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Prime Minister Medvedev: No one expected such an influence of social networks on politics

November 1, 2013

At a meeting yesterday with young innovators, the head of government was asked whether technological solutions or social activity most change the world. Medvedev responded that both are changing the world equally. “Even ten years ago no one expected, and this is obvious, that social networks would have such an influence on political developments. At …

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Four regions secure $60 million technopark funding up to 2014

October 30, 2013

The Communications’ Ministry has announced that more than $60 million of federal money will be given to four Russian regions to fund the development of their technoparks up to the end of 2014. Moscow is to receive $10 million, while Sverdlovsk Oblast, which has Yekaterinburg as its capital, will get $22 million. Penza Oblast, in …

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Online video players form industry association

October 3, 2013

Just two months after strict anti-piracy legislation came into force, Russia’s largest online video services have formed the Internet Video Association in order to help shield the market against pirated video content. The union defines itself as “a nonprofit organization that assists in the proper application of the anti-piracy law while avoiding discrimination and repression,” according to its chairman Oleg Rumyantsev, …

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Government considers protecting “strategic” IT companies from foreign acquisition

October 1, 2013

One of the major risks facing the Russian industry IT is a takeover of domestic companies by Western giants, stated a yet unpublished development strategy plan for the industry, as reported by the business daily Vedomosti. To minimize this risk, the Ministry of Communications, which produced the document, proposes to include “some” IT companies in …

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Kremlin meets with Internet industry leaders to discuss self-regulation

September 10, 2013

Last Friday, the First Deputy Director of the Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, met with representatives of Russian media and Internet companies. Among the participants were top managers of leading Internet and media companies operating in Russia, including Arkady Volozh, the CEO of search engine giant Yandex, Maëlle Gavet, CEO of major e-commerce site Ozon.ru, and …

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Russian Customs Service may double the number of customs officers to better deal with mail from abroad

August 17, 2013

The Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia may add between 300 and 500 new employees before the end of the year to help deal with the growing number of parcels sent to Russia from abroad. The Ministry of Communications, also charged with reforming the inefficient Russian Post, requested this staff expansion for the Customs service …

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Skolkovo secures $4 billion state funding until 2020

November 19, 2014

The Skolkovo Foundation, which manages Russia’s largest state-sponsored innovation hub under construction outside Moscow, will receive another 135.6 billion ruble (about $4.1 billion) shot in the arm from government coffers between now and 2020. The decision, which might signal the technopark’s return to political favor, was made last week at a Russian government meeting presided by Prime …

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Russian bank and regional authorities team up to support Siberian innovators

August 8, 2013

Innovative entrepreneurs in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region can now receive financial support from MSB, a new venture fund opened by Promsvyazbank, a major Russian bank, according to the Krasnoyarsk regional authorities. The region and the bank reached an agreement on project funding in late July during the TIM Biryusa interregional educational forum for innovative youth held …

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Opposition leader Alexey Navalny gets unprecedented support from innovation entrepreneurs

August 7, 2013

Alexey Navalny, a prominent Russian anti-corruption blogger, protest leader, and now a self-styled ‘prisoner of conscience,’ has received support from a group of 38 Russian digital industry entrepreneurs in the race for Moscow’s mayoral office. Navalny, 37, undertakes his campaign as a convict and thus creates political uncertainty, an element absent in recent Russian elections.

Belgorod region teams up with federal fund to support local innovation

July 31, 2013

The government of the Belgorod region in Central Russia is ready to co-fund the 12 best technology projects developed by scientists from Belgorod State University and Belgorod Shukhov State Technical University, the region’s two leading higher education centers, regional portal Belru.rf reported earlier this month. In addition to about $6,600 from regional coffers, the Russian Fund for …

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Government launches $200 million seed fund to create “nationwide industry of new online projects”

June 14, 2018

Earlier this week the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), a government-supported initiative, announced that it started receiving its first applications from individual entrepreneurs from all over Russia. The fund has received no less than 6 billion rubles (approximately $200 million) from state corporations. This huge amount is to be invested in …

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Russian army starts a ‘big hunt’ for computer programmers

July 15, 2013

“We are starting a ‘big hunt’ for computer programmers,” the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said in a sensational remark at a recent meeting with the rectors of Russia’s leading universities. The rectors felt relief though, as Shoigu explained that the term ‘hunt’ was meant in a good way.

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