Sber has presented its leaderboard called Russian SuperGLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation), the first ranking of neural networks for the Russian language. A neural network’s ranking position depends on how well it deals with tasks in logic, commonsense, reasoning, and general language understanding. Designed by the SberAI team with Huawei and the Higher School of Economics, the …
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the digital landscape in the Russia and other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), says the latest GSMA report about this region. Mobile operators in the region have engaged with the public and private sectors on initiatives to alleviate the impact of the pandemic …
According to Boris Ovchinnikov (a co-founder of e-commerce research agency Data Insight), the frequency of Internet searches for the word obonyanie (“sense of smell” in Russian) may serve as a metric for gauging the spread of the novel coronavirus across Russia. Since temporary loss of smell is a common symptom of virus, tracking the public’s interest in this …
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While gold is considered a safe heaven, it is not currently a mainstream investment among Russians, whose money is more likely to go into other options, including cryptocurrencies. Less than one-fifth of Russian investors, or just 16%, own gold and coins, but most are positive towards the idea of investing in the yellow metal, according …
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What prompts researchers, heads of corporations, startup founders, designers, architects, and artists to choose a particular city? Which megacities have an edge in the competition for the best minds? To answer these and other questions, an expert team from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics — a top Russian university — has developed the ‘HSE Global Innovation Index’ (HSE GCII). HSE …
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According to BCG report Global Payments 2020: Fast Forward into the Future, Russia is among the five world leaders in terms of speed for the transition to non-cash payments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Analysts calculated the net change in consumer cash payments, based on the proportion of consumers who used cash more frequently during the …
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The Skolkovo Foundation and VR_Bank have evaluated the digitalization level of the top 50 Russian banks in the first half of 2020. Tinkoff Bank – which has just agreed an acquisition deal with Yandex – became the leader and moved up one place compared to 2019. It is followed by state-controlled bank VTB, which moved …
Tinkoff, VTB and Sberbank top Russian bank digitalization ranking Read More
AliExpress Russia and Tinkoff Oplata, a merchant acquiring service, took a close look at online orders made through the platform in Russia in 2019–2020. The study is based on the analysis of transaction data from 6.5 million Russian bank cards processed by Tinkoff Payment as well as AliExpress customer data. During the first eight months of …
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Ukraine, Russia, China, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and the US are among the top-ranking countries by cryptocurrency adoption, according to the 2020 Global Crypto Adoption Index compiled by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis. Chainalysis’ 2020 Global Crypto Adoption Index, released earlier this week, ranks 154 countries based on their cryptocurrency adoption. The crypto adoption index …
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VPN provider Surfshark has issued a research on the “digital quality of life” (DQL) across 85 countries of the world. Revealing the factors that “have the greatest impact on digital well-being,” the study says which areas should be “prioritized to improve the potential” of a country. The countries covered account for 6.3 billion people, or 81% of the …
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My.Games, the game unit of LSE-listed Mail.ru Group, has just published the ‘Portrait of a Russian Gamer 2019,’ a study about players passionate about mobile, desktop, or console games, with an assessment of the Russian gaming market for 2019. According to My.Games calculations, the volume of the Russian video game market in 2019 increased by 14% year-on-year …
Russian video game market grew to $1.9 billion in 2019 Read More
Last week Russian digital banking major Tinkoff released a sophisticated online tool, the ‘Tinkoff CoronaIndex,’ which aims to track the country’s economic activity during the pandemic. The index relies on data from more than 11 million users of the Tinkoff ecosystem, including retail banking customers, some 550,000 businesses, and more than 60,000 customers acquiring services. The beta version of Tinkoff CoronaIndex is …
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