... Federal Grid Company and Russian Railways, is mandated to supply electricity for the project. The government has allocated 2 billion rubles ($67 million) to help alleviate the costs of providing access and electricity. This is the same process by which mobile service was set up for the Amur (Chita to Khabarovsk) road last year. Putin said in August 2010 that coverage should be provided for the Amur road. In February 2011, the Big Three operators — VimpelCom, Mobile TeleSystems and MegaFon —...

Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev wants to force mobile providers to let customers keep their cell-phone numbers while switching providers. Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev wants to force mobile providers to let customers keep their cell-phone numbers while switching providers, his top economic...

Protesters have stuck out another night in a mobile camp at Chistiye Prudy, where they fought off an attempt to leave them without toilets and began settling into normal routines of exercise and cleaning, despite authorities stating they would clear the camp. Protesters have stuck out another...

Cellular operator Mobile TeleSystems says it is returning to the isolated Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan almost 1 1/2 years after its operations in the country were suspended. Cellular operator Mobile TeleSystems says it is returning to the isolated Central Asian...

... most points" for meeting the ministry's criteria, it said Thursday on its website. "The primary goal of Roskomnadzor, which developed the terms of the competition, was to provide the people of the Russian Federation as fast as possible with mobile broadband services using the LTE standard," the ministry said. Roskomnadzor oversees communications regulations. Analysts have said the Big Three — MegaFon, Beeline and Mobile TeleSystems — have the best chances. But the ministry said...

Mobile TeleSystems is rolling out a service that will let its customers make purchases and check bank balances with a wave of their phones. Mobile TeleSystems is rolling out a payment service Wednesday that will let its cell-phone customers make purchases...

Mobile TeleSystems reported a 59 percent rise in quarterly profit, largely due to a currency gain, while revenue increased 3 percent. MTS said Monday that it kept its top position in Russia's mobile-phone market with 69.38 million subscribers, a 0.8 percent...

... vehicles," and says he is seeing sales grow each year. Yelashkin said he sells more budget models, starting from 2.3 million rubles ($73,800), than anything else, but offers luxury vehicles with prices of up to 11 million rubles. Whether you call them mobile homes, camper vans, or recreational vehicles, the holidays on wheels that are ubiquitous in Europe and North America are still rare in Russia. Andrei Artyukhov, president of the country's small Caravan League, says his nascent organization has...

... virtual world. Sharing all kinds of information, starting from personal thoughts and ending with present location, has become the trend captivating people's minds and lifestyle with the help of different means of Internet connection. Another boom is the mobile devices that can be used anytime, anywhere. So probably there is no easier way to immediately share information about the company, its products and services, special offers, news, photos and other entertaining data than online. And precisely speaking:...

... Symantec said more than 60 percent of infected resources are normal sites that hackers have altered to distribute their viruses. Blogs and social networks were the largest sources of infection, representing 19.2 percent of infection sources. Infections in mobile devices also saw a sharp rise, increasing as much as 93 percent due to increasingly sophisticated attacks targeting mobile operating systems like Google's Android. Russian cybercrime investigations company Group-IB released a report evaluating...

Opposition protesters spent the weekend shuffling around the city trying to resist efforts by authorities to stamp out mobile opposition camps. Opposition protesters spent the weekend shuffling around the city trying to resist efforts by authorities to stamp out mobile opposition camps. Police said at least 50 were arrested over the weekend, saying most of those detained...

Sberbank whizzed past Mobile TeleSystems to become the strongest Russian brand in the world, according to an annual global brands ranking. The nation's largest bank was among the fastest risers on the list, jumping 25 spots to 74th place...

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... not to disclose what he was questioned about, so it was unclear whether he was considered a suspect. Navalny refused to sign the pledge, his lawyer said. Earlier, through his lawyer, Udaltsov appealed to opposition supporters to continue their “mobile protests” — in which demonstrators move from location to location, often a few steps ahead of riot police — and to prepare for a new March of a Million rally on June 12, the Russia Day holiday. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov...

... transactions aimed at making MegaFon the leader in providing services of a new generation — 4G. It is highly likely that Friedman and TeliaSonera, which owns 43.8 percent of shares of MegaFon, will be interested in selling, because up until now, the mobile operator refrained from paying out dividends, and given the high level of costs of deploying 4G networks, the sale may be the only source of money for investment. It should be noted that MegaFon has already begun to provide services in 4G networks...

Mobile TeleSystems, VimpelCom, MegFon and Rostelecom have signed a letter of intent to jointly lay an underwater fiber-optic line between Sakhalin Island, the Magadan region and Kamchatka in the Far East, the country’s top four telecoms providers...

... help victims of law enforcement abuse. New nongovernmental organizations have been formed, and tens of thousands of volunteers who monitored the recent elections disclosed evidence of electoral fraud on the Internet, which has played a critical role in mobilizing the anti-Putin movement. There are five main areas that will ultimately prove the undoing of Putin's autocracy in the next six years: 1. Electoral fraud and manipulation. Even though the State Duma and presidential elections are over, the confrontation...

... quickly becoming the scarce resource. According to ManpowerGroup's most recent Talent Shortage survey, one third of employers around the world are finding it difficult to secure the talent they need. In the Human Age, corporate means of attracting and mobilizing talent will be the competitive differentiator.  In this case, all contemporary practices and philosophies from the 21st century might need to be refined in terms of how companies hire, reward, engage and develop talent. Here are some recommendations...

... protestors was detained by riot police shortly after 1:00am, the mood was light-hearted, with protestors jostling each other to get on the waiting police vehicles. The driver of one of the city buses filmed the protestors being led on to his bus on his mobile phone.  “It's very beautiful what is going on now,” Aleksei Arkhipov, a teacher who was watching the events unfold, told The Moscow Times. “Because when people climb into police vans voluntarily and applaud each other it's a...

... "On the whole there's a mixing of the instruction of the team with that of the individual employee," she said. In addition, a few Russian companies have followed the example of their foreign counterparts and started to use "m-learning" (mobile learning, or instruction by mobile phone). Leadership and management skills are highly demanded instruction topics. Programs related to the talent pool and preserving the consistency of operations are also once again popular. At the same time...