Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends in Eastern Europe. Since January 2019, EWDN chief editor Adrien Henni has offered a regular column to highlight the most notable industry facts and trends as well as promising tech innovations from this region.
This full-year 2019 review lists the most important investment and acquisition deals in the region, singles out the “tech stars of the year,” and analyzes the evolutions of the legal environment as well as the implications of the Calvey affair in Russia.
“In 2019, Russia’s moves towards digital restrictions and Internet isolation made its stated technological development goals more illusory than ever – and the country is unlikely to take another road in the foreseeable future,” concludes Henni.
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