New Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia #2

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Russia launches low-orbit national 5G communication satellites for the first time, 05.20.2024.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A Russian company has launched three more low-orbit national communications satellites, marking the first time the vehicles have used 5G connectivity, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Media reported.

"The Russian company Bureau 1440 launched three other national low-orbit communications satellites. For the first time in the history of the Russian space industry, vehicles are using the 5G NTN standard to communicate with subscribers," the statement notes.

The ministry said the development took less than 14 months.

The satellites of the Rassvet-2 mission have doubled in mass and dimensions, as more new equipment has been installed.

This is already the company's second research mission.
The first one — Rassvet-1 - was launched in June 2023 and was recognized as a total success.

During the first mission, the speed was 48 megabits per second and the latency was 42 milliseconds. This data allows you to make a video call to several people or watch TV in 4K resolution.

"The results of the Rassvet-2 mission are expected in the coming months," the Russian ministry emphasized.

It added that the devices will continue to be tested for several more months. This will create a national broadband satellite service that will be able to cover the whole of Russia with high-speed internet and will start operating in 2027.

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https://latamnews.lat/20240520/rusia-lanza-por-primera-vez-satelites-nacionales-de-comunicacion-5g-de-orbita-baja-1150611929.html

Rostec Delivers New Components for Russia's First-Ever Communication Satellite, 05.27.2024.

The launch of the satellite into geostationary orbit is expected in 2026 with the help of Proton spacecraft.

Rostec and its enterprises have completed the development of actuators for the microwave switches of the Express-AMU4 satellite and have started their delivery.

These devices will enable the first-ever fully Russian-made satellite to transmit data and provide communications, as reported by the Rostec press service. Actuators are a functional element of automatic control systems. These products include electric motors, electric and hydraulic drives, relay devices, and manipulators.

On the Express-AMU4 satellite, they will enable microwave switches to shift between different radio signals – a feat necessary for data transmission, the creation of fixed and mobile communications, and digital television broadcasting.

“We paid special attention to the fault tolerance and the telemetry system, when developing the new Electronic Component Base, since the actuators will be used in the spacecraft’s payload. By mid-2025, we intend to transfer the entire planned volume of components to the customer,” according to the press service, quoting Alexei Dymovskikh, the CEO of the design bureau.

The Express-AMU4 spacecraft will be the first completely domestic communications vehicle. The launch into geostationary orbit - about 36,000 kilometers above the Earth - is expected in 2026 on a Proton rocket from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240527/rostec-delivers-new-components-for-russias-first-ever-communication-satellite-1118650238.html

Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Russias Baikonur Cosmodrome located in Kazakhstan.

https://www.slkoric.com/id/other-else-55208/996675.html

According to recent news reports, Russia has successfully produced and is currently testing its first domestically manufactured photolithography machine capable of producing 350nm chips. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Vasily Shpak, announced this development during the CIPR conference to TASS.

"We have assembled and manufactured the first domestic photolithography machine, and it is currently undergoing testing as part of the Zelenograd technology production line," he said.

In general, this level of complexity in equipment is assembled by several major manufacturers, with the largest being the Netherlands-based ASML, along with Canon and Nikon.

Although 350-nanometer chips are considered large-scale, they are still utilized in various industries, including automotive, energy, and telecommunications.

Russia will produce photolithography machines: 350nm in 2024, and 65nm in 2026.

According to reports from Russian media, Russia is currently developing and manufacturing photolithography machines for producing chips. Vasily Shpak, the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, stated in a media interview that production of 350nm photolithography machines will begin in 2024, followed by the launch of photolithography machines for producing 130nm process chips in 2026. The production will take place in existing factories in Moscow, Zelenograd, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk.

Vasily Shpak pointed out that currently only two companies globally produce such equipment, including Japan's NIKON and the Netherlands' ASML.

