Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Kuleshov was presented with the order of merit at Skoltech on Wednesday evening by Marie-Hélène Bérard, president of a French investment bank and a former advisor to …
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had notified Telegram CEO Pavel Durov that his firm was in violation of the law for not sharing with the authorities the encryption keys it uses to protect its users’ communications. Adopted in 2016, this legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) requires messenger apps and other “organizers of information distribution” …
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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared victory over opposition leader Alexei Navalny on social media and ‘real life’ on Monday, following a social media post comparing the politicians’ following on social media. The caption of an Instagram post shared by Navalny, which compares Medvedev’s 2.8 million Instagram followers to Navalny’s 236,000, reads “the ruling party is winning decisively …
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Just three months after demonstrating an unexpected interest in the Ethereum technology — in which he sees a potential instrument for tech modernization, — Vladimir Putin has shared with Russian students his far-reaching views on artificial intelligence (AI). In a 45-minute “open lesson” about science on Friday, the Russian president told Russian students that “whoever becomes the …
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Aspiring female entrepreneur Olga Uskova made her dream come true last week with the launch of her first self-driving harvester. The machine was successfully tested in the Rostov Region in the south of Russia. As a child in the Soviet era, entrepreneur Olga Uskova was inspired by a film that showed a futuristic tractor working …
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In this op-ed, Dmitry Schuetzle, Managing Partner at VIY Management (VIYM), shares his vision of the current digital revolution and its implications in the field of private equity. “The potential for digitalization is increasingly one of the most important investment criteria that we look at when assessing potential investments,” he writes, providing examples from his firm’s …
Inspired by recent photos from Vladimir Putin’s fishing trip to Siberia — during which the 64-year-old president undressed — Pavel Durov has published a shirtless photograph of himself on Instagram in response. “My Instagram had to seriously step up the game to keep up with the increased competition from Mr. Putin’s shirtless photos. If you’re Russian, you have to join #PutinShirtlessChallenge (or face oblivion). Two rules from Putin — no photoshop, no pumping. Otherwise you’re not …
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For most of the year, the typical sounds heard at the Skolkovo innovation city are those of distant hammering, as construction work on futuristic new buildings continues, or the whirring of a drone, as tech entrepreneurs experiment with their products. But for one day a year, the Skolkovo soundtrack consists of sultry saxophone melodies and …
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The market of goods being sold from Russia to foreign customers is already significant, PayPal Russia’s Head Vladimir Malugin said in a recent interview with The Moscow Times. This market was worth about $2 billion last year, up 32% from 2015, according to a research conducted jointly by PayPal and the Data Insight agency. Digital goods …
A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion for people involved in crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking. Alexander Vinnik was arrested in a small beachside village in northern Greece on Tuesday, according to local …
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Artsy, a US startup whose platform allows people to learn about visual art and explore buy or sell opportunities, has just raised $50 million in equity funding at a $225 million pre-money valuation, TechCrunch and Pitchbook reported yesterday. In the long list of investors is Darya (Dasha) Zhukova, the wife of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and a figure …
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Early on July 9 Anton Nossik, 51, passed away. He was with friends at a dacha when he suffered a sudden heart attack. One of the founders of the Russian Internet, Nossik founded several large news sites, including Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru. “It was Nossik who came up with [a vision for] Russian online media, and …
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