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...“Our digital infrastructure was grinding to a halt,” said Oliver Chandler, head of IT technical services at Milton Keynes University Hospital....
...Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to the IAEA and other Vienna-based international bodies, hailed Sunday’s agreement as “technical but very important.”...
...Prohibiting the export of high-end and critical technical equipment and components in sectors including electronics, telecommunications and aerospace....
...Thatcher was prompted to tone down her Iron Lady rhetoric and build a relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev....
...The shutdown meant digital banking, taxi services, maps, online shopping, and other services ground to a halt, costing the country more than $56m in lost economic activity per day, according to Netblocks...
...Russia’s parliament voted to confirm Mikhail Mishustin as prime minister on Thursday as part of a move that could help President Vladimir Putin extend his 20-year rule indefinitely....
...Alex Azar, US secretary of health and human Services, also challenged the Russian announcement....
...Few think Mikhail Mishustin, the former head of Russia’s tax agency who did not have an English-language Wikipedia page before being plucked from obscurity to be premier, is a potential long-term successor...
...Might The Economist discover a country that does not need urgent, unspecified reform of its public services?...
...In August, the Indian government asked telecoms and internet service providers to explore ways of blocking Facebook, WhatsApp, and other apps during emergencies....
...Breathless early comparisons of Mr Mnangagwa with authoritarian reformers, a Zimbabwean Deng Xiaoping or Mikhail Gorbachev, have fallen silent....
...“We plan to service all our obligations on time and in full, but the current situation is a direct result of the actions of the plaintiffs,” said chief executive Mikhail Shamolin....
...One version also included technical changes that would have created retrospective tax charges for companies that invested in wind and solar projects. And finally, T....
...Grab is a rapidly growing taxi-hailing service that has operations in six Southeast Asian countries....
...In a move reminiscent of Putin’s second term (2004-2008), the ‘political’ prime minister Medvedev may be replaced by a ‘technical’ prime minister (the role played in 2004-2007 by Mikhail Fradkov, the current...
...In a recent series of work, he shows walls of buildings in the centre of Lagos that have been filled with scrawled slogans advertising various services....
...Greater competition has transformed, for example, communications services around the world....
...Times were so uncertain the management worried the whole contract might come to a swift end in 1991, when communist die-hards in the Soviet Union staged their failed coup against the head of state, Mikhail...
...This oil major once belonged to jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, after it was broken up over back taxes, a process that Mr Sechin also oversaw....
...Unlike jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, however, they have never challenged Mr Putin’s rule....
...At first, it appeared that Mikhail Kalashnikov would never become a hero of the Soviet Union....
...A third defendant, Juan Lazaro, previously confessed he was using a false name and was loyal to the “Service” – the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency....
...Mikhail Khodorkovsky is in prison and Boris Berezovsky is in exile in London, but Deripaska is still in business. The financial crisis of 2008 posed another mortal threat....
...Mikhail Voitenko, an editor who was the first to publish information on the ship’s disappearance and then felt obliged to flee Russia, also says there was no such alarm....
...The business must reduce its dangerous overreliance on BP secondees and recruit more technical experts from other international oil companies....
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