Oleg Kouzbit

Oleg Kouzbit is Managing Editor at Marchmont News, a bilingual resource dedicated to innovation across Russian regions. He regularly contributes articles to East-West Digital News.

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Twitter acquiesces to Russia’s content-blocking while Google battles it in court

November 19, 2014

The Russian government is making headway in persuading some of the world’s leading Internet players to block content that it has labeled as illegal. Roskomnadzor, a federal agency that oversees telecoms, IT, and mass communications, announced last Friday that it has come to an understanding on the matter with Twitter. In the first three weeks of …

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Buran invests in Russia’s nascent online ticketing market

November 19, 2014

Last week, Ponominalu.ru, a Moscow-based online provider of show tickets, announced the completion of its first round of financing, securing $1.5 million from Buran Venture Capital at an undisclosed valuation. Ponominalu.ru is expected to use the investment capital to beef up its team, explore further regional opportunities, and offer the events ticket market in Russia its …

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Siberian children’s fund launches online charity network

November 12, 2020

Russia’s first ever charity social network launched earlier this month to enable handicapped children in Siberia’s Tomsk region to publish blogs and charities across the world to donate online for the kids’ treatment, the five-year-old regional Ordinary Miracle charity fund for children announced. Elena Makarova, the fund’s president, said at a press conference at RIA …

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Undeterred by debt, VimpelCom eyes “interesting opportunity” in Canada

November 19, 2014

VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, is considering a North American expansion amid negative market sentiments over the company’s already weighty debt level. VimpelCom CEO Jo Lunder told Bloomberg earlier this year that his company “has an interesting opportunity in Canada” and may consider organic growth or acquisitions there. He declined to elaborate, however, leaving …

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Smartphone OS: Android and Windows Phone enjoy fast growth; Symbian in free fall

November 19, 2014

Windows Phone powered smartphones gained the third largest market share in Russia in the fourth quarter of 2012, a study by IDC Russia/CIS found, outshining Nokia’s Symbian after having surpassed Apple’s iOS in the previous quarter. Windows enabled mobile devices accounted for 7% of the Russian market, trailing only Google’s Android, the undeniable leader with 69.6%, …

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Leading Russian mobile operators to pool efforts for NFC promotion

November 19, 2014

Russia’s leading mobile operators are considering jointly promoting the Near Field Communication (NFC) standards in Russia. To support the effort, the mobile giants envision establishing an alliance similar to such international NFC-focused industry unions as Oscar in the UK or ISIS in the U.S. In an interview with the Russian business daily Vedomosti, Alexander Popovsky, …

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MTS boosts Windows 8 through “demo zones” in outlet network

November 19, 2014

Weekly sales of Windows Phone powered smartphones at MTS’ new “demo zone” feature outlets have grown a sturdy 2.5 times over the past four months, and tablet PC sales have shown a 30% increase, MTS announced last week. Such are the early results of a strategic initiative the Russian mobile phone operator launched with Microsoft last November …

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TTK consolidates assets, becomes major Russian telecom operator

November 19, 2014

Russian telecom operator TTK has announced the completion of an across-the-board buyout of 18 regional subsidiaries previously owned by Russian Railways, the national rail operator and TTK’s sole shareholder. To accomplish the task, TTK in December sold 1.069 billion rubles (about $36 million) worth of new shares to Russian Railways, which paid with its stakes …

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Russia emerges as “clear fiber leader” in Europe’s FTTH deployment

November 19, 2014

Russia outpaced the entire European Union in new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the second half of 2012, laying the foundation for a “head start” on deploying cutting-edge fiber-enabled technologies, an industry organization announced last week. In its latest study, published on February 20, the FTTH Council of Europe found that, between July and December of last …

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While overall Russian IT market slows, cloud segment expected to skyrocket

November 19, 2014

Russia’s IT market was generally limping along last year, growing just 3.9% between January and September 2012 – a record low rate that’s still above the global average. Timur Farukshin, Director of Consulting at IDC Russia, in an exchange with CNews.ru last week, shared the IDC’s preliminary analytics for the period. Farukshin expressed confidence that …

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GLONASS ground monitoring launches in Brazil

November 19, 2014

A GLONASS ground-based control station was launched last week in Brazil, two years after NIS, the Russian national navigation service provider, forged local alliances to promote GLONASS navigation technology in the Latin American market. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev found it an important enough event to devote time to seeing the station during his recent …

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