers $12 billion Hyperloop project to link Moscow and St. Petersburg

Life.Sreda launches global fund for banks to invest in blockchain startups

Runa Capital raises $135M second fund for later-stage U.S. and European startups

Ukrainian mobile marketing startup Clickky lands $2M for global expansion

Russia launches two major internationally-oriented tech funds

Shazam’s latest funding round came, in part, from Russia

News aggregator Anews raises $2.7M for further international expansion
