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Survey: Russians’ online shopping preferences in 2016

January 25, 2017

Last year the Russian e-commerce market reached reached approximately $16.3 billion in 2016 (physical goods only), including an estimated $4.3 billion for cross-border sales, mainly from China, according to EWDN’s latest industry report. A survey conducted in September 2016 by Yandex Market, a major online shopping aggregator in Russia, and GfK Ru, a market and consumer information company, highlights …

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ITMO students are the best coders in the world, says new ranking

December 27, 2016

Which colleges have the best coders in the world? This simple question is not addressed by academic rankings. The “Top Computer Science Programs ranking of U.S. News & World Report, for example, takes into account such criteria as number of research papers produced, global research reputation, and number of conferences — but practical coding skills are not even …

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Internet “not free” in Russia, says US watchdog

November 29, 2016

Freedom House, a US-based NGO monitoring the progress or restriction of human freedoms as it perceives them around the globe, has published its most recent Freedom on the Net 2016 report, the sixth in its series. In its findings, the NGO assigns Russia the “not free” status, while the country was considered to be “partly free” and “relatively uncensored” …

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Pioneering report highlights Chinese and Russian innovation systems and their growing ties

November 10, 2016

As Russia has been “pivoting to the East” over the past few years, a study released earlier this month aims to describe the two countries’ innovation ecosystems, and analyze the new links being established between them. The report, named “China and Russia: Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” is a joint project by the Skolkovo Foundation on the …

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Report: Almost half of Russian users shop on smartphones

October 22, 2016

Nearly half of Russian online shoppers make purchases via their smartphones, but an almost equal amount distrust online payment systems, according to new research by Nielsen. In the last six months, 44% of Russian online consumers used mobile devices to purchase goods or services at least once, according to the Nielsen survey. The global average was 38%. According …

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Report: Russia’s online economy accounts for nearly 2.5% of GDP

October 13, 2016

The Russian online economy reached 1.94 trillion rubles (roughly $31 billion at the average exchange rate) in 2015, according to “The Runet Economy,” a study released last month by the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). This amount is equal to 2.4% of Russia’s gross domestic product, slightly more (0.2 percentage points) than in 2014. Due …

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Russia’s top 10 websites 2016

September 28, 2016

As we all know, a new craze can have an impact on users’ online activity but for the most part our modern day Internet users spend a good portion of their time accessing their email, using search engines, and browsing social media. Russian users spend their time online like most others on the web. Russia’s …

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China and Russia have the best developers in the world, leaving USA and India far behind, says new ranking

September 9, 2016

Which countries have the best programmers in the world? HackerRank, a platform that ranks engineers based on their coding skills and helps companies discover talent faster, has tried to answer this question based on coding challenges. Attracting hundreds of thousands of developers from all over the world, these challenges involved a variety of languages and knowledge domains, …

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New ranking reveals Russia’s top e-commerce sites

August 5, 2016

Data Insight, a reputable Moscow-based research agency, and Ruward, a publisher of industry rankings, have just published the 2016 “E-Commerce Index TOP-100.” This index ranks Russian e-commerce sites by sales volumes, number of orders, average order value and other criteria, over the course of 2015. Leading the ranking is Ulmart, a St. Petersburg based online retailer which has …

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Russian mobile Internet users in 2016

July 27, 2016

Approximately 19% of Russians only use their mobile phone to access the Internet, compared with 52% of Russians who use both computers and mobile devices to access the Internet. Computers are still a popular way for Russians to access the Internet, but mobile devices offer convenient and affordable access always, compared to a stationary desktop …

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New report highlights latest trends in global payment and e-commerce industries

August 2, 2016

The Paypers, a major news and research agency covering the international payments industry, has just released the 2016 edition of its Ecommerce Payment Methods Report. An educational overview of the global payments industry, this report’s focuses on providing a framework for an easy understanding of the mechanism behind card-based and alternative payments within the wider standpoint of …

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