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Nov 24 (Reuters) – Russian internet giant Yandex is seeking President Vladimir Putin’s approval to sell its operations in the country and spin off its main international projects, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing sources. Yandex will also seek the president’s blessing for the appointment of his longtime confidant to manage its relationship with Kremlin, the report said. (Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel) Source link

Russia aims to develop super-fast 6G technology, skipping the deployment of 5G networks altogether, hoping to achieve a generational leap. The Russian government is going to invest more than 30 billion rubles ($501m) in research, supervised by Oleg Ivanov, a former deputy minister of the Ministry of Digital Development, now the head of the Radio Research and Development Institute (NII Radio). This is, to put it mildly, ambitious. Russia failed to build 5G networks,… Source link

KYIV, Ukraine — Even by his own fire-and-brimstone standards, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed angry on Friday as he addressed hundreds of Russian parliamentarians and governors in St. George Hall in the Kremlin. The event had been called so that Putin could triumphantly announce his latest gambit in Ukraine, the annexation of four regions of that country into the Russian Federation. But as he rattled off a litany of reasons as to why this land grab was necessary, the mood was more… Source link

The war in Ukraine has turned against Russia and its authoritarian president, Vladimir Putin, with Ukrainian forces routing battered Russian units and retaking surprising amounts of turf in northeast Ukraine. But Putin still has some potent weapons he can deploy, and an energy war with the West is erupting in parallel with the military war in Ukraine. Despite bruising sanctions, Russia remains the world’s third largest exporter of oil and natural gas, and in coming months, Putin seems very… Source link

(Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine set Russia’s economy back four years in the first full quarter after the attack, putting it on track for one of the longest downturns on record even if less sharply than initially feared. Most Read from Bloomberg In a bleak tally of the war for Russia, an economy that was picking up speed at the start of 2022 swung into a contraction during the second quarter. Data on Friday showed gross domestic product shrank for the first… Source link

(Bloomberg) — European Union leaders agreed to pursue a partial ban on Russian oil, paving the way for a sixth package of sanctions to punish Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, for the invasion of Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg The sanctions would forbid the purchase of crude oil and petroleum products from Russia delivered to member states by sea but include a temporary exemption for pipeline crude, European Council President Charles Michel said late Monday during a summit in… Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin.Pool Sputnik, AP Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s former chief economic adviser, was interviewed by the BBC. He said Putin would likely halt the Ukraine war if the West stopped buying Russian oil and gas. Many Western nations remain heavily reliant on Russian energy exports. Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser has suggested that Russia would halt military operations in Ukraine “within a month or two” if Western countries stopped buying Russian oil and gas. In… Source link

In what has become a familiar pattern, former President Donald Trump has once again solicited help from a foreign leader in exposing possible dirt to try to wound a political enemy. Trump, who was impeached in 2019 for his request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he do Trump a “favor” by investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter, told right-wing television host John Solomon in an interview published Tuesday that he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to shed light on unverified… Source link

As the words and images from Ukraine grow grimmer and more heartbreaking by the hour, it’s almost impossible to imagine what Ukrainians are going through. To the extent we have any idea is thanks to reporters on the ground. And Putin is waging war on those brave souls as well — in Ukraine and in Russia. Putin isn’t only attacking journalists, but the very concept of journalism — and even truth itself. Putin’s global war on the media is part of his M.O.: A dirty, sneaky and deadly… Source link

The Scheherazade, which dominates the waterfront in the small town of Marina di Carrara, Italy, March 4, 2022, where it has been moored since September. (Gaia Pianigiani/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are examining the ownership of a $700 million superyacht currently in a dry dock in an Italian seacoast town and believe it could be associated with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to multiple people briefed on the information. U.S. intelligence agencies have made… Source link