Education & HR

Russian edtech on the rise: Kodland raises $1.5 million to expand internationally

January 11, 2022

Illustrating the current traction of Russian edtech startups, online programming school Kodland has raised $1.5 million in its first round of financing. The money was brought in by Russian venture capitalist Alexander Nevinsky (a partner at I2BF) and an unnamed “European fund,” as reported by VC.RU.  The startup will use the fresh funding to test product …

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

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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‘Geek Teachers’ innovate Russian classrooms

November 16, 2020

Maria Plotkina and Arina Nuriahmetova were stressed young computer science teachers battling an entrenched system of learning when they decided to set up Geek Teachers to equip school teachers across Russia with the IT skills to bring the latest education technologies to the classroom. Four years later, their platform, which has over 13,000 online followers, …

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Yandex offers Russian and US students “a starter pack to break into tech”

September 9, 2020

Yandex, the Russian Internet giant, is developing an international education platform to train data analysts, data scientists, web developers and other IT specialists. Dubbed ‘Practicum,’ the platform is touted as a “practice-oriented, job-landing bootcamp,” starting with a free 20-hour intro course. After initial roll out in Russia last year, Practicum was made available in English, targeting the US market, …

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

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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Russian-born startup helps students make their international education dreams come true

December 28, 2020

Can you study in a top US, Chinese or European university when you have no money and lack family support? The answer is yes, as demonstrated by StudyFree, an online service that helps applicants increase their chances to get a scholarship and be admitted to educational institutions. Now claiming 23,000 users across the world, StudyFree …

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Yandex launches covid home testing and online school

November 12, 2020

Like other Russian majors, Yandex is demonstrating its commitment to combat Covid-19 through a series of initiatives. The latest one is Yandex.School, a free online education platform which the search giant created “in record time” using its existing educational programs. Launched on March 31, Yandex.School helps teachers, students and parents “retain a sense of normalcy …

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Russian tech majors switch to home working amid mounting coronavirus fears

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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From Finland to Japan, Russian startup makes robotics easier to teach in schools

November 12, 2020

School teachers from the Karelia region (Finland) and the St. Petersburg region (Russia) will soon be able to integrate Industry 4.0 topics – from robotics, to 3D printing, to Internet-of-Things, to programming – to their programs.  This program is a joint effort of Lappeenranta and Lahti University of Technology (LUT University), St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), the Lappeenranta city administration, with …

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Mail.Ru and Yandex bet on online platforms to massively train IT specialists

December 24, 2019

Mail.Ru Group now owns 60.3% of Skillbox, an e-learning platform for digital and IT specialties, Vedomosti reported yesterday, citing the official company register and exchanges with company representatives. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. In February, the LSE-listed Russian Internet giant had acquired a 3.6% stake for an undisclosed amount as part of …

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