Armada, a Russian group offering software development and other IT services, announced last Friday that it sold 2.4 million additional shares for $13 each on Russia’s MICEX and RTS stock exchanges.
Russia ranks 77th of the 138 countries listed in the latest Networked Readiness Index compiled by the World Economic Forum, up three positions from 80th in the index’s 2009 edition. The index is a component of the Global Information Technology Report published annually by the Forum.
The Russian Duma has adopted a new law on electronic signatures, which will replace the previous one of January 2002. The new law will come into force after signing by the Russian President and official publication.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been reported as lamenting the fact that while Google and Yandex are vast archives for storing everyday user-generated “art,” the organization of this information is a “complete mess” and needs to be channeled to a more civilized place.” “We have devoted a lot of time to debate about whether Russia …
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has entrusted the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media with the task of integrating the databases of all departments and ministries before to July 1, 2011. “We’re talking about a single portal for all public services, information and service sites, integrated communications channels, departmental and regional data banks,” said Mr Putin. …
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Rostelecom, the national telecommunications operator, was appointed last Monday by the Russian government to implement important parts of the federal program Information Society 2011–2020, including the “creation of a national platform for distributed data treatment in which computing resources are provided to users as Internet services” – or cloud computing in simpler terms.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development unveiled last week an online map of the country’s investment projects, proposals and sites as well as special economic, socio-economic indicators, logistical infrastructure and educational centers.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered that federal agencies be provided with digital signature technology by June 2011 and that they begin using an electronic document management (EDM) system in January 2012.
In a speech dedicated to Internet freedom in the world, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced yesterday that the Department of State would open Twitter accounts in several new languages, including Russian.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language Internet at the 2011 Runet Blog award ceremony.
