Labor & HR issues

“A World Without Work:” First-ever AI-translated book published in Russia

December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020

Three months after The Guardian published an op-ed entirely written by AI, Yandex announces the “first-ever book translated by AI from English into Russian in less than a minute and published for a mainstream audience.” The book is that of Daniel Susskind, a famous English economist, on the coming era of artificial intelligence: A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, …

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Yandex offices raided by police in Minsk, employees evacuated to Moscow

August 25, 2020 August 31, 2020

Last week, Yandex evacuated a part of its Belarusian employees to Russia following a police raid on its Minsk office amid the unrest in the city. According to the Russian search giant, the Belarusian police were seeking to seize user data. Thus, on August 13, unidentified armed people came to Yandex’s office, presenting themselves as …

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Russia’s IT industry faces severe brain drain

June 21, 2020 June 23, 2020

The Russian IT industry will experience a severe brain drain in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and ensuing economic crisis, unless the government introduces support measures for the sector, major local IT companies warn. In 2020 to 2021, 10,000 to 15,000 IT professionals could leave Russia as the overall economic downturned caused by …

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Russian tech majors switch to home working amid mounting coronavirus fears

March 16, 2020 April 6, 2020

While the Russian authorities’ preventive measures for coronavirus have not been as strict to date as those enforced in China, Western Europe and the USA, a number of Russian businesses have already taken action. Thus, the end of last week saw several major tech companies invite their office employees to work from home. Yandex, the local …

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US startup Occipital absorbs GeoCV team to launch R&D activities in Moscow

October 16, 2019 October 18, 2019

US computer vision startup Occipital is launching an R&D office in Moscow, having absorbed the team of GeoCV, a startup with Russian roots. “By joining the teams we will enable new computer vision applications, which bring value to consumers and businesses,” said Gleb Krivovyaz, GeoCV co-founder and CTO. “Teaching devices to see and understand the world in …

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Mail.Ru Group acquires online recruiting service Worki

May 28, 2019 May 30, 2019

Moscow-based online recruiting service Worki, “is now part of Mail.Ru Group,” the company reported in its blog, without specifying the size and price of the stake acquired by the group. “After the deal is settled, Worki will work in synergy with other projects of Mail.ru Group, including its classifieds website Youla, thus increasing the group’s presence on the …

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Russian-founded ride-hailing service raises $15 million, moves headquarters to London

April 29, 2019 May 2, 2019

Wheely, a Russian-founded luxury ride-hailing service, hase raised $15 million from a pool of investors that includes UK investment partnership Concentric and three Russian tech businessmen – Oleg Cheltsov, Dmitry Eremeev and Mikhail Sokolov. Wheely allows customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app. Its service is available in six Russian …

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Sasha Galitsky: “The strengths and weaknesses of Eastern Europe in the field of technology are related in part to its communist past”

February 27, 2018 February 27, 2018

Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky, Ph. D., is co-founder and managing partner at Almaz Capital Partners, one of the most prominent international funds with roots in Eastern Europe. This interview is an excerpt from “Startup Investment & Innovation in Emerging Europe,” a research study just released by East-West Digital News. Which technologies are CEE startups strongest …

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This robot is entering the US market after automating recruitment in 220 Russian companies

September 22, 2017 September 23, 2017

Artificial intelligence tends to find applications in virtually every field today, and HR is no exception. A Russian startup called Stafory, launched two years ago with less than $10,000 in capital, has created a recruiting robot called ‘Vera’ (‘faith’ in Russian). Stafory initially developed an online platform intended for companies to interact more efficiently with …

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Survey: Salaries in the mobile industry are well above market average

June 2, 2017 June 2, 2017

Mobile marketing agency Zorka.Mobi has just released the results of a research about salary levels in the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian mobile industries. More than 400 people participated in the survey — from designers to engineers and developers, to media buyers, to top managers and other professionals. Here are the key findings: The average salary …

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Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?

April 21, 2017 April 21, 2017

According to UNESCO, 29% of women worldwide are in science research, compared with 41% in Russia. In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia. Russian girls view science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) far more positively, with their interest starting earlier and lasting longer, says Julian Lambertin, …

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Russian entrepreneur success story: Job Today gets $35 million in media-for-equity from major media investors

March 14, 2017 March 14, 2017

Three media investors — Astremedia (Spain), German Media Pool VC and RTL Germany — have inked a media-for-equity deal worth $35 million with Job Today, reports TechCrunch. Launched in 2015 by two Russian entrepreneurs, Eugene Mizin and Polina Montano, Job Today has developed a job finder app which currently operates in four cities of Spain and the UK. The startup, which claims to …

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