Earlier this week, the global energy group Shell announced its Russian division has inked an agreement with Russian company Antel-Oil on joint research into the development of software to process 3D seismic prospecting data. The agreement is reported to be Shell’s investment contribution to a Russian project called the “Creation of supercomputer technologies for seismic …
Authorities in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia have unveiled plans to build a 3 billion ruble (approximately $100 million) hi-tech industrial park in the region, the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported, citing a source in the regional Ministry of Investment and Innovation. According to the source, more than two thirds of the total amount is …
$100 million technopark mapped out in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia Read More
The Dubna International University of Nature, Society and Man, located in the town of Dubna some 130km north of Moscow, has announced that its innovators have developed software for an intelligent video surveillance system that can automatically recognize vehicles’ license plates and control road gates to let authorized vehicles pass inside a secure area. The …
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University student innovators in Siberia’s coal-rich Kemerovo region have developed a technology to monitor boring equipment in coal mines using iPhones or other smartphones, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the Kemerovo regional administration. Yevgeny Mametyev and Konstantin Ponomarev, the developers, are said to have presented their innovative device to …
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Russia’s Far Eastern region of Yakutia (Sakha) is planning to open its own hi-tech park by 2015, the Russian news agency Interfax reported earlier this week, citing a statement by Anatoly Semenov, the CEO of Yakutia, a techno-park already in operation in the area. According to Semenov, the future park will accommodate innovation companies working …
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Mikron, a semiconductor chip-based electronics maker headquartered just outside Moscow in Zelenograd, is considering new markets for its products in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America, RFID Expert reported last week. Mikron reportedly has plans to expand into these markets in partnership with GoGlobal, a German start-up. The two want to offer their RFID …
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Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have developed a new device that they hope could replace USB flash drives, the “Science and Technologies RF” portal reported, citing Alexei Zablotsky, PhD, vice dean of MIPT’s Physical and Quantum Electronics department and the deputy chief of the Institute’s Multiple-Access Center. “One of the …
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Scientists at the thin-film laboratory of Vladivostok-based Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have mastered the art of making nano-portraits, the Russian media have reported. According to Alexander Samarda, an associate professor of FEFU’s computer systems department, the nano-portraits are created on a 50-nanometer thick polymer film pre-applied to a silicon substrate.
Intersoft Eurasia, a Moscow-based startup developing a smartphone-compatible dosimeter-radiometer, has announced new partnerships with two Japanese companies, Honda Electronics and Nisso Boeki, for manufacturing and marketing its product. The partners are expected to jointly set up shop and start selling the dosimeter-radiometer, christened Do-Ra, in Japan and across the globe.
The Magadan region, also known as Kolyma – a name which evokes Stalin-era Gulag camps for an older generation of Russians – is now looking at a future marked by new levels of innovation activity. In this region of the Russian Far East, 6,000 km from Moscow, verifiable innovation activity grew 11% last year to …
The Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia announced last week that a team of students and postgraduates designated WAFT (for We Are From TPU) has developed a project enabling drug-free memory regeneration. The Total Recall project offers a software-enabled system that helps people with amnesia regain their memory by analyzing the movement pattern of their …
According to Russian law, the LTE equipment developed and manufactured jointly by Nokia Siemens Network and Micran in Tomsk, Siberia, is not considered “Russian-made.” This legal definition has prevented Vainakh Telecom, a telecom operator in the Republic of Chechnya, in Russia’s Northern Caucasus area, from launching its new 4G network because the network has been built using …
No legal green light for Russian use of Russian-made Nokia Siemens telecom equipment Read More