However, these machines are crucial for semiconductor production. He emphasized that without semiconductor sovereignty, there can be no technological sovereignty, leaving a country vulnerable in terms of defense and political sovereignty. Russia has already mastered the technology of using foreign-made 65nm photolithography machines, but due to restrictions on advanced photolithography machine exports to Russia by foreign companies, Russia is urgently developing its own production equipment.

Vasily Shpak stated that in 2024, 211.4 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of domestic electronic products. The decision to develop photolithography machines for 350nm to 65nm stems from the fact that chips within this technological range are widely used in microcontrollers, power electronics, telecommunications circuits, automotive electronics, and other applications, accounting for approximately 60% of the market.

Therefore, there is significant global demand for this equipment, which is expected to remain high for at least 10 years.

When asked about potential obstacles, Vasily Shpak said, "I don't want to complain; all problems are not problems, as this relates to what opportunities we have and the goals we set."

Russia has been isolated from the global catastrophe, by Anton Trofimov for RiaNovosti. 07.19.2024.

If any citizen of a state fortunate enough not to be part of the "great Western civilization" needed a decisive argument in favor of developing national computer systems, they got it. The massive failure that befell Western computer networks has clearly demonstrated that today it is much more profitable to be independent in everything. And above all, in the sphere of information. In the broadest sense of the word.

American Microsoft is the most striking example of thoughtless globalization and monopolization in the high-tech sphere. Looking at how confusedly the representatives of the computer giant react to the global infocollapse, one wonders why it did not happen earlier. Various kinds of alarm bells hinting at the danger of the world being entangled in global computer networks have been heard more than once. But perhaps for the first time, an emergency of such a scale has led not only to business losses or blows to the reputation of companies, but also to purely political costs.

The culprit of the commotion, the American CrowdStrike (down 15.61 percent), and Microsoft (down 1.99 percent) will somehow cope with the fall in shares. It will be much more difficult to explain to the citizens of the Great Western Computer World why in such "authoritarian and backward" countries as Russia and China , the catastrophe had practically no unpleasant consequences.

If Americans, Europeans, Australians or Japanese ask this question, they will have to admit that they themselves paid for this extremely painful lesson for the globalized Western world. It was they who, having elected the current political leaders of the USA and Europe , voted for increasing economic pressure on Russia and China. It was they who joyfully welcomed more and more new sanctions packages and sincerely believed that they were creating insurmountable difficulties for the Russians and Chinese. Which, according to the perverted logic of their world, should have forced us to strive for the Western paradise.

This is where the mistake happened. The more actively Washington and Brussels put pressure on Moscow and Beijing , the faster our import substitution process went. The more we were limited in access to computer technologies with embedded "molecules of democracy", the more actively we developed our own IT sphere. As a result, in 2022-2023 alone, the number of domestic manufacturers in the field of information technology increased by more than half. Due to which it was possible to cover the country's most important needs for its own software and computer systems of wide coverage.

Would this have happened without numerous sanctions and discord with the West? Of course! But it would have taken longer, and the consequences would have been more severe. Without active import substitution, the current failure would have been truly global. And it would have definitely hit Russian users and service providers who would have continued to use imposed imported IT solutions. But Russia was excluded from the Microsoft-woven global network - and thus saved from serious danger.

A typical example. On September 30, 2023, as punishment for conducting the SVO, Russia was disconnected, in particular, from the telecommunications channels of the global provider of services for civil aviation - the Swiss company Societe Internationale de Telecommunication Aeronautiqes. But a year before that, at the end of October 2022, two large Russian air carriers - Aeroflot and S7 Airlines - switched to the domestic ticket booking system , and all the others followed them. By the time our country, according to the plan of the initiators of the sanctions, was supposed to stop flying, we were independent. And we survived the troubles promised to us without any difficulty, flying as we flew.

The same thing happened in all the other high-tech areas affected by the current computer glitch. By the time the Global West decided to cut Russia off from its high achievements, our country understood that it was on the brink of a new Cold War. It was busy developing its own systems and products designed to ensure its sovereignty and security – and was quite successful in this.

