New Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia #2

https://rosatomnewsletter.com/2023/07/31/fast-sodium-and-upgraded/

The safety of the reactor is also enhanced by placing the systems and equipment containing radioactive sodium inside the reactor tank. The autonomous heat exchangers of the emergency heat removal system, which are also installed inside the tank, along with the natural coolant circulation through the circuits, contribute to reducing the likelihood of severe damage to the core. The capacity of the BN‑1200 in-vessel storage has been increased in order to unload fuel assemblies from the reactor directly into the spent fuel pool, eliminating the need for a sodium drum.

Compared to the BN‑600 and BN‑800, the power density of the BN‑1200 core is almost twice as low, which significantly extends the refueling interval. The use of larger fuel rods and fuel assemblies, mixed uranium-plutonium fuel, and new structural steels with increased radiation resistance ensures deeper burnup and reduced consumption of fuel assemblies. The use of expansion bellows to compensate for thermal expansion of the pipes has led to a reduction in their length. With the implementation of these new technical solutions, the length of sodium systems has been reduced considerably; radioactive sodium leaks and contact with air have been eliminated.

Due to its physical properties, the fast neutron reactor can be operated on different plutonium isotopes extracted from the spent fuel of both fast and thermal neutron reactors. It can also ‘burn’ minor actinides to produce fresh plutonium for fuel and fabricate desirable isotopes.

The service life of the BN‑1200M reactor unit is at least 60 years. As Sergey Shepelev notes, there is potential to extend its lifespan to 80 years, increase the utilization factor from 0.9 to 0.91, extend the service life of steam generators from 30 to 60 years, and lengthen the refueling interval.

The BN-1200M is not just an upscaled BN-800.

there is potential to extend its lifespan to 80 years

The wet dream of every western energy company.

Russia imported paper from the west... even when they exported pulp and wood used to make that paper to the west too.

Seems they are using new technology to make their own paper, and make it better quality and cheaper and more efficiently.

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.

Yandex Translate from Spanish

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.

Of course the future of the gas industry also includes inert gases like Helium...



I have moved this to here because helium is widely used as an inert gas for making lots of high tech things and fits here better than on a fossil fuel thread as obviously it is neither fossil nor fuel.

Once the first major hurdle is done, then it becomes "easier" to start advancing said tech to make it more modern lithography.

That said, I wonder if this was the joint venture between Belarus and Russia or if this was the private initiative I mentioned earlier.

They made it a lot faster than I figured.

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  

PhSt wrote: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  

Russia has a colossal number of West-worshipping bootlickers amongst its intellectual elite that would sell the country out today if it got them a nice retirement package and 2nd citizenship like that clown Gorbachev. The only real difference between Russia and the US/EU/UK when it comes to 5th columnist traitors and 6th columnist crybabies is that they're in control of the latter.

Russia has created an analogue of aGPS for GLONASS, 08.15.2024.

Russia has developed A-GLONASS (A-GNSS) technology that accelerates location determination for mobile devices. This was reported to RG by JSC GLONASS.

The technology is an alternative to aGPS, created for the American GPS navigation system. It allows to reduce the time of determining the location of the device during a "cold" start, which is especially important in urban areas, where dense buildings prevent the reception of a satellite signal, and where it may take up to 2-3 minutes to find a signal from satellites. A-GLONASS allows to make the wait necessary to determine the exact location when opening applications, electronic maps and navigators unnoticeable due to the transmission of auxiliary data via the Internet, mobile networks and Wi-Fi.

At the same time, as explained by the developer company, unlike foreign analogues, the Russian technology does not transmit data about the location of the mobile device to the servers of foreign companies and increases the information security of users.

"A-GLONASS, from the point of view of land navigation, eliminates Russia's dependence on foreign technologies and equipment, on the shutdown or artificial limitation of the operation of such solutions. The development of JSC GLONASS will give impetus to the production of domestic navigation equipment, which will provide users throughout the country with advanced software in the areas of determining location and protection against signal substitution."

