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Microsoft scraps Russian schools tablet program over Rotenberg blacklisting

November 3, 2014

Microsoft has suspended plans to provide tablets to Russian schools under a deal expected to benefit a textbook publisher headed by Kremlin ally Arkady Rotenberg, citing “concerns” over Western sanctions, a news report said. According to an agreement signed in late September, Microsoft would “provide free of charge, to [publisher] Prosveshcheniye, the same type of technical assistance that [it] provides at no cost to thousands of schools and publishers worldwide,” Microsoft said …

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Russia’s biotech innovations are more Star Trek than Star Wars

October 22, 2014

Although information technology was once the darling of Russia’s innovation sector, a sanctions-flecked economic slowdown is pushing manufacturing and biomedicine startups to the fore — and thankfully the results are more “Star Trek” than “Star Wars.” At a startup contest at last week’s Open Innovations Forum organized by the Russian Venture Company and Moscow’s Center for Innovative Development, inventors of robotized industrial solutions and new biomedical products took most of the …

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EBRD pulls out of planned joint fund with Rusnano

August 19, 2014

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, or EBRD, has pulled out of a planned joint investment fund with state-owned technology investment company Rusnano, after the EU clamped down on EBRD lending in Russia over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine, Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais was quoted as saying by ITAR-Tass on Tuesday. The EBRD, which has more than 300 active projects in Russia, froze its financing of new projects …

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Interior ministry seeks ways to track Tor user data

July 24, 2014

Russia’s Interior Ministry is offering nearly 4 million rubles ($114,000) for research on ways to get data on users of the anonymous web surfing network Tor. The announcement, posted on the government’s official state procurement website earlier this month, comes amid a massive upsurge in Russian users of Tor, which allows Internet users to anonymously visit websites blocked in their country.

As crisis deepens, EBRD freezes new investment in Russia

July 23, 2014

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, or EBRD, on Wednesday froze financing of new projects in Russia amid escalating international condemnation of Russia’s alleged role in the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine. “A majority of the board of directors of the EBRD, including all European Union member states and several non-EU shareholders, have given clear guidance to the EBRD management that, for the time being, they will …

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eBay partners with Dostami.ru to make deliveries from US to Russia easier

May 21, 2014

eBay has signed a deal with Russian online store Dostami.ru that will increase the American Internet auction giant’s deliveries from the U.S. to Russia and the former Soviet republics, Lenta.ru reported Tuesday, citing representatives from both companies. The agreement will allow eBay users in the CIS to buy from sellers who don’t deliver to the region, and also to receive goods purchased from different sellers in one package, Vladimir Dolgov, …

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Visa, MasterCard better off quitting Russia, Morgan Stanley says

May 15, 2014

New legislation placing foreign payment service providers under the thumb of Russian regulators is so damaging to Visa and MasterCard that the two U.S. companies might be better off abandoning the Russian market, according to research by investment bank Morgan Stanley. Compliance with the new law will cost Visa and MasterCard at least $2.9 billion, …

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Moscow metro to create 4G network

May 13, 2014

The Moscow metro will hold a competition to create a unified mobile network throughout the city’s sprawling underground transport system, a source familiar with the metro’s plans told Itar-Tass on Monday. The planned competition was confirmed by two mobile operators, and a source close to the Moscow Department of Information Technology said that the winning …

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Microsoft, Oracle likely to stop working with Russian banks over sanctions

May 6, 2014

Leading U.S. IT companies Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and others may be cutting off services to Russian banks and companies to comply with Washington’s sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine, spreading the same political anxiety that the banking sector has experienced in recent months into the Russian IT market. The multinational tech companies have already joined in the government sanctions against the banks and may completely cease cooperation with …

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Russia’s Black Friday likely to break records

December 6, 2013

The Russian calendar is consistent in its delay versus the American one, even for e-commerce bonanzas, with the local version of Black Friday taking place this Friday. Online consumers in the US, who were expected to spend more than $680 million in one day, flexed their muscles during the event on Nov. 29, with retailers there saying Russia was in many cases the No. 1 foreign …

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Putin touts high-tech opportunities in Korea

November 13, 2013

President Vladimir Putin encouraged greater economic integration with the Pacific Rim countries and prioritized partnerships with South Korea in the field of high technology at a meeting in Seoul on Wednesday, Interfax reported. “We propose to put the main wager on integrating economically into the Pacific Rim, attracting direct foreign investments, and creating concrete conditions for the placement of export-oriented production facilities, primarily those focused on the Pacific Rim markets,” …

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