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Details have been disclosed of two criminal cases against Russian students accused of copyright infringement in the IT sphere. A student from a Yekaterinburg university received a one-year suspended sentence, and two students in the Sakhalin region are accused of counterfeit software sales.
20-year old Ivan Pidjakov, student of the Ural State Mountain University is convicted […]

Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fibre optic cable. The cable, which is expected to be in place by the end of this year, avoids the area south of Taiwan in which many cables suffered damage after a powerful earthquake last year.
The Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System will, as its […]

OAO Gazprom plans to complete the acquisition of shares in Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Sakhalin-2 oil and gas venture next month, giving the Russian company control over the country’s first liquefied natural gas project.
“We’re targeting the end of March,” Igor Bakhtin, deputy head of OAO Gazprom’s eastern projects department, said in an interview in Tokyo […]

Yesterday was the first day of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov’s official visit to Tokyo. Although the prime minister, in his own words, “was not trying to surprise the Japanese,” the sheer volume of offers soliciting participation in Russian investment projects brought the table by Mr. Fradkov and his entourage of government officials left the […]

Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov believes Russia’s oil companies Surgutneftegaz, Lukoil and others should take part in exploration and development of offshore fields in the Far East.
He pointed out that mostly foreign oil companies operate in the Sakhalin Island.
“We would be glad if our Russian partners join us,” he said.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has expressed satisfaction with the way his official visit to Japan is underway. Fradkov noted on the results of his talks with former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiro Mori and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the country’s parliament Yohei Kono that Russia and Japan are engaged “in a […]