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Kendrick White on Russia’s modernization: “We cannot wait another twenty years”

November 20, 2012

During a US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission meeting held on October 30, foreign and Russian experts debated approaches that the participants thought would be beneficial for Russia to choose in its drive for innovation. Marchmont CEO Kendrick White took part as an American expert. He shares his impressions and his ideas on how to improve what seems …

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Russia needs foreign IT specialists, minister says

October 23, 2012

Since the national educational system is not providing Russia’s IT industry with enough qualified IT workers, these cadres must be attracted from abroad, said Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media, in a forum on international investment held in Moscow last week. “The IT industry, indeed, is experiencing an acute shortage of qualified …

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Internet still ‘partly free’ in Russia but tighter controls seen ahead, Freedom House reports

September 27, 2012

Freedom House, a US-based NGO monitoring the progress or restriction of human freedoms as it perceives them around the globe, has published its most recent Freedom on the Net 2012 report, the third in its series. This edition assesses Internet and digital media in 47 countries over a period spanning January 2011 and May 2012. …

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Russia’s intelligence service seeks to influence social media

September 18, 2012

In the first two months of this year, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) commissioned three closed tenders worth more than 30 million rubles, approximately $1 million, in total, with the aim of  creating systems for “mass distribution of information messages through social networks with the purpose of forming public opinion.” One of the systems, …

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Government confirms full financing for Skolkovo

August 30, 2012

Dismissing rumors that state financing for Skolkovo might be reduced, the Russian Ministry of Finances confirmed earlier this week that the federal government’s total funding for the project will remain unchanged at 85 billion rubles (approximately $2.7 billion) between 2010 and 2015. This confirmation suggests that the Skolkovo project, which consists of building a world-class …

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New technopark empowers Tatarstan startups “to conquer the world”

August 27, 2012

IT-Park, the technopark launched in 2009 in Tartartan’s capital city of Kazan, has opened a new 23,000 sq. meter branch in Naberezhnye Chelny, the second largest city in this autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of Tatarstan, and Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Media, attended the opening …

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Association of “smart cities” to be formed in Russia

March 2, 2017

An association of “smart cities” will be formed in Russia by the end of 2012, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported last week, citing Peter Schipper, the Director of the Department of Engineering and Transport Infrastructure of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion near Moscow. According to Schipper, the term ‘smart city’ implies a complex …

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Robotics key to Russia’s economic and military modernization

July 9, 2012

The symbiotic relationship between the on-line and the off-line worlds is nowhere more apparent than in the field of robotics. For, although it was advances in semiconductor physics and materials science starting in the 1970’s that enabled the development of microelectronic devices that powered computers, it was actually advances in manufacturing efficiencies, primarily the deployment …

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Regional rankings confirm Tatarstan’s innovation momentum; new territories emerge on Russia’s high tech map

June 25, 2012

Russia’s National Association for Innovation and IT Development (NAIRIT) has put together a Regional Innovation Ranking for 2011. The study was aimed at highlighting the Russian regions showing the most initiative in promoting applied science and innovation. According to NAIRIT, for the second year running Moscow ranked as the undisputed number one in 2011 among …

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Single innovation database to be set up in Russia

June 22, 2012

Three state-owned financial organizations – the Russian Venture Company (RVC), Vnesheconombank (VEB) and the Fund of Infrastructure and Educational Programs of Rusnano – have joined with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in signing a memorandum of understanding to create an online database for innovative projects across the country, the RIA Novosti agency …

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The Russian microelectronics industry and national security

May 25, 2012

It is often forgotten, in today’s mobile, networked, and information-driven business climate, that many of the world’s most prominent “Silicon Valleys” – Hsin-chu, Taiwan; Ang Mo Kio, Singapore; “Silicon Saxony,” Germany; and even the original American Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area of California – were built largely or entirely on the semiconductor, or microelectronics, …

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Report: “Google, the US Yandex”

April 20, 2012

In association with East-West Digital News, faberNovel, a French innovation consulting firm with offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow, has just released an eye-opening presentation on the Russian Internet and innovation system. The report features the latest data on the Russian market and its key players, of course, but then goes further, providing useful …

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