Sustainable Development & Resilience

From education to social and environmental responsibility: How Yandex pushed its sustainability agenda in 2021

July 20, 2022

Yandex publishes today its annual Sustainability Progress Report covering the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance results in 2021 and outlining key accomplishments within each of the sustainability priority areas. Yandex presented its full sustainability agenda in 2020. A number of streams, for example, cybersecurity, the quality of services and employee wellbeing, are closely aligned …

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Russian startup raises millions to revolutionize garbage collection

March 19, 2022

East-West Digital News is happy to bring to its readers this business-as-usual, non war-related story. As industry publication RB.RU just reported, a Russian garbage recycling technology startup called Ubirator raised 170 million rubles (some $2.25 million at the pre-war exchange rate).  Founded in 2018 by Nikita Nikishkin and Alexey Khatskevich, two MIPT (PhysTech) graduates, Ubirator …

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X5 Group teams up with Plug and Play to bring more sustainability to Russian retail

February 16, 2022

X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer listed on the Moscow and London stock exchanges, is launching an international joint program with Plug and Play to scout for innovative approaches to sustainable development. The program will focus on reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions as well as sustainable packaging. It will start in the …

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Decarbonization: Russian scientists bet on AI while government sets meagre country goals

February 17, 2022

Sber, Russia’s state-controlled financial and digital giant (previously known as Sberbank), and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), intend to develop software program to “evaluate the carbon balance drawing on remote sensing of the Earth.” The program aims to “facilitate the comprehensive analysis [which is] required [to make] effective decarbonization decisions and design …

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Skolkovo to host new tech park for “greener technologies, production processes and supply chains”

December 13, 2021

Last week, on the sidelines of the Open Innovations international forum, Skolkovo Foundation and Helyx Technologies inked a cooperation agreement to implement a “green tech park.” The initiative builds on the GreenTech Startup Booster, launched last year, which is now touted as “the largest international program for the development and implementation of technological projects in the field of ecology.” The new …

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New ESG Innovation Index praises Moscow city’s “tremendously effective public transport” and numerous edtech entrepreneurs

November 23, 2021

Moscow ranks second among Europe’s largest cities in the ‘Future City ESG Innovation Index,’ put together by Munich-based think tank DEEP Ecosystems.  This new index aims to assess “the potential of innovation hubs to support sustainable innovation in the ESG fields.” Its four sub-indexes, eight compound metrics and 29 individual indicators cover the “Community of ESG Entrepreneurs;” their …

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Sber aims to make elderly people digitally literate

October 7, 2021

Last week Sber, the state-controlled financial and digital giant, announced the launch of a Digital Skills School, aiming to teach elderly people to use digital services in everyday life. The financial and digital giant defines its initiative as “an educational and awareness-raising project,” touting its “simple language and accessible formats.” Users can learn how to buy medications …

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St. Petersburg startup makes handbags, fashion accessories and items of home decor from 99% repurposed plastic

August 19, 2021

Three enthusiasts and an old garage is all it took to make a plastic-processing machine and then launch 99recycle, a brand that is now renowned across St. Petersburg for its handbags, fashion accessories and items of home decor made from processed plastic and textiles. The story of how it happened told by the brand’s co-founder Anton Rykachevsky …

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Segezha Group: How a Russian forestry major addresses digitalization and sustainability challenges

March 29, 2024

Segezha Group, a major Russian producer of fiber-based packaging and forestry products, is a global leader in sack paper (#2), paper sacks (#2) and birch plywood (#5). Unlike most of its industry peers, the group is fully vertically integrated and controls its own forests. Operating across several countries, it holds long-term (typically 49 years) leases …

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NorNickel adopts blockchain for a more responsible supply chain management

February 3, 2021

As more and more global companies adopt corporate blockchain solutions, Norilsk Nickel (NorNickel), the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, has announced it is joining the Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network (RSBN), a network aimed at supporting responsible sourcing and production practices from mine to market. According to NorNickel, the move …

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Oleg Dubnov of Skolkovo Energy Cluster: “Green is not contradictory to business — and technology is key to this”

December 24, 2020

After holding top positions across the Russian energy industry for more than a decade, Oleg Dubnov has been heading Skolkovo’s energy cluster since 2017. He shared with East-West Digital News fresh insights about the emergence of green technologies in Russia, the related industrial challenges and the international potential of Russian startups in this field. So …

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Rostelecom to take control of waste management solution provider for $16.7 million

November 20, 2020

Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, is in the process of acquiring a 51% stake in Bolshaya Troika (Big 3), a provider of waste processing automation solutions. The transaction, which amounts to 1.275 billion rubles ($16.7 billion at the current exchange rate), will be completed in the first half of 2021 “after successful launch of a …

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