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Russians rush to download Wackpedia before it disappears
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Ironic

Russians are apparently downloading an local copy of the Russian-language Wikipedia before Tsar Putin’s goons kick down their door and demand it be switched off.

Open source might be a Ukraine war casualty
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Weaponised and bogged down

Open source and cloud technology might be collateral damage in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Russia will run out of data storage in two months
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Putin told to get off our cloud

As Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine and started to carpet bomb its cities, he apparently did not figure on running out of cloud space.

Russian claims Facebook and Instagram are extremists
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All those pictures of cats, dinners and red pandas anger Putin 

Daft Russian prosecutors are seeking to label Facebook and Instagram as "extremist" which puts your Facebook account in the same league as the Taliban and Chechen rebels.

French cuts Russian staff from network
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Friday, 11 March 2022 12:06

French cuts Russian staff from network


Excusez-moi, we just don’t trust you anymore.

France's largest bank BNP Paribas has cut off its Russia-based workforce from its internal computer systems in a move to defend itself against a cyberattack.

Meta allows you to call for the death of Putin and Russian soldiers
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Just no one else

It looks like you are allowed to call for the death of Tsar Putin and his imperialist stormtroopers on Facebook even if you still can’t demand the death of anyone else.

Russian IT workers find themselves sanctioned
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Happens when your workers are modern internationalists but your politicians are old fashioned imperialists

Thanks to the internet modern Russian IT workers have been making a rather good living working online for European and US IT companies, but now that has come crashing to a halt.

Lumen pulls out of Russia
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Wednesday, 09 March 2022 12:37

Lumen pulls out of Russia


Increased security risk

One of the big providers of Internet backbone Lumen Technologies is pulling the plug on Russia because of an "increased security risk."

Red Hat gives up on Russia and Belarus
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Wednesday, 09 March 2022 12:22

Red Hat gives up on Russia and Belarus


Follows IBM

Open Saucy Red Hat is halting all sales and services to companies in Russia and Belarus -- a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has put Red Hat employees in harm's way.

Russians take on British sanctions
Published in Network
Thursday, 03 March 2022 13:34

Russians take on British sanctions


Bend the knee to Putin or will we will not launch your satellites 

The Russian Space agency has told the UK government it must sell its stake in OneWeb and the company must promise not to use its satellites for military purposes or else.