Russia orders mandatory content on Netflix

Russia’s state media watchdog will require Netflix to offer state television channels to its Russian customers after it added the U.S.-based streaming service to its register of “audio-visual services” Tuesday.

Most of the iPhone users in Russia do not mind pre-installed apps- poll shows

The majority of iPhone users in Russia do not mind pre-installed applications on their smartphones, but three-fourths of them prefer choosing all apps for their devices on their own and downloading them from App Store. This is according to a poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center VTsIOM.

Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin becomes the first reporter in space

The TASS news agency became the first world media organization to operate aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by establishing a news office in orbit. The agency will report on the life and work of the station. News, photos and videos will be available across TASS websites.

Russian cosmonaut, Hero of Russia, Alexander Misurkin became the first TASS special reporter in space. He arrived at the station aboard the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, together with Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his associate Yozo Hirano.

Misurkin will report on various experiments and tests carried out aboard the station.

On November 17, TASS and Roscosmos signed a memorandum on cooperation. Commenting on the memorandum, TASS CEO Sergey Mikhailov said that it is a great honor for all TASS employees to have cosmonauts as colleagues, while Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin expressed his certainty that opening a TASS office on the ISS will make it possible to share news about the Russian space industry to more people.

TASS’ operation on Earth is made possible by almost 2,000 employees. The agency has regional information centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, with dozens of news offices operating in Russia’s regions.

The agency has 63 bureaus in 60 countries. In 16 countries – and now in space, too – TASS reporters are the only representatives of Russian media.

SOURCE: TASS

10 new Moscow metro stations open simultaneously in one day

The capital’s underground is growing incredibly fast. And the latest ten stations of the new ring line started operating simultaneously on December 7, 2021.

‘Avoid going to Turkey’: Russians react to ambassador’s assassination

After the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey in Ankara on Dec. 19, Russian officials and ordinary citizens mourn the loss of the diplomat, condemn terrorism and ask the question: how was it possible for an assassin to reach the ambassador so easily?

Moscow’s first clothes store for Orthodox believers

Russian women with conservative tastes in clothing now have a boutique of their own in the Russian capital: Baryshnya-Krestyanka is Moscow’s first clothes store specializing in attire for Orthodox Christians.