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Why Russian programmers are among the best in the world

June 18, 2021

Students from Russia regularly win international informatics olympiads. Many Russian programmers work for IT companies all over the world, creating popular software, online games and mobile apps.  Examples of the world’s most popular Russian-made programs are uncomplicated video game Tetris, designed by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov, with more than 500 million downloads in 2020; Pavel Durov’s messaging service Telegram, used …

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High tech reverberations from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

June 19, 2021

A notable part of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was dedicated to IT and digital transformation as well as the state’s role in these fields (see the forum’s topical sessions and its special Innovation Space). This major event took place on June 3-4, gathering much of the country’s political and business elite and some foreign …

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Russian urbanites embrace e-scooters

June 2, 2021

Russia is a relatively late bloomer in the market of shareable electric scooters, which are available for rent through a number of different smartphone apps.  E-scooters, fueled by billions in venture capital funding, first spread rapidly across the U.S. and quickly spread to European capitals. The vehicles, which take up less room than cars or even …

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In 2020, Russian e-commerce recorded one of the world’s highest growth rates

June 7, 2021

Specialized research agency Data Insight has just released the international version of its Russian e-commerce report for 2020. Domestic sales of physical goods amounted to 2.7 trillion rubles (some $37 billion at the average exchange rate of the year), up 58% from 2019 — placing Russia among the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce markets. Several segments recorded …

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Mapping the routes of the Internet for geopolitics: The case of Eastern Ukraine

May 19, 2021

A team of French and US researchers has just published a paper about the geopolitical significance of data routing, through the analysis of Eastern Ukraine. Their paper proposes “new methodologies to understand and represent the new forms of power rivalries and imbalances that occur within the lower layers of cyberspace.” “We [selected] Eastern Ukraine as …

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BBC decodes the tech world of Russia

May 11, 2021

BBC has launched a radio series on “The Real Internet Giants” covering leading tech scenes across the world. Following China, the second instalment of the series looks at Russia. This episode uncovers who the movers and shakers of Russia’s internet landscape really are, finds out where the country is leading on cyber innovation and consider …

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Russian researchers propose Big Data approach to analyze startup growth dynamics

April 29, 2021

Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have developed a new methodology that leverages Big Data to “analyze the growth dynamics of technology-based new ventures.” The key findings of the research are summarized as follows: Google Trends is a credible source of high-quality data for analyzing new ventures; It can be used …

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Eastern Europe quarterly review: Major deals secured abroad; local startups escape political turmoil

April 28, 2021

Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The last column by EWDN Chief Editor Adrien Henni highlights the most notable industry facts and trends in the first quarter of 2021. Almost no major local deals took place in this period, but Eastern …

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Fighting brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village

April 30, 2021

Founded in 2015 near Kazan, Tatarstan — some 800 km east from Moscow, — Innopolis provides a glimpse into what technocrats within Putin’s regime hope will be the vision of a future Russia. As the government looks for ways to make the country less dependent on hydrocarbons and to build up the national tech sector, which is …

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2020 report: Russian VC market fell to $702 million, foreign investment reached new lows

December 31, 2021

Dsight, a Moscow based business intelligence company with a focus on investment, has just released the English version of its yearly Russian venture report. The trends are disappointing, with a 20% contraction of total investment volume — from $869 million in 2019 to $702.8 million in 2020. Dsight attributes this fall to the “unpredictability of the …

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From fintech, to transport, to medtech, blockchain practice takes off in Russia

March 24, 2021

ICT Moscow, an internationally-oriented resource on technology development in Russia and Moscow, has released a dedicated section to feature blockchain practice in the country. Fifty-two practices are featured, involving such companies as Kaspersky Lab, M.Video, Megafon, Norilsk Nickel, Rostelecom, Russian Railways, Sber, S7 Airlines, as well as the Federal Tax Service of Russia and the …

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Russia’s pursuit of Internet sovereignty backfires, again

March 16, 2021

A Kremlin attempt to slow down Twitter caused government websites to crash and raised new questions about its ambitious plans to regulate the internet. Wednesday last week was supposed to be a big day for Andrei Lipov, a 51-year-old Russian top official trusted with the Kremlin’s most sensitive internet initiatives. A not very successful internet …

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