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Sweeping reform to liquidate Bortnik Fund, Rusnano, RVC and Skolkovo as autonomous organizations

According to media reports and official communications, the Russian government adopted a reform of the country’s sprawling network of 40 development institutions, including key players of the innovation ecosystem.  This long-awaited reform aims to eliminate inefficiencies by consolidating like organisations and ensuring that each institution works specifically towards achieving Russia’s national development goals. The reform includes three components: …

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Russian government launches Covid contact-tracing app

As announced previously, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has launched an application called ‘Gosuslugi. Covid Tracker’ to track contacts with coronavirus patients all around Russia. Users diagnosed with COVID-19 must independently report this anonymously through the application. In turn, users with whom this person came in close contact in the last …

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Russian government approves $2.6 billion 5G deployment plan until 2024

Last week a government commission “on digital development, the use of information technologies for improving the quality of life and the conditions of doing business” approved a 5G deployment roadmap for Russia. “The transition to 5G technologies is one of the priorities to digitalize the Russian economy, since is provides the ground for quality growth …

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Russian government prepares to launch coronavirus contact-tracing app

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry is finishing work on a new mobile app designed to combat the spread of COVID-19. Its working name is ‘Stopcoronavirus. My contacts.’ The contact-tracing app, which relies on technologies developed by Apple and Google, is designed to track nearby mobile devices and warn the user if they have been within 10 …

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From energy policies, to education, to crime investigation, Russian government bets on AI to achieve its digital transformation

The Russian government has plans to use of artificial intelligence increasingly in the framework of its digital transformation.   On November 12, the heads of digital transformation of seven federal ministries and agencies — covering energy, industry and trade, culture, education and science, cadastre, agriculture, and taxes — gathered in a “strategic session on artificial …

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Russia sharpens knives against cybercrime

A center for combating cybercrimes, telephone spam and phishing will be created in Russia as part of a government program for the digital economy, the TASS news agency reported earlier this week, citing Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maksut Shadayev. In an attempt to exclude even the smallest external risks of disruption, the ministry …

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Moscow city plans to use mobile technology to manage and monitor human traffic flows

In its efforts to manage and monitor the flow of human beings through the city, Moscow officials have experimented with mobile apps, QR codes, and telephone hotlines. Many of these systems have confused the elderly, overwhelmed operators, and frustrated virtually everyone. According to a new public contract reported in the Russian news media, the capital …

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Moscow city authorities mandate night partygoers to register with QR codes or SMS

Moscow partygoers will be required to register their phone numbers before they can enter bars, nightclubs and other late-night establishments, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced Thursday as the city sees a renewed rise in coronavirus cases.  Starting Oct. 19, all visitors of establishments operating between midnight and 6 a.m. will be required to scan a QR code or …

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Russia to launch self-driving tram and vessel experiments

Several ministries of the Russian Federation, including The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Economic Development, as well as the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) supported the draft government decree on conducting an experiment on the operation of self-driving vessels. According to the …

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Russia and Gulf countries intensify cooperation in high tech

A series of news in the past few days came to underline the intensifying relationship between Russia and Gulf countries in the fields of technologies and investment. Mubadala eyes Russian technologies Thus last week Sberbank, the state-controlled Russian financial and tech giant (now known as Sber), announced a “strategic agreement” with Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign …

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Russian government wants to ban latest encryption technologies

Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media wants to ban websites from using the latest encryption technologies, to make it easier for Russia’s Internet and telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block access to Russian Internet resources containing prohibited content. Experts point out that a number of large Internet companies, including the Russian Internet giant …

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Pilot blockchain system ensures integrity of crucial steps of the voting process – but authorities keep the last word

During three days, from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September, voters from 83 Russian regions are being called to elect members of local parliaments and, in certain cases, regional governors as well as federal-level deputies. More than 9,000 local campaigns took place in what observers see as a key test for the country’s pro-Putin ruling …

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