Wildberries, “Russia’s Amazon,” goes head to head with the e-commerce giant in Europe Founded in 2004 by former teacher Tatyana Bakalchuk, Wildberries has since leapfrogged larger competitors to become one of the country’s largest online retailers.
Russian hack penetrates US computer systems, Trump downplays threat The attack is believed to have been carried out by the Russian foreign intelligence service known as the SVR. Russia has denied involvement. On December 19, President Donald Trump downplayed the threat of a massive hack that affected several federal agencies in the United States. The hack came through a
Biden’s strife with Russia continues, as Putin calls his observations “anti-Russian rhetoric” Biden has been largely critical of Russia throughout his presidential campaign, claiming Moscow to be the biggest threat to the US elections Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, October 7, called United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s observations about Moscow “anti-Russian rhetoric.” “As far as the candidate from
Russia stays “committed” to selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran despite US pressure Moscow has made it clear that the escalating tensions between the US and Iran will not stop it from getting into a defense deal with Tehran. As the expiry date, October 18, of the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on Iran draws closer, Russia has stated it will consider selling
Russian President Putin’s political adversaries keep being poisoned Putin has denied any involvement in the poisoning of his political adversaries – going so far as to suggest Alexei Navalny poisoned himself – but his critics have little doubt he was behind the assassination attempts. On September 22, Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia’s main opposition party, Russia of the
Russian vaccine becomes the first coronavirus vaccine to be approved, but concerns linger over rushed testing process After less than two months of human testing, a Russian coronavirus vaccine became the first to be granted regulatory approval, President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday. “It works effectively enough, forms a stable immunity and, I repeat, it has gone through all necessary tests,” said Putin at a cabinet meeting,
President Trump continues to side with Putin over US intelligence Following reports last weekend that Russia was offering Taliban combatants a bounty for killing American troops and their allies, United States President Donald Trump denied knowing about the scheme. A day later, Trump stated that the intel on the bounties was unreliable. Russia also denied the validity of the reports,