Over the past several months, Muscovites have been busy complaining on social media that their GPS-powered mobile apps are malfunctioning. Users of Yandex.Navigator have run into frequent problems, for example, watching their vehicles’ locations bounce...

Ukrainian volunteers practice drone operations, not far from Kiev, before being sent to the eastern-Ukrainian conflict zone for aerial researching. Photograph: Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA We arrived in Krasnoarmiysk, Ukraine, at 3am. Two soldiers wearing balaclavas...

The year 2015 is off for a relatively slow start in the Eastern European tech scene, but there was still enough news in January to navigate through. To make things easier, we’ve put together the most important headlines of the month in a handy round-up....

When I began thinking of this animated Op-Docs video, I had two things in mind. The first was the adoption of drones by the Seattle Police Department. (The program has since been scuttled.) The second was Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1924 novel “We,” which was...