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/161795/

A few years ago, when it became apparent that NATO was using its social media outfits (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Wiki, etc.) to influence and brainwash the local population in Russia to turn them against the government, Russia has initiated a program to create its own alternatives to NATO social media (VK, RuTube, Rossgram, Runiversalis,) but its been a good couple of years now, and although Russian social media alternatives have been created, its userbase and outreach to users abroad doesn't seem to be that good.

This needs to be emphasized, that Whoever is in charge of promoting Russian social media both inside and outside of Russia is probably Compromised or is a NATO Asset, Russia needs to triple its efforts to promote its social media (and thus its Information/ narrative outreach) to people across the world, to people who have become aware of NATO double standards and have had enough of NATO Propaganda. Russia needs to do this NOW.

With NATO's arrest of Durov, there is a big risk that Telegram will become compromised and most Pro Russian channels there will most likely be shut down and its moderators tracked and even get arrested for trumped up charges just like what NATO did to Assange and now Durov. If the managers of Telegram are smart, just sell the company Right away to Gazprom Media, and let Russia manage the entire social media inside Russian territory. NATO may start banning the app, but this will only expose NATO hypocrisy when it comes to the so called Freedom of speech in their countries.

But yes, Russia needs to intensify its efforts in the information sphere and get rid of anyone in its ranks who is actively sabotaging this project from within.

This is the REAL URL to the webpage:

New Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia #2 - Page 5 12154511

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

It is good to be paranoid, but in this case it is about the character set.

URLs are generally in a boring anglosaxon type set that does not include special characters like Cyrillic or Mandarin, and it also does not tolerate some characters being in a web address. One of the most common objectionable characters is the space... an empty space, which it fills with code characters using a % and normally a number.

I seem to remember the code for an empty space was %20, so if you see a web address with something like www.russiadefence.net/General%20discussion/... etc etc it is because he person who created that forum had empty spaces in the folders and sections so the web address had to have special characters to fill the gaps.

There will also be special characters for other characters and in the example above the different letter and number combinations between the % are the codes for the different cyrillic characters... it is a failing of the character set used for URL addresses... not being international.

The core problem with Russia creating a social app is that if they don't make it foreign language friendly then it wont appeal to foreign users.

Yes, I realise that is western centric of me to say, but I don't mean it that way.

I don't think I would be on the internet quite so often if it was only New Zealand stuff, I am interested in Russian stuff, and I think many Russians who use social media want to communicate with people in the west rather than their fellow citizens.

I could be wrong of course and hopefully the conflict in Syria and the conflict in the Ukraine will have tempered their idealised view of the west to the point where information about other countries around the world become rather more appealing to them... a bit like finding out your favourite neighbour is a convicted pedophile (and that is why he kept giving you lollies and alcohol when you asked for it).

Of course the entire west has been misinformed... ironically they know it, but it is still easier to accept what they are being told rather than find out stuff for themselves. At some stage the US is going to realise truth and justice were the American way... even when it didn't benefit them in any way.

They call themselves the worlds police but they don't act like one.

When you only investigate crimes that effect you and only arrest people who commit crimes against you then you are not a police force, you are a lynch mob.

Lynch mobs sometimes do good things, and other times are led astray and do very bad things... usually no one in the lynch mob cares... they just get to hang someone or beat them to death.

It was a lynch mob in Odessa that burned fellow Ukrainians to death for the crime of wanting to speak Russian and keeping good ties with Russia.

US politics have not quite gotten to that point yet, but plenty of democrats have said the assassination of Trump would be a good thing... that is where the west has degenerated to and why Kiev is following their lead.

Russia has a different path now and needs to blaze its own trail... but it needs to stop trying to listen to the west, that siren call will lead to them ending up on the rocks being devoured by monsters.

The military needed a universal messenger, by Alena Zadorozhnaya for VZGLYAD. 08.29.2024.

There was a request for an alternative to Telegram to solve combat tasks.

