Regions & cities

Moscow government adopts multibillion dollar informatization program amid sharp criticism

August 9, 2011

Moscow’s city government formally adopted last week a $11 billion informatization program, following one month of public discussions. Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin underlined the “systemic” approach of the program. He pledged to provide Muscovites with electronic access to “practically all public services, from medical appointments to applications for pensions and subsidies.” In addition, “the regular publication …

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Technopark construction starts in Penza

August 5, 2011

The first stone of a new technopark was laid last week in Penza, a city of over 500,000 inhabitants 625 kilometers southeast of Moscow, by Penza region governor Vasily Bochkarev. The technopark, slated for completion in 2014, will host 70 companies in the information and medical technologies sectors and create over 1,500 jobs.

SmartLabs secures Russian IPTV contract

July 29, 2011

London – SmartLabs, a leading Russian provider of digital TV solutions, has started to deploy a large-scale unified IPTV platform for Rostelecom service providers in all Russian Federation regions. Within the project, all separate IPTV platforms currently running in the regions will be replaced by the unified one based on a number of SmartLab products.

Medvedev praises World of Warcraft’s historical background, calls to create Russian analog

July 26, 2011

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called upon Russian game developers to create “something similar to World of Warcraft” based on Russia’s own national history. “We should pay more attention to computer games based on history. The majority of them are based on pseudo-history, i.e. fantasy style stories,” the president said. “World of Warcraft, besides its destructive …

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Mobile Internet usage in Moscow

July 25, 2011

Key findings: 52% of respondents use mobile Internet several times per day or “almost all the time”, 27% once or twice per day 29% started using mobile Internet less than 1 year ago Mobile Internet is used mostly for information (50%) and communication (45%) purposes. 66% of respondents visit mobile or non mobile sites, 37% check emails, …

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Moscow to be ready for electronic elections by 2016

July 22, 2011

Muscovites will be able to vote in the 2016 elections through the Internet. “We will be technologically ready to conduct electronic elections in 2016 and we will offer such opportunity,” the head of the city’s information technologies department Artem Ermolaev told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

Rostelecom demonstrates cloud service for multifunctional e-government centers

July 20, 2011

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has introduced its cloud solution for the creation of multifunctional e-government service centers for Russian citizens, the company announced in a news release last week. The new service was demonstrated as part of the Innoprom innovations-related exhibition held last week in Ekaterinburg.

Nizhny Novgorod to offer free Wi-Fi on the streets

July 20, 2011

Authorities in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city, have announced plans to launch wireless Internet Wi-Fi free for users on the central streets of the city, the Business Monitoring Agency reports citing Head of city administration Oleg Kondrashov.

Internet penetration in Russia

July 18, 2011

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Rostelecom invests heavily in broadband Internet in Central Russia

July 18, 2011

Two investment proposals filed with the Russian government by national telecom operator Rostelecom have received support from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russian daily Vedomosti reported. The proposals aim to modernize Rostelecom’s networks in Russia’s Central Federal District by 2013 in order to provide all the District’s 7 million households with landline and wireless Internet, telecom …

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