Russian officials have suggested that the Chinese cellphone company Huawei replace Google’s Android OS with the Aurora OS developed in Russia, reports the Bell citing two informed sources.

The idea was brought up shortly before the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in a meeting between Huawei Chief Executive Director Guo Ping and Russian Minister of Digital Development and Communications Konstantin Noskov, and was later discussed at meetings between Vladimir Putin and Xi …

The Russian government has allowed to classify the information about legal entities working in the occupied Crimea. The corresponding resolution No. 729 was published and signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on June 10.

The resolution states that access to information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of the Russian Federation may be restricted if a company works on the territory of the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. Companies that work on the Russian state defense …

Russian officials are continuing their attempts to block all the ways to connect to the internet that cannot be monitored by the state.

The Ministry of Digital Development and Communications has drafted a bill to impose fines for connecting to satellite internet in circumvention of the federal censorship agency’s blocking mechanisms.

According to the bill, which was published on the official legal information portal, the use of “satellite communication networks under the jurisdiction of …

On Wednesday night, June 12, Israel carried out several air strikes against targets in the Tel al-Hara area, located in the Syrian Province of Daraa, reported the Syrian state news agency SANA and several other Arabic-language publications.

According to SANA, air defense systems of Assad’s Army were activated during the attack. No injuries have been reported.

According to some Arabic-language news sources, the Israeli Air Force used F-16 aircraft during the operation.

It is also reported …

Lithuania sent Ukraine about 256 thousand euros worth of unused ammunition for Soviet small arms, reported by Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, June 11.

“About 1 million rounds of Soviet-made rifles and machine guns, which are no longer used by the Lithuanian army, were transported to Ukraine by Ukrainian Air Force military transport aircraft,” according to the statement.

The ammunition was sent in accordance with the bilateral agreement on cooperation in the field of defense to …

This year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense did not enter into a contract to manufacture Oplot tanks, repots Radio Svoboda.

The publication learned that the reason for this is the Russian parts in the tank. Currently, they have not been replaced by Ukrainian or foreign analogues.

“This decision was motivated by the information sent to us by state owned Ukroboronprom that it was unwilling to conclude a state contract because it had to carry out work to import substitutions for certain components …

Spain’s Honorary Consul in Uzbekistan Alfonso Lopez Pandiella participated in the Russian X-Waters competition on June 1, swimming across the Kerch Strait from the Chushka Spit, in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia, to the Yeni-Kale fortress in Kerch, reported Radio Svoboda.

Pandiella confirmed this fact to journalists but declined to comment on whether the organizers had warned him about the consequences of visiting the annexed Crimea.

“I don’t know. No comment,” he said.

The diplomat also …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed 15 heads of the Local Government Administrations. The decrees on their dismissal have been posted on the President’s website.

The heads of Kyiv, Kherson, Odesa, Lviv, and Khmelnytskyi, as well as other regions administrations, have been dismissed. The press service of the President also published decrees on the appointment of 13 people who will be working as governors.

On June 10 Zelensky’s press Secretary Yuliya Mendel noted that Zelensky …