The Telegram messenger has proven itself to be an assistant to the military in the SVO zone. However, the detention of Pavel Durov in France raises questions about the trust in the application and the creation of an alternative version of the program in the interests of the Russian Armed Forces. What should a military messenger for a 21st century soldier be like?

After Pavel Durov was detained in France, Russia began to think about creating alternatives to the Telegram messenger. Observers believe that Durov is being pressured to obtain encryption keys, which would call into question the trust and security of the application, since the messenger is also used by the Russian military.

The messenger is often used as an addition to existing military communication systems. The experience of the SVO has shown that with the help of smartphones and messengers, the military exchanges information, ensures the delivery of strikes and even evacuates wounded soldiers.

Programmes on mobile devices with an intuitive interface fit into the concept of a modern multi-domain war, which is accompanied by the steady digitalization of the theater of military operations. At the same time, Russia does not have a special military messenger based on the Android and iOS operating systems. But there are a number of alternatives. These are the Strelets-M intelligence, control and communication complex (KRUS), the Operator geoinformation system, the Sozvezdie-M2 unified tactical control system, and the Andromeda automated troop control system.

"They have different functionality, the most advanced is considered to be the messenger KRUS "Strelets-M". However, for their operation, hardware with a secure environment based on the Linux OS (Astra Linux and similar) is required," noted the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Viktor Murakhovsky.

At the same time, the CEO of the ANO "NPC "Ushkuynik" Alexey Chadayev believes that from a military-technical point of view, the messenger today is the main means of combat management at the tactical level. And the problem, according to him, is "not in the messenger itself, but in the communication transport." "Telegram has become the main means de facto because as a communication transport it only needs access to the Internet. In this sense, the issue is not in the messenger, but in the way to send digital data between terminals in frontline conditions with fierce EW (Electronic Warfare Systems). And what kind of messenger specifically is the fifth question," Chadayev writes.

Experts interviewed by Vzglyad newspaper agree that the military needs an alternative to Telegram.

The new messenger must have an accessible interface, a distributed network of data centers throughout the country, and the ability to transmit messages and other information in encrypted form.

"There are several approaches to solving the problem. The first approach : we take a simple phone, write an application for it, install it and give it for use. In this case, the project has some servers and some application store from which it can be downloaded. And then everything essentially works like in Telegram," says Oleg Makarov, co-founder of the Vatfor project.

"And in this direction, no one has succeeded so far. Firstly, because the military will have to be forced to install a new application. In addition, it will take some time for people to get used to the application and learn how to use it. And there are no guarantees that it will work on any device. There are no such problems with Telegram," the speaker points out.

" The second approach is to give the military some specialized device. In other words, a device that functions as a messenger. Most often, they are made from the same phones or tablets, but equipped with the ability to access closed means of communication, for example, with the transmission of information over radio stations and protocols that are usually used for control by radio, and not via the Internet," the analyst explains.

"There is a third approach . Creating a device with data transmission via the Network, which is also called IP networks. But this is even more complicated. Although we have cases when something similar is being developed at the brigade level with smart brigade commanders. One way or another, any of the methods requires serious efforts from the Ministry of Defense," the expert believes.

As for the programmes listed by Murakhovsky, they are more related to "decision support systems, not messengers," the source said. "They contain geographic maps and the ability to set points. But here we will have to either choose one system or teach them to work together and deploy them everywhere on the front, equipping all the military," Makarov reasons.

According to him, the talk about these systems appearing en masse in the troops has been going on for a long time. "For example, there is the ESU TZ system, which includes cartography, the ability to transmit coordinates and text messages, but it has also been in development for more than ten years," the speaker continues.

Speaking about a potential military messenger, Makarov points out that “it should transmit not only and not so much text messages, but various coordinates: points, marks and directions.” “It should also have a more or less open protocol so that any manufacturer of a combat system could connect to it,” the specialist believes.

According to Makarov, the systems listed by Murakhovsky have one big problem – a closed protocol.

"And the military always advocates for the protocol to be closed. But, in my opinion, this is not the best practice,

because not everyone who is currently doing something useful for the front has access to this level of secrecy,” the expert explains.

