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Skolkovo represents Russia at Venice Arts Exhibition

August 29, 2012

At this year’s prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened Aug. 27, Russia will be represented exclusively by a team from Skolkovo, Russia’s world-class tech hub under completion and futuristic city-in-planning. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines spoke to Grigory Revzin, member of Skolkovo’s architecture-planning council, about what Skolkovo hopes to achieve at the exhibition …

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Virgin Mobile considers LTE project in Russia

August 29, 2012

British entrepreneur Richard Branson is once again planning to launch his Virgin Mobile business in Russia. The announcement of a possible entrance for Virgin Mobile into the Russian market was made at the opening of the operator’s division in Poland. A source at one of Russia’s telecommunications operators anonymously disclosed that Virgin Mobile is intending …

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Apple goes wholesale in Russia

August 22, 2012

Apple has registered a local company, Apple Rus, to supply its products directly to retail chains in Moscow and St. Petersburg as soon as 2013. According to data from SPARK-Interfax, Apple Rus is 99.5 percent owned by Apple Holding B.V. with the remaining 0.5 percent belonging to Irish company Apple Distribution. The company’s charter capital …

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Mail.ru Group to pay record dividends

August 9, 2012

Mail.ru Group, a leading, LSE-listed Russian Internet group, will pay $800 million in dividends – mostly as a result of the sale of shares of Facebook. In May, Mail.ru received approximately $850 million for its share in the American social network. This is the first time in its history that Mail.ru has paid dividends, and they …

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Russian IT market faces cloudy future

March 15, 2012

Even though the Russian IT market is growing fast, having recovered completely from the 2008-2009 crisis, a number of issues have come to the forefront. The Russian Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev has reported that the country’s information technologies market saw a growth spurt of 14.6 percent in 2011, and the Ministry of Economic Development predicts …

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