Today, experiencing a colossal computer failure, the collective West is unpleasantly surprised to see that there is no high-tech sphere in which Russia would not become independent. Banks are not working in Australia , Japan and other countries? But the Russian NSPK "Mir" is not experiencing problems, and none of its clients have problems with online payments or cash withdrawals. The Japanese cannot pay at McDonald's with cards because they do not work? And we do not have McDonald's (by the way, considered the lowest-quality fast food abroad), and there are no problems with payments in national restaurant chains either! The Washington metro is not working because the computers have gone into a cyclical update? In Moscow, the subway is running as before, and in general, there are no difficulties in the transport sector of Russia ...

Microsoft's regional director in Australia, Troy Hunt, stated on his page on the social network X that the global technology failure that occurred would be the largest in history. A few years more, this would have been the history of Russia. But our country - sometimes of its own free will, and sometimes under pressure from former "partners" - turned onto a different road. And safely bypassed the place where a computer catastrophe awaited the Western computer world.

Now we need to carefully study its lessons and make sure that nothing similar happens to our domestic IT infrastructure. And be prepared for the fact that the West will definitely find a reason to blame the elusive "Kremlin hackers" in the near future. By a strange coincidence, it was the culprit of the current failure, the company CrowdStrike, that in 2016, at the instigation of the US Democratic Party, conducted a high-profile investigation, as a result of which it accused Russian intelligence services of interfering in the American elections...

https://ria.ru/20240719/it-sboy-1960753408.html

How Russia Saved Itself from a Global Digital Disruption, by Evgeniy Pozdnyakov for VZGLYAD. 07.19.2024.

Global Windows Outage Proves Russia's Course on Digital Sovereignty Is Correct.

In the West, many banks, airports, and even hospitals suddenly stopped working. The reason was a global failure of the Windows operating system caused by an incorrect update of the cybersecurity service provider CrowdStrike. At the same time, technical problems had virtually no effect on Russia. How did our country manage to avoid the mass appearance of the "blue screen of death"?

Windows has been hit by a global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. The Verge reports that the changes caused affected PCs and servers to shut down and reboot en masse, causing thousands of users to see the blue screen of death.

A solution to the problem was quickly found, but it did not have much impact on the situation. To restore the computers' functionality, it was necessary to switch the devices to safe mode and manually remove certain software components, writes RBC . For corporations with a fleet of tens of thousands of machines, this became a challenge.

The Guardian called the current disruption "the biggest in history." Technical problems have had a negative impact on airlines around the world. Ryanair, for example, advised passengers to arrive at the departure lounge three hours before their flight. American carriers also encountered problems, and Berlin Airport completely ceased operations.

The outage also affected the financial sector. JP Morgan employees reported problems logging into their systems, and the London Stock Exchange reported problems with its own news service. A number of Western banks also warned their customers about possible difficulties with processing card payments.

At the same time, global problems did not affect Russia. The reason for this is the almost complete absence of the CrowdStrike utility in the country. According to Anton Gorelkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, the Russian Federation was saved by the strategy of import substitution and technological sovereignty. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel .

The situation was also ridiculed by Florian Philippot, leader of the French Patriots party. He said that international sanctions had helped Russia to protect itself from the harmful effects of the global Microsoft failure. “Those who consider themselves strong are the most vulnerable,” he stressed, adding that what happened only showed the general weakness of the West.

"Crowdstrike Falcon is software designed to protect large companies' data from cyberattacks. It is used by many companies whose activities involve processing personal data of citizens in large quantities. However, the scale of the application cannot guarantee its uninterrupted operation," said German Klimenko, an expert in the development of the IT industry.

"Most likely, the company released a patch that contained a critical error that the developers missed during the testing stage. The problem is that users are used to trusting information giants, which is why many have the auto-update mode set by default," he notes.

"Accordingly, most computers began to download the necessary changes without asking permission from clients, which led to such a large-scale failure. Similar situations sometimes happen in various companies. Everyone understands this practice, but no one probably expected the global nature of the problem," the source emphasizes. According to his assessment, what happened practically did not affect Russia.