Makarov cited a group of software developers as an example. "They came up with software that is installed on the drone's control panel and helps the artillery work. The idea is simple: the drone records the target, transmits the coordinates to the battery, a salvo is fired, and then, again via the copter, an adjustment is made and a second strike is carried out," the source described.

But since the system must be closed, connecting to it is “difficult, but necessary.” “Automatic transmission of data to the artillery calculation will significantly improve the quality and efficiency of its work. But for now we are running into the need for “secret”,” Makarov believes.

At the same time, the analyst doubts the advisability of building a centralized system for messengers. “The whole system should work like email – you just need the ability to send data between different servers,” he says. This will prevent overloading of data centers, which is also important in combat situations.

“In my opinion, the scheme looks like this: we take the software, transfer it to the front, conditionally deploy a server in each battalion, and it begins to “communicate” with other servers of adjacent battalions to adjust general actions on the front line,”
describes the speaker. - "We will also need to create "joints" between them. And this is the only issue that should be centralized, since the "joints" coordinate the distribution of encryption keys. If we are talking about the type of encryption, then, as practice shows, all the most stable types are open. Only the key should be closed... Due to the specifics of encryption, all external influence on the code is visible to the owners of the code. This process highlights the weak points of development well and allows them to be quickly eliminated, thus creating a truly well-protected algorithm."

"When it comes to a closed protocol, there is a high risk that the enemy will steal it sooner or later. And he will have the opportunity to calmly and without haste "pick apart" it. The hacking process itself may not even be noticed. In addition, due to the lack of external influence, you may not even know about some vulnerabilities and "teething problems," Makarov emphasized.

In turn, Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Center for Military and Political Journalism, believes that finding a replacement for Telegram will not be difficult. He agrees that the existing versions of the military messenger in Russia are tailored to specific tasks and, in comparison with Telegram, do not meet the requirement for universality. Moreover, the messenger should be intuitive.

The expert believes that the main thing in creating a messenger will be the presence of encryption and the ability to delete sent messages, as well as a network of data centers distributed across the country. It will ensure the smooth operation of the messenger, taking into account millions of connections. At the same time, it is preferable that the messenger be implemented as a mobile application that can be installed on a regular smartphone, because the release of specialized devices will become a "serious burden on the domestic industry."

According to him, many combat tasks (from transmitting data on targets to searching for the wounded) can be solved via a regular chat. The only question is the security of the communication channel. "Such correspondence can now be conducted via WhatsApp* or Facebook Messenger*, but all the information there is sifted and is guaranteed to be transmitted to the enemy," the source explained.

"Various developments are currently underway. Among them is the "Complex for Improving Awareness" (KPO-A) application for smartphones and tablets. It provides for encrypted military chats. All of this will begin to be implemented next year. The situation with Telegram once again demonstrates the need for the army to have specialized messengers developed by order of the Ministry of Defense," Rozhin believes.

* Belongs to the Meta* company, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation

* The organization (organizations) have been liquidated or their activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation.

https://vz.ru/society/2024/8/28/1284164.html

If true these people are retarded. They could have been using the Session open source decentralized encrypted messenger instead of Telegram.

Because it does not rely on a centralized server they cannot easily apply man in the middle attacks to it.

I have also heard of them using Discord, of all things, to share information. When open source applications and servers like Zulip are available. Discord is centralized and all the communications can be read by Western governments. These people are just totally dumb.

Russian GPS Alternative GLONASS Touts Drone Monitoring Tool's Export Potential to BRICS Countries, by Ilya Tsukanov for Sputnikglobe.com. 08.29.2024.

Developed in the 1980s and declared an operational alternative to the US Global Positioning System (GPS) in 1993, GLONASS (Russian acronym for ‘Global Navigation Satellite System’) became freely available for civilian users in 2007.

Russia sees strong export potential for its satellite-based tool for the monitoring of drone flights among friendly countries, including among the BRICS bloc, JSC GLONASS general director Alexei Raikevich has announced.

