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If you've ventured through the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, then you've already gotten a taste of what the developers think of Russia and its residents. As any good American that has lived through the Cold War or been raised on movies inspired by that period, the writers behind ... |
17 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Top officials in the Russian Federation announced on Thursday that they gave their acceptance to a proposal stating that the country should pursue the development of a nuclear-powered spacecraft, which is currently set to fly as early as 2012. This would essentially leave the former Communist nation in charge of the ... |
5 November 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Local Polish media reports that the country's government network was the target of an organized cyberattack back in September. The authorities are reluctant to disclose details about the incident, but apparently the attack originated in Russia.According to the Polish Rzeczpospolita (The Republic) newspaper, the ... |
15 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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According to the international agreements among the space agencies involved in the International Space Station (ISS), the sky lab is to end its operations by 2015. However, more and more of the countries involved are beginning to question if it is wise to put an end to the ISS, after it operated at full capacity for ... |
12 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Between 1961 and 1985, the Soviet space agency funded and conducted a series of space-exploration missions to Venus, in order to collect as many scientific data about the “morning star” as possible. Ten of the probes in the Venera program successfully landed on the surface of the planet and relayed data b... |
9 October 2009
06:05 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA usually makes use of solar panels for its exploration missions in the solar system, such as for instance on Mars, the Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Vesta, Ceres, and so on. But these explorations take place in the relative vicinity of the Sun, so the amount of electricity produced by the solar... |
1 October 2009
06:04 GMT |
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After a long journey that lasted a few days, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, an important part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, has been safely delivered to its launch site, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in northern Russia. The spacecraft was designed and built by sou... |
18 September 2009
20:01 GMT |
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An antitrust case against Microsoft over the discontinued availability of Windows XP was extremely short lived. At the start of June 2009, it appeared that the Redmond-based company’s decision to stop selling XP in favor of Windows Vista had come back with a boomerang effect, as the software giant found itself ... |
8 September 2009
08:23 GMT |
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With the planned withdrawal of NASA's aging shuttle fleet, by the end of 2010, nations involved in the European Space Agency (ESA) are looking for new solutions to ensure that they maintain a permanent presence in low-Earth orbit and on the International Space Station (ISS). Officials from the agency have alread... |
28 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The Android fever seems to have caught another manufacturer, namely Vobis Computer, which adds to the long list of Android adopters while also being present on the shorter list of companies that already announced their handset running under Google's platform. Its Android device, called HIGHSCREEN PP5420, is the ... |
6 July 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Russians are the most devout users of social networking in the world, according to new data from comScore. 18.9 million Internet users, from the country's total of 31.9 million, visited a social network in April and spent, on average, 6.6 hours a month on these sites, viewing 1,307 pages. "Social networking ha... |
2 July 2009
06:44 GMT |
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With recent discoveries in the Arctic regions and the North Pole, the potential for a military confrontation between regional powers increased significantly, military analysts warned at the time. Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and the Russian Federation all claimed areas of influence over rich oil and natural gas fi... |
11 June 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The now discontinued Windows XP is staging a comeback to haunt its maker. Microsoft managed to generate an antitrust probe against itself when it went ahead with plans to discontinue the availability of Windows XP through retail and OEM channels. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has announced that it has star... |
5 June 2009
06:57 GMT |
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North Korean authorities apparently mean business, western officials have said. The Communist nation has announced just recently that it will openly engage in military confrontations with South Korea, if any of its ships, military or civilian, are stopped and searched by a US-led coalition. The Democratic half of Ko... |
27 May 2009
09:16 GMT |
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In late April, the Russian Federation surprised everyone by accepting the fact that humans were, in fact, responsible for global warming, and recognizing that it had to do something to prevent any further degradation of the environment. While many consider the decision a radical shift in view from Prime Minister Vlad... |
27 May 2009
03:59 GMT |
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A top Russian space official has recently announced that the Russian Federation plans on keeping its International Space Station modules flying when the station is dismantled. While this is scheduled to happen in 2015, chances are that the life of the orbital facility will be prolonged until 2020, or maybe even 2025.... |
23 May 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Hours after news broke out that a Russian company was advertising the latest Mac clones, Softpedia learned that RussianMac was already shipping the units, claiming no conflict with Apple's End User License Agreement for Mac OS X. According to electronista, RussianMac's line of Mac clones includes the MiniB... |
