Regions & cities

Skolkovo cements ties with China on Putin’s fast track

June 7, 2012

Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub now nearing completion near Moscow, is considering opening a rep office in China, reports Seda Pumpyanskaya, Skolkovo’s Vice-president for International Relations and Communications and a participant in the most recent round of talks between the parties. According to the Skolkovo envoy, the potential partners have made “substantial headway in charting …

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From ‘Kalinka’ to high tech startups, two conferences showed Russia’s changing face

June 4, 2012

Two important international tech events took place on May 28 and 29 in Moscow, nearly simultaneously and almost in the same location, a former chocolate factory in center town. The first was the legendary DLD Conference, making its Moscow debut, and the second event was an international startup and investor conference named “42.” The events …

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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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IT technopark opens in Chelyabinsk

May 24, 2012

In a bid to participate in the development of a modern innovation infrastructure across the country, the authorities in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region have just announced the opening of a technopark dedicated to information technologies. The technopark, named Novator, is located in Chelyabinsk, a city of 1.1 million inhabitants just to the east of the Ural …

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Siberian local review service Flamp.ru now serves Moscow

May 21, 2012

Flamp.ru, a consumer review website that appeared one year ago in the Siberian cities Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, followed by a launch in Ekaterinburg in the Urals, announced last week it now covers the Russian capital. Not only do Flamp.ru users review local businesses like cafés, museums and theaters, they can also post comments about banks, …

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ABBYY and IBM support computational linguistics in Russian universities

May 18, 2012

The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have each announced the opening of a program in computational linguistics. The two programs were developed in close cooperation with ABBYY and IBM, according to ABBYY, a leading Russia-based international supplier of linguistic and translation software and services …

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Skolkovo to develop cooperation with China and Japan

May 5, 2012

Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, is seeking to extend its cooperation with China. Opportunities for cooperation were discussed last week at the Sino-Russian Trade and Investment Forum by China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang and Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation. Various leading Russian and Chinese businessmen were also in attendence …

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Federal Antimonopoly Service initiates proceedings relating to SMS spam

April 30, 2012

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation for the City of Moscow has initiated proceedings against the furniture company Shatura for distributing advertisements via SMS without users’ consent (SMS spam). During the check, the Antimonopoly Service established that Shatura had violated the article of the Federal Law on Advertising which forbids the distribution of …

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Why European business angels come to Russia’s regions

April 28, 2012

I recall discussing last month some innovation rankings and a number of top-ranked regions of Russia highlighted by RBC daily and its Russian official partners. Siberia was worth praising; it had shown such a terrific innovation spurt. Such national rankings are useful and interesting. But there are also other indicators for an innovation economy, and …

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Bauman University and IBM team up for research on “Smarter City”

April 25, 2012

The Bauman university, a leading Russian technical university, and IBM have opened “Smarter City,” a scientific and educational center based on the latest approaches to urban infrastructure management. The center will conduct R&D in the fields of image, audio and video recognition, cloud calculations and analytical software, in particular

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