“Russian communication and navigation technologies for civilian unmanned aircraft provide technological sovereignty and have high export potential to BRICS member countries,” Raikevich told Sputnik.

The company has tested components of a system designed to monitor beyond line of sight drone flights using its ERA-GLONASS satellite constellation, with tests carried out earlier this summer on Russia’s Sakhalin Island, and over Elbrus Mountain, Raikevich said.

The project, developed through the Russian National Technological Initiative and its ‘Digital Sky of Russia’ component, provides a unique hybrid communication system based on GLONASS’s technologies, and has “great potential” for use by friendly countries, with the mass use of civilian drones requiring transparency and an ability to access information in real-time, according to the company official.

“We are actively testing this hybrid communication network in the regions and in the interests of commercial companies for a variety of purposes, from cargo logistics and the monitoring of infrastructure facilities to the cultivation of agricultural lands,” Raikevich said.

The service could prove highly useful in Russia itself. While the country’s military drones have garnered significant attention over the two years amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the Russian government also has high hopes for the civilian drone market in light of Russia’s vast geography, which increases the need for unmanned systems capable of traversing vast spaces, engaging in environmental monitoring, providing disaster response and relief, and updating geospatial databases.

In 2023, the government approved a new civilian drone strategy up to the year 2030, citing the technology’s enormous potential. The strategy provides for measures to stimulate demand for Russian UAV technology, development and mass production, as well as infrastructure for servicing drones, from airports to specialized drone ports, assuring training for their use, etc.

During a visit to Russia’s Rudnevo industrial park outside Moscow last spring, President Putin said he expects about 1 trillion rubles (about $10 billion US) to be invested into drone technologies in the near future. Putin called on Russia to “digitize” the organization of air traffic to enable the safe and widespread use of unmanned aviation, and to work out preferential purchase and leasing mechanisms to expand demand for domestically-made drone tech.

Aeroscript Scientific Research Center deputy director Andrei Yablokov says Russia has made significant progress in drone development, and that the country has created good potential for exports.

Russia also has decades of experience as a global leader in satellite-based navigation systems, with the USSR developing the Tsikada series of low earth orbit navigation satellites in the 1970s, and beginning the launch of the GLONASS network in 1982. GLONASS was declared operational in 1993, and assembled into a full, 24 first-gen constellational in 1995, but was initially restricted for use by the military. The network degraded through the 1990s and early 2000s due to lack of funding, reaching just seven operational satellites by 2002.

A federal funding programme promoted by the president sought to save, upgrade and modernize the network, with goals including improving GLONASS’s accuracy characteristics, improve its satellites’ lifespan (from three years in the original GLONASS satellites to seven in GLONASS-M and then ten with the GLONASS-K series) and allow for civilian use.

The network became available for civilian use in 2007, quickly resulting in the creation of GLONASS-based navigation equipment for vehicles, and prompting major global cellphone makers to start making their products compatible with GLONASS, which enjoys superior accuracy characteristics at northern latitudes.

GLONASS’s satellites are launched into orbit aboard Soyuz-2.1b and Proton-M carrier rockets.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240829/russian-gps-alternative-glonass-touts-drone-monitoring-tools-export-potential-to-brics-countries-1119950181.html

Looks like after some long procrastination the management of RuTube is starting to make some progress to make the platform somewhat comparable to NATO's Youtube. Hopefully the next step would be to expand RuTube to international users and add foreign languages and start building up its audience base.

The government has decided on the future of the Great Russian Encyclopedia(BRE), by Polina Khimshiashvili, Pëtr Kanaev for RBC. 10.04.2024.

The employees of the portal "The Great Russian Encyclopedia" will be paid their wage arrears, the project will be liquidated, and the materials will be transferred to the encyclopedia "Ruviki", sources told RBC. The employees have been reporting debts since the beginning of the year.

The government has decided to begin liquidating the ANO "Great Russian Encyclopedia" with the transfer of the collected materials to the team of the Internet encyclopedia "Ruviki", which "will strengthen its competitive advantages", a source close to one of the relevant departments told RBK, and a source close to the government confirmed.

