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Acceptance of applications from employees of IT companies for a deferment from military service under the autumn draft ends on August 8 at 23:59 Moscow time. You can apply at State Services Portal.

14-year-old Bulat Nurgaliev proved that age is not a barrier to achieving great heights in the world of technology. He won the drone competition at the Archipelago 2023 festival organized by the NTI Foundation. Bulat Nurgaliev became the youngest operator of unmanned aerial vehicles in Russia, having won nine cups and medals at the design and educational intensive.

All-Russian voting takes place on the State Services Portal until August 13. All settlements with a population of 100 to 500 people take part in the voting. Every resident of Tatarstan over 18 can cast their vote for one rural settlement located in a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, in which the voter has a permanent registration at the place of residence.

MTS RED, a cybersecurity subsidiary of the MTS ecosystem, has conducted research on phishing emails. The survey revealed that in the first half of 2023, residents of the Volga region most often faced with this type of cyber fraud and received suspicious mailings 1-2 times a month or more often.

Phishing is a type of Internet fraud in which attackers send mass emails or messages in messengers containing malicious attachments or links. The most common mailing is from the name of well-known brands or government agencies. 

Under the online project «Call back youself», a webinar «Real estate without risk: protect yourself from fraud» will be held. The Department of Information Technology of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, as well as representatives of large sites for the purchase, sale and rental of real estate will inform how to protect from fraud in this area. The webinar will be held on August 4 at 11:00, you can connect at the link. It is also possible to watch it by clicking «Watch webinar» on the project portal https://sam.mos.ru

On August 20, Tatarstan Ministry of Digitalization together with Technopark in the sphere of high technologies IT-park organizes competitions on mini-football, basketball, beach volleyball and GTO (Ready for Labor and Defense) standarts in the extreme park «Uram».

On July 25, the remote admission of applications to universities for state-funded places ended. In total this year, applicants submitted 2.8 million applications, Russian Ministry of Digital Development reported. Including 2.2 million submitted the applications through «Admission to the university online» superservice.

MTS, a digital ecosystem, reports on the expansion of high-speed home Internet network in the fifth largest city of Tatarstan. Now another five thousand residents of Zelenodolsk have the opportunity to use the home Internet, IP-TV, and at the same time save monthly up to 40 percent on digital services.

In June, the «Letay» mobile operator built and upgraded 23 base stations in 18 settlements of Tatarstan. The work to improve the quality of the 4G network affected apartment buildings, public spaces and venues for events of international and all-Russian significance. In Kazan, the data transfer rate increased at base stations (BS) of the company near the zoo and in densely populated Salavat Kupere Residential Complex. Now subscribers should not worry about the quality of communication at home or in city areas.

MegaFon Telecommunication Company has launched fourth-generation communication facilities in the villages of Verkhnyaya Oshma and Nizhnyaya Oshma. The stable signal and Internet at an average speed of 20 Mbps will help residents of settlements stay connected and use the necessary digital services. About 1.5 thousand people live in settlements with a 300-year history.