21 May 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Treading in the footsteps of Psystar in Miami, PearC in Germany, and OpeniMac in Argentina, RussianMac is just one of the many Mac cloners offering the cheapest way to use Mac OS X at home, or at work. However, unlike other companies that make profits off Apple's operating system, RussianMac even posts its metho... |
20 May 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Yesterday, a high-ranking official from the Russian Federal space agency RosCosmos announced the agency came to an agreement with NASA, concerning the price that the American agency would have to pay in order to have its astronauts ferried to orbit and to the International Space Station between 2010 and 2015. The sou... |
14 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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A helicopter crash in Russia, which took place in January, brought to the media's attention a phenomenon that may be very widespread within the country's elite – that of hunting endangered animal species, which are on the brink of extinction, from up in the air. The aforementioned crash killed seven i... |
6 May 2009
10:53 GMT |
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In a decisive move, the European Union has banned imports of seal products coming from animals that are slain in the most brutal ways. Adopted yesterday, with 550 votes for and 49 against, the new legislation is aimed squarely at Canada, one of the main suppliers for the European market, which has come under increase... |
6 May 2009
06:32 GMT |
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In their annual summit, the five nations in Central Asia are focusing their discussions on the issue of water security, which seems to be getting increasingly desperate over short periods of time. Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, two of the five countries, hold together about 80 percent of the region's waters, in rese... |
28 April 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Labeling Russia as a market of strategic importance to Microsoft, the company's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed an investment plan worth no less than 10 billion rubles for the country. The $300 million pledged to the Russian economy by Microsoft will be made available throughout the next three yea... |
22 April 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Cases of cannibalism have become increasingly seldom around the world, but, every once in a while, one pops up in the eyes of the media and the public opinion, and people are brutally reminded of the savage and cruel human nature. The most recent case of cannibalism was recorded in the Russian city of Perm, in the co... |
16 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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The Russian government-held company Gazprom, the world's largest producer of natural gas, and the giant Shell Corporations have only recently signed an agreement that would basically allow the European monopoly to start selling its products on the US market, the largest of the kind in the world. The products wil... |
13 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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A new European communications satellite was successfully launched into orbit on Friday, at 12:24 pm EDT (1624 GMT) from the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Space reports. The mission lasted more than nine hours, and the device was positioned on a high-altitude geosynchronous transfer orbit. A 191-... |
4 April 2009
06:02 GMT |
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On Monday, a senior Air Force official announced that the United States would begin to track all the 800 maneuverable satellites in Earth's orbit, by October 1st. The decision was prompted by the February collision of a US communications satellite with an out-of-service, Soviet-era spacecraft, an accident that l... |
1 April 2009
02:29 GMT |
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According to a new strategic plan currently under consideration in the Kremlin, the Russian Federation now plans to create a new strategic task force that would serve the sole purpose of protecting the nation's interests in the disputed Arctic region. Over the years, the country has made it pretty clear that it ... |
28 March 2009
06:03 GMT |
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The world's busiest spaceport is located in Kazakhstan and is operated by the Russian Federation. The Asian nation has leased the land on which the 7,000-square-kilometer-large cosmodrome is located, deep within the Kazakh steppe, and so the Russians have the right to use it until 2050. They have to pay approxim... |
26 March 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Originally scheduled to be launched on March 16th, the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite was, instead, boosted to orbit on Tuesday, in a launch sequence that culminated in a successful lift-off at 10:21 am EDT (1421 GMT). GOCE's purpose ... |
18 March 2009
02:33 GMT |
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During a video conference between Moscow and Washington, to which reporters from both countries participated, Russian State of Duma Deputy Sergei Markov shocked everyone when he claimed that his assistant launched the attacks that crippled the entire Estonian IT infrastructure back in 2007. Sergei Markov is a Deputy... |
9 March 2009
09:01 GMT |
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A man from the western parts of Russia died yesterday after consuming copious amounts of pancakes at a regional fair. After eating more than 43 of the desserts, which were filled with cream and other goodies, 48-year-old Boris Isayev collapsed on stage, right before the eyes of the audience. Despite efforts to revive... |
6 March 2009
08:34 GMT |
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The final hopes of a survivor of the last Russian Czar that the people may have had in Russia have been recently ruined, as authorities have announced that the remains of the last two heirs of Czar Nicholas II have been identified via forensic pieces of evidence. In order to make sure that the find is correct, Russia... |
3 March 2009
