RUSSIA TECH SANCTIONS

During PM Modi’s post-2024 elections visit to Moscow, he held a five-hour meeting with President Putin. He received Russia’s top civilian honor. Key topics included the 2019 maritime corridor, defense, energy projects, new consulates, and US sanctio...

Japan has sanctioned Bengaluru-based Si2 Microsystems Pvt Ltd, an Indian tech firm, for allegedly supporting Russia's war efforts. This move, part of broader sanctions including firms from China, the UAE, and Central Asia, marks Japan's first target...

In a significant move, President Putin's visit to North Korea showcased Russia's willingness to challenge Western interests, particularly in the context of the Ukraine crisis. The pact signed with Kim Jong Un includes mutual military assistance and ...

The United States on Thursday banned Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky from providing its popular anti-virus products in the country, the US Commerce Department announced. "Kaspersky will generally no longer be able to, among other activitie...

With India's key strategic partner Russia more firmly entrenched and aligned with China in 2024, the domestic political authority the next government in New Delhi brings to the table - and the way it deploys this capital - will hold the key to how i...

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing amid Russia's offensive in Ukraine. The leaders discussed strengthening their nations' partnership and signed agreements. Putin praised China's infrastructure initiati...

US State Secretary Antony Blinken, during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month, urged Beijing to end military support for Moscow. Earlier in December, US President Joe Biden gave the Treasury Department authority to impose secondar...

Iran's drone technology is reshaping global conflicts, with drones based on Iranian designs being used in various countries, including Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine. These drones, like the Zagel-3 based on Iran's Ababil model, are becoming increasingly ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a luxury Russian-made limousine, violating a U.N. resolution banning luxury items to North Korea. Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, accepted the gift, emphasizing the leaders' close re...

Russia received its first shipment of bananas from India in January, and another shipment is expected at the end of February. The Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said that "the volume of exports of Indian bananas to the Russian market...

The Kremlin-engineered deal would see Russia's largest technology player fall entirely under Russian ownership, including a fund ultimately owned by oil major Lukoil, and cement Yandex's departure from Western tech circles.

Democratic US senator Mark Warner, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a letter to treasury secretary Janet Yellen in which he said the treasury department was failing to "ensure sanctions compliance in digital advertising markets."

The new sanctions are consistent with those already announced by the European Union, the United States and other countries, the ministry said in a statement.

EAM Jaishankar met Manturov on day two of his five-day visit to Russia on the eve of his meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The two ministers held wide-ranging discussions on measures to boost business and trade partnership includin...

At least 10 companies had been planning 2022 listings prior to Russia's February invasion of Ukraine, but sanctions on Russia's financial system and the exodus of Western bankers and lawyers has sorely limited share offerings.

Yandex's fate has been the subject of much speculation since it announced plans to pursue a corporate restructuring last November, a move that should see its main revenue-generating businesses inside Russia spun off from its Dutch-registered parent ...

Facing western sanctions, Russia has had to adapt to life under an increasingly harsh series of economic punishments. And, while Putin had apparently planned for a relatively short "special military operation", this conflict has become a protracted ...

The action, taken in coordination with Group of Seven allies, seeks to punish 250 people and firms, puts financial blocks on banks, arms dealers and technology companies tied to weapons production, and goes after alleged sanctions evaders in countri...

The measures will include extensive new export bans on a number of products, technologies and components that have been identified in Russian weapons deployed in Ukraine, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.