Russia’s Court for Intellectual Property Rights has rejected a lawsuit by the company “Intellect and Rights” attempting to overturn a patent office decision not to grant the company ownership over the brand “Pseudonym Platov.” The court’s decision indicates that the brand name was rejected because it uses a pseudonym that belonged to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his KGB training years.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has removed three Russian companies — TsAO, Vertikal, and Unicom — from its list of sanctioned entities. They were first added to the list on December 5 for their alleged ties to Denis Gusev, whom U.S. officials say is the leader of the Evil Corp hacking collective. Evil Corp stands accused of stealing about $50 million in total from banks around the world. The Treasury did not give a reason for removing the three companies from its blacklist.

How Russia’s ruling party is using dark money in the run-up to the election that will decide Putin’s political future Alexey Druzhinin / Press Service of the Russian President / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Dmitry Medvedev speaks as the chair of the United Russia party during the plenary session of the 19th United Russia Party Congress in Moscow. November 23, 2019 The 2021 State Duma elections will be crucially important for the current regime.

Andy Wong / A The United States and China agreed on the first part of the trade transaction, which provides for the phased abolition of American duties for Chinese goods. This was reported by the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC. This happened two days before the United States planned to introduce new tariffs, some of 25%, for Chinese imports with a total value of about $ 360 billion.

Nginx co-founder Maxim Konovalov explains Rambler's litigation against his company, which develops the world’s most popular web-server Nginx.com Nginx co-founder Maxim Konovalov Russia’s IT industry is in the midst of a major conflict between businesses belonging to “Rambler Group” co-owner Alexander Mamut and the company “Nginx,” created by Igor Sysoev and his partner Maxim Konovalov. Nginx’s key product is the eponymous web-server used by more than a third of the world’s websites.

Four years ago, he won the election contrary to the Kremlin’s desire - and now he could not resist his attack Sergey Karpukhin / TASS On December 12, Vladimir Putin fired the Irkutsk governor from the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Sergei Levchenko. Formally, the resignation occurred "of his own free will." In 2015, the communist defeated the current governor Sergei Eroshchenko and became the first oppositionist to win the election of the head of the region after their return in 2012.

Novaya Gazeta / YouTube One of the mercenaries who took part in torturing and beheading a Syrian deserter is pictured in 2017. In 2017, a deserter from Bashar al-Assad’s army was murdered. His body was then dismembered and burned. In November 2019, Novaya Gazeta revealed that mercenaries from the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) had taken part in the killing. The newspaper also published a video of the alleged Russian mercenaries cutting off the Syrian’s head.

The US Department of the Treasury has excluded the Russian companies CAO LLC, Vertical LLC and Unicom LLC from the sanctions list. They were blacklisted on 5 December as being associated with Denis Gusev. According to US authorities, Gusev runs the hacker group Evil Corp, which stole a total of $50 million from banks around the world. The US Treasury does not indicate the reason for the exclusion from the black list. Interfax .

Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have established a prize for the authors of the best texts, videos or investigations on the topic of domestic violence in Russia. This is stated in a message from the competition organizers received by Meduza. Work will be accepted within two months. The competition jury will select three winners, each of whom will receive one thousand euros as a reward.

The Sollers automobile plant in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, plans to begin serial production of Russian Aurus cars in the first quarter of 2021. This, as reported by Interfax, is stated in a presentation given at the plant to the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. The first pilot batch of Aurus is scheduled to be released at the plant in November 2020, the presentation says.

Rambler Group claims exclusive rights to world’s most popular web-server software, six months after it's sold to U.S. company for 670 million dollars Yuri Maryanov / Kommersant On Thursday, December 12, Russian law enforcement raided the Moscow office of the IT company “Nginx,” which owns the eponymous web-server used by almost 500 million websites around the world. According to several reports, Nginx co-founders Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov spent several hours in police interrogation.

The Voronezh House of Actors unilaterally refused to provide the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with a hall for a solemn meeting in honor of the 140th anniversary of Joseph Stalin. Director Vera Ilyashenko told Kommersant that the communists "didn't warn about the nature of the upcoming event" in advance.

These cards were published in 2019, but they remain relevant. The bill declaring December 31 a holiday at the federal level in 2020 was not adopted. Regional leaders across the country began declaring December 31 a day off, and Saturday, December 28, a working day. It all started in the Tomsk region . And now this initiative has already been taken up by more than a dozen governors and heads of republics. No, not always.

Jennifer Coolidge / AP / Scanpix / Leta In the town of Blo-Hill in the state of Menn on the board, where residents hang an ad of everything in the world, a message appeared that could touched many: “The duck is looking for a duck. A lonely duck is looking for a friend. The partner has recently died. Only serious offers. " The announcement, as it turned out, was written by the farmer Kris Morris living near Blo-Hill.

The co -founder of Nginx, Maxim Konovalov, was searched on the complaint of his former employer - Rambler. We talked with him nginx.com A large conflict has arisen on the Russian IT market between the structures of businessman Alexander Mamut, who is a co-owner of the Rambler Group, and Nginx, created by Igor Sysoev and his partner Maxim Konovalov. Nginx key product is the most popular web server in the world.