All Moscow buses, trolleybuses and trams will be equipped with free wireless Internet connection by the end of this year, news website M24.ru reported Wednesday, citing the city’s transportation authority Mosgortrans. Free Wi-Fi is currently available on 4,000 buses, trams and trolleybuses around the city. “The new service is gaining popularity among passengers. More than …
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The fourth edition of Startup Village, the biggest startup conference in Russia and neighboring countries, will be held in Skolkovo on the outskirts of Moscow on June 2-3, in partnership with East-West Digital News. Featured in the agenda will be a range of lectures, workshops and discussion boards. Prominent figures of the Russian and international innovation …
In late April Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, signed a cooperation agreement with Algeria’s National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Technoparks (ANPT). This partnership came as one of the results of a visit to Moscow by the Algerian prime minister and the ANPT’s director Abdelhakim Bensaoula. As reported …
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Policymakers, doctors and scientists from both the Netherlands and Russia gathered in Moscow last month under the auspices of the Russia-Netherlands bilateral health working group to exchange ideas and share expertise about e-health solutions. “In the Netherlands, the healthcare sector is aware of the necessity to join forces for smart solutions for sustainable healthcare. This can …
How e-health could revolutionize Russian healthcare: the Netherlands shares its experience Read More
Chelyabinsk, a city of 1.1 million inhabitants just to the east of the Ural mountains, has launched a new “IT Park” to support local tech projects, as reported by RVC last month. Officially launched last month, this 2,200-sq. m. technopark is privately owned, but has received support from the local authorities and the federal government. …
From May 15 to 21 Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, approximately 800 km east of Moscow, will host its second ‘OIC Youth Entrepreneurship Forum.’ The event will attract young entrepreneurs from member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation — of which Russia is an Observer state. The organizers aim to “identify and …
Famous for weapons production and cakes, Tula – a city 180 kilometers south from Moscow – is also home to tech startups. At first glance, this is a typical sleepy Russian provincial capital, far from the world of modern high-tech. Time flows slowly here. The old merchant mansions and Soviet apartment buildings seem to keep the two million residents in a state …
Uber is teaming up with Russia’s Interior Ministry to help find missing children. As part of the campaign, the portraits of missing children will be painted on the sides of some of the cars in Uber’s Moscow fleet. The campaign launched on Monday, April 18. Uber encourages Muscovites to photograph its cars that bear the …
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Earlier this week a delegation from Hong Kong visited Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, to exchange experience amid an ongoing cooperation program. As reported by the Skolkovo foundation, the delegation was led by Professor KC Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong, who outlined how the …
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The Turkish division of Vodafone is now providing its customers with a cloud storage offer using a platform created by Russia’s ASD Tehnologies. Christened ‘Güvenli Depo’ (Safe Storage), this cloud service was launched earlier this month together with a 4.5G network across Turkey. Cloudike, the solution developed by ASD Technologies, “enables mobile carriers and device OEMs to extend their …
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Located twenty miles from Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, which literally means ‘academic town,’ was established in 1957. It quickly became a major Soviet scientific hub, with talented researchers settling there from all the country. After the fall of communism, however, salaries and funding collapsed. But Akademgorodok managed to attract a number of foreign companies including IBM, Intel and Schlumberger, …
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Illustrating the growing interest of domestic and international corporations in tech innovation, AccorHotels will hold a hackathon in Moscow on April 23-24. To organize the event, the global hospitality group has teamed up with international startup accelerator NUMA Moscow and Microsoft. Participants will work in cross-functional teams of minimum three: one developer, one designer and one entrepreneur. …
