Almost 28 years after Ukraine’s declaration of independence, and five years after a quasi-state of war with Russia, a new law imposes the use of the Ukrainian language in all B2C communications in the country. Signed by outgoing president Petro Poroshenko on May 15, the law will come into effect progressively within three years after its official publication …
Over the past few weeks Ivi.ru, a major Russian online video streaming platform, has made its web, Smart TV and mobile services available in Ukraine and 10 countries of the former Soviet Union, said its general manager Oleg Tumanov to Russian business daily Vedomosti. The move is following agreements with content right owners. In these …
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Pawn Storm, a cyber-espionage group believed to have ties with the Russian government, targeted the international investigation team of the MH17 plane crash, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro asserts in a report released yesterday. “We believe that a coordinated attack from several sides was launched to get unauthorized access to sensitive material of the investigation conducted by Dutch, Malaysian, Australian, Belgian, …
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Local search and user review service Yell.ru has acquired a controlling stake in Ukraino-Russian startup YouScan by buying the shares of the previous investors, while the founding team retained a minority stake. No further details of the transaction were disclosed. Yell also announced that it will invest $1 million in the company’s further development.
Is Facebook’s moderation team pro-Russian? Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Mark Zuckerberg in person got involved in the controversy last week after thousands of Ukrainian users accused the social network of taking down or blocking posts and accounts from Ukraine. These takedowns were politically motivated and the posts were being reported for violations by masses of “Kremlin …
Moscow-based venture fund iTech Capital announced today it has invested $2 million in Clickky. Operating globally from its headquarters in Odessa, Ukraine, Clickky has developed a comprehensive mobile app marketing platform with in-house proprietary technology for user acquisition, traffic monetization and performance analysis. The investment will support Clickky’s expansion into the United States, South-East Asia and …
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Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) was initially aiming to shut down five websites that had been allegedly spreading pro-Russian views about the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they ended up crushing thousands of other websites, halting business and other activities of the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. In an attempt to block five allegedly anti-Ukrainian websites, …
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The Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine has just launched I-ARMY.ORG, a site for enrolling people in the “information forces of Ukraine.” In order to join the online army, users must register their email in the system, which will allow them to begin receiving daily tasks in their inbox. At the moment, the site solely functions …
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Life.Sreda, which looked just a few months ago as one of the most successful Russian funds, is now seeking buyers for the greater part of its portfolio companies, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week. The fund also cancelled its investment in Advice Wallet, a Kyiv (Kiev)-based startup which develops mobile payment service Settle. In July last year, Life.Sreda committed itself to …
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Ukrainian Facebook users who express their views on Russia’s war against Ukraine say some of their posts are being wrongly deleted from the world’s largest social network. Bloggers Zen Antipop and Dmytro Ivanov said the country’s blogging community plans to address Facebook management with a statement asking for fairer moderation of their writing.
Russia’s absorption of the Crimea region in early 2014 continues to be a source of friction between Washington and Moscow. The issue was illustrated recently by several US firms which cut ties with the disputed territory altogether. Due to sanctions placed on the region last year by the US authorities, which include an export ban of US …
Media attention to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict has focused on a significant number of hacking and malware attacks by private actors. As an example, the pro-Russian hacker group CyberBerkut has assumed responsibility for cyber operations against NATO, the vote counting system for Ukrainian elections, and a mobile device within the U.S. vice-president’s delegation during a …