The website of the Russian Internet encyclopedia "Ruviki" was launched in June 2023; as of October 2024, it contains more than 2 million articles in Russian.

According to one of RBC's sources, during its operation, ANO "BRE" has prepared 98 thousand articles, but only half of them were published on the portal of the Great Russian Encyclopedia. "Unlike other resources, the encyclopedia articles have been verified by the scientific community," he noted, reporting that other Russian companies are also showing interest in the materials developed by the Great Russian Encyclopedia.

The government will also soon allocate the necessary funding to ANO from the Reserve Fund, which will be used to pay off the debt to employees, “which arose in 2024 due to the untimely actions of ANO management to bring expenses into line with the allocated funding,” RBC sources said.

The Great Russian Encyclopedia is the successor to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. In 2019, by order of the government, a nationwide interactive scientific and educational portal, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, was created on its basis. The encyclopedia portal was created with the financial support of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. Encyclopedia articles can be referenced in scientific and student academic papers; they are indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

The encyclopedia's employees have been reporting problems with funding since the spring. According to them, salaries have not been paid since December of last year.

The portal's editor-in-chief, Sergei Kravets, confirmed to RBC that employees were not receiving payments. At the time, he said that there were no salaries, no royalties for authors, no housing and utilities payments, no tax deductions. The total budget of the BRE for this year was planned at about 1 billion rubles, almost two-thirds of which is salary, he said. According to him, out of 417 employees, almost 350 are editorial staff (editors, verification service, cartographers, and others). In mid-June, the encyclopedia's website stopped updating.

The portal's council includes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov. The presidium of the scientific editorial board includes Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, Director of INION RAS Alexey Kuznetsov, Director of the Berg Institute of Cybernetics Alexey Semenov and Editor-in-Chief Sergey Kravets.

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/04/10/2024/6620c8f79a7947fd050a0da0

This is what happens when Russia shows a goodwill gesture to its former subject by gifting it sovereignty. Now the Finns are like Rabid DOGS frothing at the mouth hating Russia.  

Linux creator approves de-listing of several kernel maintainers associated with Russia


Linux creator Linus Torvalds issued a statement this week expressing support for the removal of around a dozen Russians from the list of Linux kernel maintainers.

The comments came after the news broke last week, causing debate and confusion within the coding community. It’s unclear who made the decision to remove 11 Russians, but it was announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a major Linux kernel developer.

“It’s entirely clear why the change was made; it’s not getting reverted,” Torvalds said. “If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try reading the news sometime.”

The kernel is the core of a computer operating system. The Linux kernel is an open-source project consisting of millions of lines of code, and it is organized publicly into subsystems overseen by maintainers. Changes to the kernel are reviewed by other developers before being distributed to Linux users.

Developers linked to Russia were removed from their positions due to “various compliance requirements,” said Kroah-Hartman in a file containing a series of changes and updates to the kernel.

“They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided,” Kroah-Hartman added, without specifying what this entails.

Russian media reported that the latest move mostly affected developers with email addresses indicating their place of work in Russia. Most of them, according to reports, are associated with sanctioned companies or organizations that are controlled or backed by the Russian government.

It is likely that there are more Russian coders maintaining the Linux kernel, but it is not yet clear if they would be affected by the changes.

Some of the Linux kernel maintainers and the coding community were surprised by the decision and called for a reversion or more clarification. They also said that the exclusion of certain people goes against Linux's main principles, which is to have source code freely available for anyone to view, modify and distribute.

“Among all the possibilities you had, you chose the most disgusting and shady way of doing this,” one of the coders wrote in replies on the kernel mailing list. “I deeply disrespect the removal and the way it was done.”

Another developer wrote: “An absolutely no-one-ever-reviewed patch, not even by the maintainers who got removed themselves. What about the next time? Who next would be removed?”

https://x.com/endermanch/status/1849205741351031064

Torvalds said that this criticism was the work of Russian “troll factories,” adding that he’s not going to change anything.

