russian telecom stormtroopers who have those diamond logos in the background and other internet companies you can see kind of caught up there in the crossfire pretty good one there and another here implying that russia is essentially heading backwards in terms of technology you see the head of russia's telecommunications watchdog and the tweet says we have the most modern means of communication have access to the latest known technologies but you can see in the background circling the lovely soviet era telephones on is there you know we're also seeing frustration of russia essentially going after one of its own you mentioned the beginnings as one of the big success stories in terms of russia's technology companies and now you see russia basically trying to shut it down you don't see too many russian apps making it big internationally this is one of them right common thank you very much for that. two million public sector workers in germany are seemingly set for a pay rise reaching a provisional deal with employers following widespread strikes in recent days these