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  • Google pays $7,600 fine to Russia after faultering

    Google pays $7,600 fine to Russia after faultering

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Google has paid a fine of 500,000 rubles (7,616 dollars) for failing to remove search links to banned information, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday. Roskomnadzor imposed the fine in December, accusing Google of breaching the Russian legislation that search engine operators are obliged to exclude links to Internet pages with prohibited information from…

  • Facebook’s Sandberg cites need to do more after reports of Russia meddling

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Facebook Inc’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Tuesday the company needs to step up its efforts to curb misinformation. Sandberg said this after research revealed that Russia-backed organizations targeted African-Americans. The groups targeted were those who favored Hillary Clinton in order to suppress voter turnout during the 2016 election. U.S. intelligence agencies had…

  • Ukraine’s farcical drama – Owei Lakemfa

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    Femi Ajasa
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    By Owei Lakemfa. When the Ukrainian government, against warnings by Russia, this Sunday, sent a tug boat, the Yani Kapu, and two gunboats, the Nikopol and the Berdyansk into the Kerch Strait in the Crimea controlled by the latter, it could not have been hoping for a joyous reception. It could also not have hoped…

  • Ukraine bans entry to Russian adult men

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    Bayo Millz
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    Ukraine has banned Russian adult men aged 16 to 60 years from entering Ukraine, the head of the border service, Petro Tsygykal, said in a televised meeting on Friday. “Today, the entry of foreigners is limited, primarily citizens of the Russian Federation – non-admission of citizens of the Russian Federation aged from 16 to 60,…

  • Google suffers services interruption as traffic reroutes to China, Russia

    Google suffers services interruption as traffic reroutes to China, Russia

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Google on Monday suffered interruption of services due to a configuration error made by an internet service provider in Nigeria during a network upgrade that resulted in traffic being rerouted to China and Russia. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports MainOne, a major internet service provider, confirmed the development, but said “we are not aware that any Google…

  • Facebook blocks more accounts linked to foreign entity

    Facebook blocks more accounts linked to foreign entity

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Facebook on Tuesday said it blocked more accounts, in addition to the about 115 accounts it blocked over the weekend, in the run-up to the US midterm elections that saw Democrats capture US House majority. The company said a website claiming to be associated with Russia-based Internet Research agency published a list of Instagram accounts…

  • Russia plans to create long-term base on moon

    Russia plans to create long-term base on moon

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Russia plans to create a long-term base on the surface of the moon as part of its lunar programme and study the satellite with the help of robot avatars, Roscosmos Chief, Dmitry Rogozin. said on Tuesday. “This is about creating a long-term base, naturally, not habitable, but visited. “But basically, it is the transition to…

  • Mid-term elections: U.S. warns Russia, China, Iran to stay off

    Mid-term elections: U.S. warns Russia, China, Iran to stay off

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    Kehinde Ajose
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    The U.S. has warned against foreign interference in its mid-term elections, particularly from Russia, China and Iran. All the 435 House of Representatives seats, representing the 50 states are up for grabs in the election, holding on Tuesday. Thirty five of the 100 senate seats are being contested and gubernatorial elections are to be held…

  • Breaking: U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has fired back at President Donald Trump following Trump’s comment that he “never took control” of the Justice Department. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Sessions had recused himself from the Department of Justice’s investigation into links between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. This resulted in President Trump lambasting Sessions in an…

  • U.S. to hit Russia with new sanctions on Aug. 22

    U.S. to hit Russia with new sanctions on Aug. 22

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    Bayo Millz
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    Russia-U.S. confrontation is extending to the economic and trade field as Washington is poised to hit Moscow new and powerful sanctions on Aug. 22. Russia views the move as a declaration of “economic war”. The U.S. State Department said that Washington would impose new sanctions on Russia on or around Aug. 22 over the alleged…