02:48 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally decided on the two astronauts it will place in a space simulator for 105 days, along with 4 other Russian crew members. The goal of the experiment is to replicate the exact conditions of a trip to Mars, which, in keeping with current technologies, can take up to 18 months t... |
27 February 2009
05:25 GMT |
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On Tuesday, two satellites collided in orbit over Siberia, at an altitude of approximately 490 miles (790 kilometers), spilling debris all around the impact site. The Russian spacecraft involved in the crash was out of commission for a long time, while the American satellite was still operational. However, Iridium Sa... |
12 February 2009
02:36 GMT |
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On Friday, Russia announced having managed to successfully launch its newest satellite into orbit, and that the probe already began sending back data. What makes this launch more special than others is the fact that the Coronas Photon is the most important scientific device the Russian Federation deployed to orbit in... |
31 January 2009
05:06 GMT |
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While most political and military experts agree that the inclusion of Iran in the club of nuclear powers is premature and poses great international risks, everyone else seems to forget that the “democratic” countries have been those responsible for the proliferation of atomic bombs and the idea to use the... |
26 January 2009
07:08 GMT |
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On Monday, the international contest whose goal was to find a suitable emblem for the Soyuz TMA-14 spaceflight mission patch ended, with 12-year-old Anna Chibiskova from Moscow as the winner. Her drawing, depicting two hands holding the Earth against a colorful background, will be worn by all three crew members of th... |
5 January 2009
04:03 GMT |
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As most of the international community focuses its attention on drug traffic, cyber-crime is becoming increasingly aggressive, and the number of Internet attacks, be they through denial-of-service, spam, malicious software or viruses, is constantly going up. Hackers in Russia and China are mainly behind these attacks... |
30 December 2008
09:34 GMT |
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This piece of news will probably come as a great disappointment to most HTC fans who do not reside in Russia, since for the moment that's the only market where the Max 4G is available. Even though the device is pretty much a stranger to most, this is no reason to keep it away from curious fans. Fortunately for ... |
22 December 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Oleg Teterin is a Russian entrepreneur that set out to trademark the infamous online “wink” emoticon, composed of a semi-column, a dash and a parenthesis, to his business, the mobile ad company Superfone. The man says that, since smiley faces such as :-), :) and ;) are also very similar to his trademark, ... |
12 December 2008
08:15 GMT |
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It becomes more and more obvious that the former great leader of China until 1976, poet and calligrapher Mao Zedong, couldn't have been more wrong when he stated that his country couldn't even put a potato into space. While his statement was partially true, since China has yet to carry the respective vegeta... |
5 December 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's plans, of curbing Russian gas flares to 5 percent by 2011, went up in flames on Thursday, when the Energy and Natural Resources ministries announced that the country would be unable to sustain such massive cuts in such a short time. Instead, the two state departments said that 201... |
4 December 2008
10:11 GMT |
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After the U.S. Strategic Command banned the use of removable media on the army's networks last week, new details about the incidents that might have triggered this drastic decision surfaced. The networks of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been crippled, while... |
1 December 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Russia is perhaps one of the biggest markets of games in the world, but, unfortunately, the high piracy rate is scaring off developers and publishers, which choose not to launch their products there, or to delay their arrival in the European country.Up until recently, quite a lot of gaming companies denied makin... |
13 November 2008
03:48 GMT |
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iPass Inc., the North American developer and distributor of software and services, has recently announced the expansion and enhancement of its Wi-Fi network across Russia. This is done following an agreement with VimpelCom, which owns Beeline - Russia's second largest mobile carrier (about 42 million subscr... |
8 October 2008
11:18 GMT |
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As Itar-Tass news agency reports, Anatoly Perminov, chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency, visited Caracas in order to talk to Venezuelan and Cuban officials. Within the recent few months, Russia has made efforts to improve its relations with both of these countries, as none of them is on good terms with Ame... |
20 September 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Fly Mobile might not be among the biggest names in the handset industry, but this doesn't stop the company from releasing new products. The latest two phones to come under the Fly brand are both packing dual SIM capabilities, hence allowing users to put two SIM cards at the same time in any of them. Named Fly DS... |
6 September 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The owner of the only news portal in Ingushetia, a Russian province bordering Chechnya, was killed while in police arrest. After getting off the plane that was bringing him home, he was detained by the police and, as he was escorted to a waiting car, he was shot in the head. Despite being driven as soon as possi... |
1 September 2008
03:28 GMT |
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A recent study performed by comScore shows that the Russian Internet market is the fastest growing in Europe. As of last year, the Russian Internet audience expanded by 27%, 6% more compared to the second European country in the chart, France. Ireland is the third to have developed its audience at a fast pace, being... |
28 August 2008
05:38 GMT |
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