Author: Irini Petrou

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that bans government officials from using foreign words in official documents and correspondence as well as while carrying out their duties. “When using Russian as the state language of the Russian Federation, it is not allowed to use words and expressions that do not correspond to the norms of modern literary Russian language,” the law published Tuesday said. The exception, according to the law, is the use of “foreign words which do not have widely used corresponding equivalents in Russian.” A list of foreign words that can be used will be compiled by a government commission…

Tuesday to build a subsea telecom cable in the Mediterranean connecting the two countries, Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said in a statement. The cooperation deal was signed between Egypt’s telecom service and subsea cable operator Telecom Egypt and Greece’s network builder Grid Telecom, the ministry said, adding the move came in line with the Egyptian carrier’s strategy to increase its entry points to Europe by providing an eastern gateway via Greece. The new subsea system would connect Port Said in Egypt and Greece’s Crete Island, “making it the shortest Mediterranean (telecom) path between Egypt and Europe, with…