Communication

The ability to use the Russian search engine by default will be provided from July 1, which search engine will be - will be determined by the Cabinet.

It is possible that in the future Twitter will have to be completely blocked in Russia.

Yandex has launched its own system for paying for purchases - Yandex Pay. The service works with Mastercard, Visa and Mir cards of any banks. Cashback and other bonuses for cardholders remain.

Foreign platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok may be required to pay "tax for Russian bloggers on blog advertising revenue".

Telegram, Facebook and Twitter face heavy fines for administrative violations of Russian law. TikTok and Google were also identified as offender companies.

Messenger WhatsApp will stop working on iPhone smartphones running iOS 9 and below. This information is reported by the thematic portal WABetaInfo.

The largest Russian mobile operator MTS announced the launch of the first in Russia user pilot 5G communication network in the 4.9 GHz band in 14 popular locations in Moscow.

The Chinese company ranked third in the world in smartphone shipments after South Korea's «Samsung Electronics» and the US's «Apple» in 2020.

Russian scientists have created a communication system that allows transmitting signals using the effect of reflection from the traces of meteors flying in the Earth's atmosphere.

According to a Russian parliamentarian, Roskomnadzor must use technical means to combat Twitter, after blocking more than a hundred Russian accounts, symmetric measures must be taken.

The head of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands, Eric Akerbom, claims without evidence that the country's special services allegedly "every day catch hackers from both China and Russia."

Roskomnadzor requires Clubhouse to restore access to the account of the Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov and explain the reasons for the blocking.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to speak in the Clubhouse app, created for voice communication and online conferences.

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, commented on the photos with lanterns on his Instagram account.

According to CNN, the social network Instagram has deleted the account of the nephew of the 35th American President John F. Kennedy, environmental activist and lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr., due to false claims about the coronavirus and vaccines against it.