Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2013 – The VII International Forum “From Science to Business” will take place on May 15-17 2013 in St. Petersburg. Traditionally the Forum gathers representatives of universities, government, business, and institutes of development. This year’s edition is dedicated to the globalization of innovations. The organizers believe that the expansion of …
As of early 2013, approximately 50.1 million people in Russia aged 18 and older used the Internet on a daily basis, or 43% of the corresponding population, an 11.6% increase over the previous year, according to the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), a leading Russian polling institute. The number of monthly unique users reached 64.4 million, FOM also …
More than 50 million Russian adults use the Internet daily Read More
This Monday, a group of select innovation experts and mentors is starting a six-week-long road show through 15 Russian cities – from Rostov-upon-Don, to Astrakhan, to Tomsk, to Vladivostok in the Far East – aiming to meet thousands of local startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and representatives of technoparks. In each city, the program consists of presentations, …
Government-sponsored startup tour to bring innovation expertise to 15 Russian cities Read More
Russia’s first ever charity social network launched earlier this month to enable handicapped children in Siberia’s Tomsk region to publish blogs and charities across the world to donate online for the kids’ treatment, the five-year-old regional Ordinary Miracle charity fund for children announced. Elena Makarova, the fund’s president, said at a press conference at RIA …
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The Magadan region, also known as Kolyma – a name which evokes Stalin-era Gulag camps for an older generation of Russians – is now looking at a future marked by new levels of innovation activity. In this region of the Russian Far East, 6,000 km from Moscow, verifiable innovation activity grew 11% last year to …
The Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia announced last week that a team of students and postgraduates designated WAFT (for We Are From TPU) has developed a project enabling drug-free memory regeneration. The Total Recall project offers a software-enabled system that helps people with amnesia regain their memory by analyzing the movement pattern of their …
HUBFORUM – “La Conférence Luxe & Digital,” the first business event dedicated to digital luxury, lifestyle, and fashion, will hold its second Moscow edition on April 2, 2013, on the final day of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. The conference, which will gather leading fashion, luxury and digital marketing professionals from Europe and the USA, will explore …
The Luxury, Fashion, Lifestyle & Digital Business Conference is coming back to Moscow Read More
Last week the Moscow Seed Fund, Moscow City’s venture investment arm, announced an investment of an undisclosed amount in Alytics, a startup developing contextual ad solutions “to optimize conversion rates and save on advertising budgets.” Igor Ryabenkiy, one of the twelve partnering investors that the municipal fund picked up last year, also took part in the …
Moscow Seed Fund and angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy back contextual ad solution provider Read More
A state-supported venture fund in St. Petersburg (“The St. Petersburg regional venture fund for investment in small businesses in the scientific and technical sphere,” in Russian officialese) has announced an investment of an undisclosed amount in Breeze Technology, a startup developing innovative payment methods for public transportation. Breeze Technology has provided St. Petersburg and Moscow …
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After being exposed recently to public criticism stemming from the Russian government – including President Putin himself – the Skolkovo Foundation is now targeted by an inquiry of the Investigative Committee of Russia’s Prosecutor Office. The investigation was triggered by a recent report by Russia’s Accounts Chamber revealing several cases of questionable financial practices by …
Top Skolkovo executives threatened by criminal investigation Read More
A few weeks after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lambasted the quality of mobile communications in Moscow, VTB Capital, the investment arm of the Russian financial group VTB, has published a report on the issue. According to the research, Megafon comes in the lead for the quality of 3G services in the capital, with an average …
Moscow 3G networks not good enough for Medvedev, but better than London’s Read More
According to Russian law, the LTE equipment developed and manufactured jointly by Nokia Siemens Network and Micran in Tomsk, Siberia, is not considered “Russian-made.” This legal definition has prevented Vainakh Telecom, a telecom operator in the Republic of Chechnya, in Russia’s Northern Caucasus area, from launching its new 4G network because the network has been built using …
No legal green light for Russian use of Russian-made Nokia Siemens telecom equipment Read More
