Ekaterina Preobrazhenskaya

Ekaterina Preobrazhenskaya, 21, is a student at Moscow's Higher School of Economics in the Faculty of Media Communications. She graduated from the Perm Branch of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, specializing in financial management, investor relations, and corporate governance.

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From St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, 180,000 webcams monitored Russia’s presidential election

In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …

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High tech holding RTI to acquire system integrator NVision

RTI, a large Russian group of high-tech research and production companies, announced on Tuesday the acquisition of NVision, a Moscow based system integrator with regional representative offices in Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, as well as in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. RTI will pay $200 million in exchange for a 50% stake in NVision, while …

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Novosibirsk authorities to attract $1 billion to fund innovation in Akademgorodok

The authorities of the Novosibirsk region in Siberia announced their intention to create a world-class innovation center in Akademgorodok, a major academic and scientific hub. The regional government will invest 10 billion rubles, or approximately $330 million, in the project by 2017, and expects the total investment from various sources to reach as much as …

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Skolkovo woos German startup in Singapore

Taxipedia, a German startup that has developed a mobile app for calling taxis and getting discounted fares, was awarded a Skolkovo Foundation grant last week, reported Tass-Telecom last week. The ceremony was held at the Singapore campus of INSEAD, a top ranking international business school with its main campus in Fontainebleau, France.

Mail.ru seeking Mail.ua domain to offer services in Ukrainian language

Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, is in negotiations with Internet Invest Group, Ukraine’s largest web hosting service provider, for the rights to the mail.ua domain name. The deal is expected to be completed at the end of this year or early next year. This domain will be …

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Launch of annual Internet Life Conference in Moscow attracts big, small industry players

Held for the first time last week in Moscow, the Internet Life Conference made a splash in the nascent startup community by offering insight on current Internet trends, online strategies and solutions. The conference was organized by CareerLab, a specialized educational center in the field of ​​software engineering and ALM solutions, in partnership with Microsoft, IBM and a number …

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Russian systems integrator acquires Canadian e-book software provider

Canadian e-book software and firmware provider Evident Point, which has a separate development team in Moscow, has been acquired by LANIT, a major Russian company providing a diversified range of systems integration and other IT services. Neither the terms of the transaction nor general future plans of the two companies were disclosed.

Skolkovo counts over 200 residents

Last week, 29 companies were awarded the status of Skolkovo residents, bringing the total number of participants at the innovation center to 220. Applications were reviewed by a panel of expert board members of the Skolkovo Foundation, which included Russian and foreign researchers, entrepreneurs and venture investors.

Skolkovo financing partly unveiled, details remain undisclosed

Skolkovo, the state sponsored innovation hub under completion near Moscow, is expecting an approximate 135 billion rubles, or $4.14 billion, in investment between 2012 and 2015. Part of this sum, at least 55 billion rubles or $1.8 billion, will be a provided in the form of loans from Vnesheconombank (VEB), the state owned bank for …

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Skolkovo holds roadshows in Silicon Valley, Munich and Vienna

Skolkovo Foundation, the state owned enterprise building an international innovation hub near Moscow, completed a series of roadshows in Western countries to present its projects. The first presentation, held in Vienna on September 14, focused on biomedical, energy saving technology, and IT projects. The Skolkovo delegation also discussed possible cooperation in the field of nuclear …

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