“As to sending me a revert patch — please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be ‘supporting’ Russian aggression?” he added.

Torvalds didn’t provide further clarification, but it is likely that the decision and its timing are linked to new U.S. sanctions against Russia’s tech sector, which came into effect in September of this year.

One of the Linux maintainers, James Bottomley, confirmed on Thursday that the restrictions would apply to developers whose companies are owned or controlled by entities on the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control list of people designated as being involved in various activities that “threaten the national security, foreign policy, or economy” of the country.

The documentation Linux is looking for is to prove that someone on the removed list doesn't actually work for a sanctioned entity, Bottomley added.

This is not the first time Linux kernel development has been impacted since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago. Last year, Linux refused to accept patches from a Russian maintainer who was an employee of the sanctioned company Baikal Electronics.

“We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization. Please withhold networking contributions until further notice,” Linux said at that time.

Similar incidents have happened to other open-source developers associated with Russia. U.S. tech outlet The Register reported last year that it observed a Russian coder's account being blocked on GitHub and his repositories marked as "archived." The affected developer reportedly worked for a Russian tech equipment manufacturer sanctioned by Canada and the U.S.

The U.S. service Docker Hub, widely used for software development, suspended its operations in Russia earlier this year without prior notice to local users. Other tech companies, including giants like Microsoft and Apple, also exited the Russian market due to the war in Ukraine and sanctions.


https://therecord.media/linus-torvalds-russian-linux-kernel-maintainers-removed

I'm no computer expert but how much of a task is it to develop an operating system from scratch? Obviously, Russia cannot rely on both Microsoft and Linux as these two are NATzO entities. Russia needs to PUNISH the Finnish DOGS for this insolent behavior and TAKE BACK Russian lands that the Finns are currently occupying.

Well, in this case since Linux is mostly just open source, Russia can just develop its own which it already has:
- Alt Linux
- Elbrus OS
- Astra Linux - this is the standard, most used Linux Distro by the government, military and various organizations.  They are now planning to be listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
- M OS - I cannot find too much info on this but its a new OS as well.

Essentially, it isn't really that hard.  They can easily port over a lot of the source code from other linux distros and its pretty much impossible for them to be blocked entirely from the repositories.  Rather very easy to bypass.  With that said, they should just move forward with their own BSD based OS that is efficient for the hardware locally produced.

I pointed out what you did in the semiconductor thread. Yes, Linus says " as a Finn I cannot support Russia". OK, so he cannot support Russia so he must have been OK with subjugation under Sweden or maybe he was a supporter of Nazi's simply for the fact that his country of Finland allied with them in WW2.

That I agree with you, Russia time and time again gets treated like shit by nations that it has helped obtain sovereignty. Goes to show that good will rewards you with a spit in the face.

Russia needs to PUNISH the Finnish DOGS for this insolent behavior and TAKE BACK Russian lands that the Finns are currently occupying.

Never interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake... this guy has declared himself an enemy to an entire country... which is always a stupid thing to do... but now he is firing all the Russians working for him... those Russians weren't working for him for charity... they would need to be good at their jobs to get the jobs they had so now they are free to work elsewhere... hopefully they will consider working in Russia on the new Russian projects that are getting under way all the time.

Ultimately this is going to hurt his product and his country more than it will hurt Russia or Russians.

Russia has enough to do already without having to start from scratch on OS... it s all open source so they can pick and choose what they want and build a system that works better on the hardware they are creating.

The guy created linux by modifying unix really... his main contribution AFAIK was to make it open source. He didn't cure cancer or invent the wheel.

Torvalds does not own Linux. But he influences the clowns that do distributions and associated open source code development. Russia does not need to
participate in any western clubs. This includes open source and academia. But Russia is still afflicted with the adoration for the west disease. So
it seen as prestigious to be published in some western academic journal, etc.

Western academia, open source development, etc., have been politicized and are rotting. There is nothing of value from swimming in this cesspool.