The multiplayer “Devil's Third Online” thriller being developed by the creator of “Dead or Alive” fighting game Tomonobu Itagaki will have the official Russian version.

The Internal Revenue Service of the USA suspects the Russian hackers of embezzling 100 thousand records of personal data of taxpayers from the computer system.

It has turned out that the Internet in the Far East, both fixed and mobile, is the most expensive for users, as of February 2015. The cheapest rate for fixed access to the network in this region makes up an average of 600 roubles per month with download speed of only 4 megabits per second. The cheapest and quickest access to the World Wide Web can still be found in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

The Chinese online store Aliexpress has become a leader in Russia in the number of downloads of all free software in the official Google Play store for Android.

64 percent of Russian Internet users became victims of cyber fraud at least once.

The Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications began to lock the pages of the online encyclopedia “Lurkmore” with forbidden information.

The Ministry of Culture explained the draft law on “The Tax on the Internet”.

Pavel Durov suspects WhatsApp of copying Telegram. In Durov’s opinion, his work on Telegram makes it possible to force larger applications to improve the quality of their products and to predict their actions.

Sony SmartWatch 3 SWR50 will cost 9000 roubles in Russia. The sales will begin in the next few days.

The Russian market of electronic books grew by 37% - up to $ 13 million - at year-end of 2013, as compared to the previous year.

Russia represented by Roskomnadzor took the third place among the other countries in the number of requests to delete the data in Twitter.

Facebook delegation arrived in Russia to hold a secret meeting with the leaders of Roskomnadzor. The company is interested in the new Russian law on the storage of users' personal data.

The registration of the first domain names in a new Internet zone .rus (.рус) will start in early 2014.

The Russian Internet Company “Yandex” is not planning to sign the memorandum of Roskomnadzor concerning cooperation with the copyright owners in connection with the war on pirated video content. The same position was taken by the American Google Corporation.

The number of the internet users in Russia is going up rapidly from year to year. Now the internet is actively spread not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in the remote regions. The competition between the internet service providers (ISPs) is growing as well, and this makes them improve the quality, speed and convenience of the offered types of linkup that are becoming more profound. Besides, pricing policy is constantly changing. Our overview of the most popular Russian ISPs might help you to make the right choice.

Russians have become one of the most intense and frequent users of various IT products and services in the world. This can be the reason why the time the Russian people spend on social media networks is more than twice the global average. They create communities, integrate their businesses into the social networks, send instant messages to friends and participate in discussions with peers and colleagues. What are their main preferences and concerns? What are they searching for while being on-line? You will find the answers below.

The last two weeks have been a nightmare for Russian Internet users. First, online SMS's went public; then it was the data for online shoppers, including sex shop clients; finally, yesterday it was the order data for Russian Railways customers.