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73 storiesParamount Skydance closes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition
Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
Russian government approves bioeconomy development strategy to 2036
Russia's government approved a bioeconomy development strategy running to 2036, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting with deputy premiers, according to official and business outlets. The strategy defines priority areas for bio…
Trump announces start of construction of US Navy shipyard in Baltimore
US President Donald Trump announced the start of construction of a new shipyard for the US Navy in Baltimore, describing it as the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War II. TASS reported the complex will be built in Mary…
Huawei and Qualcomm sign multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G and AI
Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year patent licensing agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, computing and networking technologies, with cross-licensing of their patent portfolios. Qualcomm will additionally buy a number of…
Netherlands proposes civilian reserve of 150,000 for emergencies
The Netherlands has proposed creating a civilian reserve for crises, with RTL reporting a target of 150,000 reservists for emergency situations, according to TASS. The reported roles include drivers, security guards and mechanics. RBC repor…
Moscow court fines Garage museum security chief 100,000 rubles over LGBT propaganda
A Moscow magistrate court fined Sergei Klyucherev, head of the security service at the Garage museum, 100,000 rubles on a charge of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, TASS, Kommersant and RBC reported. Kommersant said the case …
Mishustin orders digital ministry to tighten Gosuslugi account protection
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered the Digital Development Ministry to strengthen protection of accounts on the Gosuslugi government services portal and to work out additional conditions for logging in or restoring access. Speaking at…
Rostelecom launches TEA NEXT trans-Eurasian fiber-optic line
Rostelecom launched the TEA NEXT trans-Eurasian fiber-optic line at the Digital Solutions – 2026 forum in the presence of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the company and state news agency TASS reported. The line runs from Russia's western…
Fourth auction to sell Moscow’s Rizhsky railway station fails with no bids
A fourth auction to sell Moscow’s Rizhsky railway station, owned by Russian Railways (RZD), was declared void after no bids were submitted, according to the bidding materials. The lot was offered at a starting price of 4 billion rubles. RZD…
Russian PM Mishustin to speak as “Digital Solutions” forum opens in Moscow
The “Цифровые решения” (Digital Solutions) forum opened in Moscow on 6 October, with more than 13,000 people registered, according to RIA Novosti. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will take part, speaking at the main plenary session and tou…
Germany sees threefold rise in military service refusal applications in 2026
Applications to refuse military service in Germany in 2026 were three times higher than a year earlier, RIA Novosti and TASS reported. RBC said the filings came after a new military service system was introduced and exceeded all application…
ASOS reports possible client data leak after cyberattack; shares fall
British online clothing retailer ASOS was hit by a hacker attack, with the attackers saying they breached its app and threatening to leak a database. ASOS said personal information, including surnames and contact details, may have been acce…
Vanity Fair names OpenAI's Sam Altman most influential person, ahead of Musk
Vanity Fair has placed OpenAI head Sam Altman first in its ranking of the most influential people, according to TASS, Kommersant and RIA Novosti. TASS reported he also placed ahead of Elon Musk and of Anthropic head Dario Amodei, who is sec…
Sierra Leone ready to lease land to Russian businesses for coffee growing, envoy says
Sierra Leone’s ambassador to Russia, Mohamed Yongawo, said in an interview with TASS that the state is ready to lease land to Russian businesses to grow coffee and that Russian businessmen could buy coffee directly from Sierra Leone to cut …
Moscow to require couriers to pass annual traffic rules test from Oct. 15, 2026
Moscow couriers must pass a mandatory test on traffic rules and work standards, and from Oct. 15, 2026 delivery services in the city cannot assign work to those who have not passed it. Couriers need at least 80% correct answers, with the re…
RTK-DC sets up certification center for trusted IT infrastructure
RTK-DC, described as a full-cycle IT service provider, has created a Certification Center for Trusted IT Infrastructure under Rostelecom's voluntary certification system “Trusted Digital Environment”, according to TASS and technology outlet…
Russian software sales reach almost 3 trln rubles in first half, Mishustin says
Russian software product sales came to almost 3 trillion rubles in the first half of 2026, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at the plenary session of the “Цифровые решения” forum in Moscow. Vedomosti and Interfax put the increase at ab…
Mishustin calls for faster shift to domestic equipment for Russia's 5G networks
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Russia must speed up the transition to domestically made telecommunications equipment to create conditions for 5G networks, speaking at the Digital Solutions forum. He said the shift was needed …
Russia plans to nearly double three-year internet filtering budget to 60 bln rubles
An appendix to Russia's draft three-year budget allocates almost 60 billion rubles to operating the system that filters and blocks internet resources, up from 32 billion rubles planned for the same period two years ago. The money is to go t…
Russian government closes Moscow Ostafyevo aerodrome and border crossing
The Russian government has decreed the closure of Moscow's Ostafyevo aerodrome for the servicing of aircraft, TASS, RBC and Vedomosti reported. TASS and Vedomosti said the air border crossing point through the state border located there wil…