Russia Listen/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U.S.
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The Kalashnikov CV-1 was meant to kill Tesla and impress Putin — but where is it?
Two years ago, the maker of the AK-47, Kalashnikov, unveiled an electric car that was supposed to beat Tesla into the ground. ...
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Norway blames Russian hackers for parliament email breach
Norway is the latest country to accuse Russia of infiltrating its systems, following an email hack which took place back ...
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Russia published the results of its COVID-19 vaccine — and they don’t live up to the hype
President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it ...
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Russia's most notorious troll farm reportedly used deepfakes to push a fake news outlet on Facebook
Facebook and Twitter say they've removed a network of accounts behind a fake news outlet run by fictitious journalists with ...
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Russia’s first mass-produced EV will cost less than $7,000 but you can’t buy it
Russia and renewable energy don't exactly go hand in hand. As its economy is built on oil and gas, EVs aren't high on its ...
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Russian cyberspies are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine information
A Russian cyberespionage group that hacked into election networks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now attempting ...
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Russian scammers used corporate buzzwords to try and defraud Fortune 500 firms
Russian hackers orchestrated more than 200 email-based attacks designed to swindle Fortune 500 companies out of hundreds ...
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Russia lifts futile two-year ban on Telegram Messenger
Russia has canceled its ineffective two-year ban on messaging app Telegram, claiming the company has shown a "willingness" ...
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Russia developing coronavirus tracking app to ensure patients stay home
It seems Russia is taking a leaf out of China's book. It's rolling out an app to track citizens diagnosed with coronavirus ...
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Hackers earned nearly $40M in bug bounties in 2019
Ethical hacking is swiftly turning into a lucrative spare time activity — for a small chunk of white-hat hackers at least. ...
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Report: Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon in exchange for saying Russia didn't hack the DNC
Breaking news out of the UK today indicates that the Judge presiding over Julian Assange's pre-trial extradition hearing ...
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Alleged BTC-e boss will be extradited to France over cryptocurrency fraud
The man thought to be behind notorious cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, which is involved in a multi-billion Bitcoin fraud ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...
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Study: North Korea, China, and Russia top internet censorship charts
A new study published by Comparitech.com, a site that compares privacy tools, ranks countries on how much they exercise internet ...
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Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo
The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin's military hackers recently launched a successful phishing campaign against employees at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the 'quid pro quo' scandal that lead to ...
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Bitcoin’s price rose 87% in 2019 — here’s what happened in Q4
Bitcoin's performance throughout 2019 was somewhat unremarkable. We've taken a closer look at its price movements during ...
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Greece suspends extradition of alleged launderer for Bitcoin 'stolen' from Mt Gox
The alleged head of a cryptocurrency exchange police say laundered $4B worth of Bitcoin has been thrown a lifeline while ...
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This cryptocurrency mining botnet uses Taylor Swift pics to propagate itself
A cryptocurrency-mining botnet is infecting computers with an image of Taylor Swift to spread its malware as widely as possible. ...
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Vladmir Putin is extricating Russia from the world-wide-web
Tonight, if you live in Russia, it's time to party like it's not yet 1989. Soviet KGB agent President Vladmir Putin is ...
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Russia to pre-install its own apps on all phones, PCs, and TVs sold in the country
Russia has officially passed a law banning the sale of electronic equiment that are not pre-installed with Russian software. ...
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Russian blockchain token named in false Tunisian digital currency report pumps, then dumps
Despite government-issued digital currencies being all the rage these days, the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) has quickly ...
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Microsoft: Russian hackers are trying to derail the 2020 Summer Olympics
Fancy Bear has targeted at least 16 national and international sporting and anti-doping organizations ahead of 2020 Summer ...
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Hackers are now selling 'Raccoon' data-stealing malware as a $200 monthly service
A new kind of trojan malware is fast gaining currency among cybercriminals for its capability to steal sensitive information, ...
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Russian nuclear scientist gets 3 years in prison for mining cryptocurrency at work
Andrei Rybkin, an employee of one of Russia’s premier nuclear weapons research and development center, has been handed ...
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Russian cyber spooks piggyback Iranian hackers to spy on 35 countries
Russia-backed Turla threat actor has been found to piggyback on hacking tools developed by Iranian threat groups to mount ...
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Android stalker app cases increase by 373% in 2019
Stalkware apps have increased a whopping 373 percent during the first eight months of 2019 when compared to the same period ...
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This map connects Russia's deadly malware to the espionage groups behind them
Notorious threat actors like Potao Express, BlackEnergy and Turla account for as many as 79 unique malware families, a new ...
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Russia reportedly enacts laws defining cryptocurrency and smart contracts
Russia has reportedly just enacted a new "digital rights act" that defines smart contracts and cryptocurrency tokens coming ...
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91% of Russians would rather pirate than pay for content, survey shows
A new survey reveals that only 9 percent of Russians prefer to stick to exclusively legal content, while the rest are cool ...
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Former pro ice hockey player detained for $700,000 Bitcoin fraud
A former professional ice hockey player from Russia has been detained in Moscow for swindling $700,000 from a victim expecting ...
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Overstock's blockchain mad CEO resigns after disclosing romantic relationship with suspected Russian spy
The blockchain-mad CEO of online retailer Overstock has stepped down amid a confession that he was romantically involved ...
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Russia wants to boost transparency with blockchain – are you kidding me?
Russia, ruled by Vladimir Putin's arguably authoritarian regime, wants to leverage blockchain technology to host Moscow's ...
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Russia seizes 2,500 Bitmain cryptocurrency miners for dodging $1.2M in import fees
Authorities seized a trove of over 2,000 illegally imported Bitmain ASIC cryptocurrency miners from a Russian mining operation ...
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Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia targeted all 50 US states ahead of 2016 elections
In a heavily redacted report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee today says Russians targeted election systems ...
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BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project
Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian ...
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State-sponsored cybercriminals attacked 10,000 Microsoft customers in 2018
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they've been the target of ...
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Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master ...
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Only 9% of Russians actually know anything about Bitcoin
A survey by state-owned Russian public Opinion Research Center has found the country is well acquainted with the term Bitcoin, ...
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Why the world is unhappy with India's anti-satellite missile test
India successfully launched an anti-satellite missile last month. What does this spell for its reputation as a major space ...
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New Android malware targets 32 cryptocurrency apps and 100 international banks
Meet "Gustuff," the new Trojan horse virus that's out to steal your cryptocurrency (and your fiat!) from your online accounts. ...
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Russia quietly removes mentions of cryptocurrency from delayed digital asset bill
Bitcoin enthusiasts in Russia will have to endure yet another setback as the government has a postponed bill seeking to recognize ...
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Alleged Russian boss of Bitcoin 'money-laundering scheme' wants to go home
Alexander Vinnik, the alleged operator of troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has lodged an appeal for extradition to ...
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Metro Exodus brings the series into the open (world)
Exodus takes the Metro series into the open air, and infuses some much-needed hope into this grim, challenging first-person ...
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Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon
It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...
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Ryuk ransomware earns hackers $3.7M in Bitcoin over 5 months
A squad of cybersecurity firms have tracked a ransomware threat known as Ryuk, which has collected over 705 BTC in just ...
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Facebook ousts hundreds of fake news accounts tied to Russia
Facebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The ...
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Senate report: Moscow directed 'troll farm' in efforts to elect Trump
The damning conclusion of the Senate intel committee's report concurs with previous intelligence community reports indicating ...
