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Rostelecom and Tsentralnyi Telegraf to launch MVNOs in the Moscow region

March 22, 2012

Tsentralnyi Telegraf will launch a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) next summer, the company’s commercial director Kirill Karasev announced yesterday at an industry conference. Established in 1852 as Moscow’s very first telegraph station, today Tsentralnyi Telegraf is a provider of ISP, IPTV, VPN, and other telecommunication services in Moscow and its surroundings. The new MVNO …

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Rostelecom building giant data center in Moscow to run government cloud platform

March 21, 2012

Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, has launched the construction of a mega data center, located on the premises of the Serp i Molot factory in Moscow. The center’s storage capacity has not been disclosed, but the server rooms will occupy some 10 thousand square meters – twice as much as Sberbank’s existing mega data …

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Russia and Belarus shake hands on joint business accelerator and technopark

March 16, 2012

In a bid to step up innovation cooperation between Russia and neighboring Belarus, two government delegations met in Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday to agree on the establishment of a Russian-Belarusian Business Accelerator and to further the finalization of a prospective inter-state technopark.

Mine fleet management solution provider Vist Group eyes IPO

March 13, 2012

Vist Group, a major, twenty-year-old Russian developer of turn-key IT solutions for mine fleet and railroad management systems, is considering seeking capital market opportunities, according to Reuters. A resident of Skolkovo, the government-sponsored technology hub outside Moscow, Vist could thus become the first Skolkovo resident to orchestrate an IPO. Vist has declined to make any …

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Made-in-Skolkovo products get first international clients

March 9, 2012

The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.

From St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, 180,000 webcams monitored Russia’s presidential election

March 5, 2012

In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …

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MTS and Rostelecom to share network infrastructure

February 23, 2012

MTS, a major Russian mobile operator, and Rostelecom, the national telecom operator, have agreed to share part of their network infrastructure, including towers (antenna masts) and optical fiber cables, reported Russian business daily Vedomosti. Rostelecom has the largest network infrastructure in Russia, extending about 500,000 km, or 310,685 miles, covering even remote and underdeveloped territories …

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Transtelecom acquires regional Internet provider Electro-Com

February 23, 2012

Transtelecom, or TTK, has purchased 100% of the shares of Electro-Com, an Internet provider working under the Spark brand, Telecom Daily reported earlier this week. The deal will reinforce TTK’s positions in the broadband Internet access markets of Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan, Taganrog, Volgodonsk, and Kaluga. It will also introduce TTK to the Tula, Krasnodar, Bryansk and …

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Poland’s InPost and Russia’s Qiwi launch postbox network for parcel delivery

February 20, 2012

InPost, a Polish operator of postboxes for parcel delivery, Qiwi, the famous Russian payment operator, and iTech Capital, a Russian venture fund, are deploying a network of self-pickup points to deliver parcels from distance selling and e-commerce companies. The network, named Qiwi Post, started operating in early February with 15 locations in Moscow, nearby malls, …

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W3C opens representative office in Russia

February 16, 2012

W3C, the international consortium developing web standards, announced today the launch of its Russia Office in Moscow. The office is hosted by the Higher School of Economics (HSE), which will help W3C strengthen ties to both industry and research in Russia and abroad.

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