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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia says Yandex can buy Uber out of joint venture for half-price – Interfax  Marketscreener.com Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia says Yandex can buy Uber out of joint venture for half-price – Interfax  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Striking Food Delivery Workers in Russia Take on Tech Giant Yandex  Jacobin magazine Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia Censors Web So ‘Bald F*cker’ Search Won’t Show Putin  The Daily Beast Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.Photo by ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images The European Union’s upcoming ban on Russian oil products could spell more turmoil for the Kremlin. China and India are unlikely to buy refined Russian fuels that were once sold to the EU, which will ban them on February 5. That’s in contrast to Russian crude oil, which were snapped up by China and India after Europe shunned those supplies. Russia faces new sanctions on its… Source link

The smart oven installed in your kitchen may look innocuous enough, but it could be quietly surfing the internet and visiting websites in China and Russia every few minutes. As The Register reports(Opens in a new window), that’s what security-minded software developer Stephan van Rooji discovered when he checked what his own AEG smart oven was using a Wi-Fi connection for. As van Rooji explains(Opens in a new window), most devices with an active internet connection perform regular checks to… Source link

Sanctions against Russian companies and individuals have become a common tool for Western governments to exert pressure on the country’s domestic and foreign policy. However, a new study published in Russia’s main business daily Kommersant finds that sanctions targeted against executives – as opposed to oligarchs or politicians – may have unintended and long-term… Source link

But one country is notably absent from CES 2023 – Russia. Last time I was here, in 2020, I took a ride around the city in a driverless car developed by Russian technology giant Yandex. But this year, Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association, which runs the event, says, Russia is “not welcome”. Source link

Brittney Griner shed light on her time in Russia and plans for the future with an Instagram statement on Friday. After being released from Russian prison, the WNBA star was medically evaluated at the San Antonio Fort Sam Houston Base. “I appreciate the time and care to make sure I was okay and equipped with the tools for this new journey,” Griner wrote. “I also want to make one thing very clear: I intend to play basketball for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury this season, and in doing so, I look… Source link

For months, energy analysts have been fretting about what might happen on Dec. 5, when two things were due to occur. First, a European ban on seaborne imports of Russian oil would go into effect. Second, the world’s advanced economies would impose a price cap on Russian oil. December 5 has arrived, and … nothing much has changed. That’s good news for oil purchasers, since markets are not registering any unusual concern about supply disruptions. But business-as-usual in energy markets… Source link