According to a new law that comes into force on Jan. 1, Russian official bodies will no longer be allowed to use foreign software but will have to use Russian programs, and the new regulations will possibly be later extended to cover state companies. Russia Beyond The Headlines analyses this government initiative and the opportunities it …
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The GenerationS competition, organized in Moscow by the state-owned fund of funds RVC, ended with 35 startups receiving investments of more than $2.2 million from more than 150 of the project’s partners. These included foreign and Russian companies such as SAP, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Johnson&Johnson, Sberbank-Technology, NPO Saturn, and many others. The approximate $142,000 in grand prize money …
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HSE Inc., the business incubator of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, a leading Russian university, has been listed number 14 in the world and number 7 in Europe by the UBI Global 2015 ranking. The results were announced in late November in London. HSE Inc. was the first start-up incubator in Russia when it opened back in 2006. …
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Since its humble beginnings in a Moscow dorm room in the 1990s, ABBYY has grown to become one of the world’s leading developers of IT solutions. Today, ABBYY’s technologies are licensed by some of the world’s largest manufacturers, including Microsoft, Acer, Panasonic and Samsung. In this interview with Russia Beyond The Headlines, ABBYY’s CEO Sergei Andreyev speaks about the challenges the company faces in the new economic reality. Which …
Next year, a network of kick scooter rental stations will open in Moscow, St Petersburg and Kazan, then in Berlin, Brussels and Paris. The service, designed by Russian startup Samocat.net, will be available through an app, and rental points will be linked into a single network through a cloud platform. Samocat’s founder, Vasily Bykov, has …
Astro Digital, a startup created by Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold, won second place in the startup competition at Slush, which is a major event in northern Europe for innovators and developers interested in attracting international investors. “I’ve always been interested in the space industry and wanted to apply space technology to everyday life,” Kotenko-Lengold, a graduate from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and …
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A new system uniting IT and medicine is taking its first steps into the Russian market. Billed as digital health, its aims are to help people save money on treatment, to accelerate medical services, and to make those services accessible to people living in the remote regions of Russia’s eleven time zones. Entrepreneurs believe this …
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Russian supermodel and philanthropist, Natalia Vodianova, is now also a startup co-founder and creator of a micro-charity app aimed at the millennials — people aged 15-35 who cannot imagine life without their smartphones. The app hopes to “add meaning” to their online existence. The app, christened ‘Elbi,’ makes possible micro donations of £1 or $1 to charitable …
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A Russian company has announced a successful experiment implanting 3D-printed thyroid glands into mice. The results, which some experts say might revolutionise medicine, will be published next week, “We had some difficulties during the study, but in the end the thyroid gland turned out to be functional,” said Dmitri Fadin, development director at 3D Printing Solutions, to …
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Dauria Aerospace, a Russian space technology company, plans to develop and launch 10 satellites to monitor life in some of the largest cities in the world, primarily those located on a new Silk Road. Chinese investment fund Cybernaut will spend $70 million on the project as part of the Urban Observer project to conduct daily …
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A group of blind entrepreneurs from Russia are launching a smartphone to help those who can’t see, and they plan to target the U.S., Scandinavia and Israel. The EISmart smartphone for the visually-impaired is a hybrid device that combines the functions of a cell phone, an audio-book reader, a GPS navigator and much more. It …
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Russian scientists Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov have created a new sensor that can detect cancer cells and diagnose diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and herpes in the comfort of your own home. “We are using a nano-mechanical circuit with a very high sensitivity,” Fedyanin told RBTH. Previously, such technologies worked only under low temperature …
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