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Elon Musk Open to Setting Up a Tesla Factory in Russia
Elon Musk has signaled his willingness to open a factory in Russia, according to a new report....
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Russia Banning Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies may be gaining traction around the world, but they aren't welcome in another major country, as Russia takes steps to ban them....
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U.S. Space Force Deploying Space Fence
The newest branch of the U.S. military is wasting no time making its presence known as it prepares to deploy its Space Fence, according to Popular Mec...
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Facebook Reveals New Census Interference Policy Ahead of 2020 Census
Facebook received its share of criticism over the 2016 election thanks to Russian operatives using the social media platform to sow disinformation and...
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Apple Threatens to Leave Russia in 2020, Citing Russian Software Demands
The International Business Times (IBT) is reporting that Apple may leave the Russian market next year in response to a new law requiring Russian softw...
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Google Loses Antitrust Appeal
Google has reportedly lost an appeal in an antitrust related to Android in Russia. The complaint was lodged last year by Yandex, and in September, Rus...
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Russia Bans Wikipedia Over Drug Article, Promptly Reverses Course After Edits
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (basically its internet watchdog) ha...
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Reddit Will Block Content in Certain Countries, Has Already Done So in Germany and Russia
Reddit has confirmed that it will locally block content if it receives a “valid request from and authorized entity.” The policy confirmati...
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Russia Unblocks Reddit After Dustup over Shroom Post
On Wednesday afternoon, Russia added reddit to its registry of blocked sites. And as of early Thursday morning, reddit has been removed from the block...
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Reddit Is Now Banned in Russia
Well, it looks like they weren’t lying. After warning that it was considering it, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Co...
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Russia Threatens to Block Reddit over Drug Post
Russia, which has a history of threatening to block access to certain sites over seemingly ridiculous reasons, is now considering a ban on reddit. The...
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Russia Is Thinking About Blocking Facebook Over Gay Emoji
A little while back Apple and many other platforms adopted a new Unicode standard for emojis that included, among other thing, emojis featuring same s...
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Apple’s U2 Album Giveaway Turned Kids Gay, Say Russian Wingnuts
According to some right-wing Russians, this is probably going to turn your kid gay: #u2 #Gift #u2songsofinnocence Thanks Barclays @U2Kouklitsa @vanycf...
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Anna Duritskaya, Girlfriend Of Murdered Putin Critic, In Hiding And Fearing For Her Life
Anna Duritskaya was standing right next to Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov when he was gunned down just steps from the Kremlin. In fact, An...
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Google Facing Another Antitrust Probe – in Russia
Google is facing another antitrust investigation, as Russian search company Yandex has asked the country’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to take...
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Hitler Beauty Pageant in Russia Gets Shut Down
In a move that is at least as historically confused as Kirk Cameron’s Halloween revisionism, Russian women were queuing up to compete in what has be...
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Oil Prices Could Weaken Vladimir Putin’s Resolve
Oil prices stand at a three year low of $81 per barrel. That’s significantly less than the $100 per barrel that was in place when Vladimir Putin...
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Fish With “Human Teeth”? You Won’t Believe The Explanation
A fish with HUMAN teeth? This is what a fisherman in Russia claimed to have captured after reeling in a most peculiar sea animal. Aleks Korobov was fi...
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World War 3: Has Vladimir Putin Been Planning to Instigate Major War?
According to a former advisor of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president has been planning to spark a major conflict in the Baltic region for the past d...
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Millions Of Gmail Passwords Leaked
According to various reports, starting with Russia’s CNews, nearly five million Gmail usernames and passwords were leaked, and published to a Ru...
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