Innopolis

Fighting brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village

April 30, 2021

Founded in 2015 near Kazan, Tatarstan — some 800 km east from Moscow, — Innopolis provides a glimpse into what technocrats within Putin’s regime hope will be the vision of a future Russia. As the government looks for ways to make the country less dependent on hydrocarbons and to build up the national tech sector, which is …

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Kaspersky purchases additional stake in Russian cloud solution provider

July 22, 2020

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s top cyber security vendors, has increased its stake in New Cloud Technologies (NCT) from 29.5% to 47%, the Kommersant business daily reported. These shares were sold by company founder Andrey Cheglakov. Kaspersky acquired its initial 29.5% stake in May last year. Launched in 2013 — now with offices in Moscow, St. …

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Yandex.Taxi experiments driverless vehicle in Russian tech city, celebrates first 1,000 rides

November 6, 2018

Self-driving taxis are making their first steps in Russia with a new experiment led in Innopolis, a brand new tech city under completion on the outskirts of Kazan, 800 km eastwards from Moscow. In just two months, from Aug. 25 to Oct. 28, 1,000 autonomous rides with passengers were completed, claims Yandex.Taxi, the company behind …

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