“Our country has benefited from large-scale Western sanctions that limit local users’ access to American and European software.

This launched two important processes: increasing the pace of digital sovereignty of the Russian Federation and the transition to utilities of friendly states," the expert explains. "What happened once again indicates that our own software is the main guarantee of successful digital security," Klimenko believes.

The failure also showed how dangerous it is to depend on American IT products, agreed Alexander Malkevich, First Deputy Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Information Society and Mass Media. According to him, digital sovereignty allows Russia to create its own IT products aimed at solving increasingly narrow tasks.

"Russia is currently engaged in building up its digital sovereignty. We have managed to replace a significant portion of information products with national analogues and will continue to build on our successes. It is clear that no one is immune from digital failures, but relying on your own products is more reliable," he emphasized.

Meanwhile, political scientist Gleb Kuznetsov in his Telegram channel draws attention to the political dimension of the situation with the company responsible for the technical problems, CrowdStrike. “Its founder, Dmitry Alperovich, is not only our former compatriot, but also a person with very specific views and career trajectory,” he notes.

"The main public enemy of China and Russia in American high-tech. The initiator and driver of all the main processes against the "influence of China and Russia" in cyberspace. From the "investigation of Russia's interference in the US elections" to the anti-Chinese operations "Aurora" and "Night Dragon". He sat on all public and government commissions, starting with Obama," the expert recalls.

"His biography claims that it was he who discovered and named Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, the "Russian hacker groups" celebrated in the media. And he calls him "Putin's worst nightmare," and the company that has become famous today "our special forces in the fight against Putin and Xi."

Before him, no “Russian hackers,” or Chinese ones, existed in the public space.

He later made a career out of working for the intelligence services, such as the FBI and NSA, before deciding to become a geopolitical expert and "Russia expert." He wrote the book "World on the Edge: How the US Can Defeat China," which suggested focusing on AI, protecting Taiwan and other allies like Ukraine, so the West should just "push."

"Today we see in the example of his office how all this "stronger" looks in practice. And his "ecosystem" is a brilliant example of what the transformation of political, media and power influence into money, technology and back looks like. And that "high technology" is not so much lines of code as "selling solutions in regulation". And the code for capitalizing these solutions and AI, even if crooked, will be written," Kuznetsov concluded.

https://vz.ru/world/2024/7/19/1278297.html

This is about the supposed Russian answer/ counterpart to NATzO propaganda outfit Wikipedia, so I will be posting it on this thread

So, Russia launched the Encyclopedia Runiversalis as an alternative to Wikipedia which we all know is notorious for peddling NATzO propaganda.

When I visited the webpage for Runiversalis:

https://runiversalis.ru/

I noticed that items on the main page are dated 2023, we are now halfway through 2024, and the page is still stuck in 2023, so apparently the staff or people who are supposed to keep the webpage updated are leaving the webpage to rot with no updates at all.

Meanwhile, I was able to find another link in Cyrillic alphabet, which I suppose is the URL to the real Runiversalis webpage? Its weird because when I try to copy the URL, its showing up as completely different when I paste it

This is the REAL URL to the webpage:



This is what happens when i try to copy the webpage URL and paste it elsewhere:

https://xn--h1ajim.xn--p1ai/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0


I don't know if this is a security feature of the webpage or if this is a DELIBERATE Attempt by NATzO Agents and 5th column traitors to sabotage Runiversalis

Also, there is no option for other languages in the 2nd Runiversalis webpage, and its been up for at least 2 years now

If Russia is serious about countering NATzO propaganda on the internet, Russia needs to triple its efforts in the digital sphere and make REAL alternatives to NATzO propaganda outlets like Youtube, X, Facebook, Wikipedia, and all other tools used by the West to Brainwash people.

Russia needs to investigate if people assigned to maintain and grow Russian alternatives to NATzO propaganda media are doing their job and are not secretly sabotaging these projects on behalf of NATzO