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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Skolkovo to scrutinize its resident companies and remove tricksters

November 19, 2014

In a bid to spruce up its ever-growing project portfolio, the Skolkovo Foundation has leaked to the press its plans to weed out ‘bad’ residents. In an exchange with the Russian business daily Vedomosti, Alexei Beltyukov, Skolkovo’s senior vice president for development and commercialization, said that the Foundation, which runs the state-sponsored Skolkovo innovation hub …

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Piracy in Russia’s music market eclipses legitimate sector – RIAA

November 19, 2014

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) issued a statement earlier this month showing that in music markets such as Russia and China, “the levels of piracy are so great that they essentially eclipse the output of the legitimate sector.” Commenting on this year’s broader annual “Special 301” report to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) …

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Russia’s state supported e-card idea lowers its ambitions

November 19, 2014

The universal electronic card (UEC), an ambitious initiative signed into law in 2010 and christened by then President Medvedev of Russia as a “primary ID card” for all Russians, is no longer universal. The sweeping introduction of the card, which had been slated for early next year, is “too burdensome” for regional coffers to afford, …

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‘Angry Birds’ to fly across Russia, hatching theme parks and pouring soft drinks

November 19, 2014

Finland’s Rovio, the developer of the popular Angry Birds mobile game series, has unveiled plans to open theme parks across Russia in the next 12 months. Peter Vesterbacka, the head of marketing at Rovio, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week that the Angry Birds amusement parks in Russia will be similar …

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Russia’s Pirate Party set to host banned websites abroad and blacklist government blacklisters

November 19, 2014

The Pirate Party of Russia, a socio-political group campaigning for “commerce-free exchange of information on the Internet,” is launching a specialized web hosting service, Piratehost.net, just three weeks after the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to register it officially for bureaucratic reasons. In his blog, Party vice chairman Stanislav Shakirov called his group’s initiative an …

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MTS to become satellite TV operator?

November 19, 2014

MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, is rumored to be eyeing diversification opportunities in the satellite TV business. Unnamed sources with purported knowledge of the firm’s plans leaked to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that MTS has ostensibly acquired five satellite-mounted transponders and is also issuing tenders seeking 3G-supporting subscriber equipment. China’s …

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Kaspersky Lab drops IPO plan to remain “flexible”

November 19, 2014

Kaspersky Lab, the leading Russian IT security company, is shelving its IPO plans and wants to buy back the 20% stake it sold to a private equity investor a year ago, announced founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky. With cyber-threats today increasingly aggressive and constantly evolving, Kaspersky thinks his company “must be as flexible as possible …

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Russian developer launches long-awaited search engine in Vietnam; eyes broader Southeast Asia

November 19, 2014

A new Vietnamese-language search engine, developed by Russians, was launched last week – almost two years after the idea for the project was first floated and a tentative launch date of April 1, 2011 had been announced. The search engine, christened Côc Côc (which stands for “rat-a-tat” in Vietnamese) is now up and running, and tailored …

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Rikor TV rolls out Android-based device to ‘smarten up’ television

November 19, 2014

Rikor TV, a Russian developer of interactive TV solutions and related customer-oriented software, announced last week its plans to bring its Smart TV-Box, an Android 4.1 powered media center, to market this spring. Equipped with the media center, which uses Exynos 4412, a 1.6GHz four-kernel processor by Samsung, any flat-screen TV set turns into a …

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IT leader IBS innovates in energy saving and connected vehicle solutions

November 19, 2014

Moscow-based IBS Group, one of the largest IT service providers and software suppliers in Central and Eastern Europe, unveiled in late January its new ‘cloud’ platform, DMMessenger. Designed specifically for the energy and utilities market, the platform empowers smart grid solutions with a collaborative tool for regulating energy consumption. According to Mikhail Minkevich, vice president …

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FSB to forge IT shield against global cyber-attacks

November 19, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed last week the creation of a government system capable of anticipating, preventing, and assisting in  the aftermath of cyber-attacks on national IT resources. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the post-Soviet successor of the KGB, will be responsible for the project. In addition to warding off cyber-raids, the prospective system is …

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CERN physicists to benefit from Yandex’s machine learning solution

November 19, 2014

Yandex, Russia’s search giant, announced earlier this week that it is now an associate member of the Open Lab of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Under the terms of the recently signed agreement, CERN researchers will be able to tap into Yandex’s computing capabilities and data processing technologies. In exchange, the Russian company …

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