The Russian Ministry of Economic Development unveiled last week an online map of the country’s investment projects, proposals and sites as well as special economic, socio-economic indicators, logistical infrastructure and educational centers.
Ten licenses for GSM in 1800 MHz standard are to be offered in Kamchatka, the Koryak District, the Chukotka Autonomous District and the Sakhalin Region. Applications for participation have been filled out by seven companies, including leading mobile operators VimpelCom and MegaFon, as well as New Telephone Company (NTC), Tele2 (from Siberia and Chelyabinsk, Ural) …
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Norilsk Telecom (NT), one of the largest fixed-line and broadband operators in the Krasnoyarsk region, is up for sale again. The company’s only shareholder, investment bank KIT Finance, hopes to sell the asset before the year’s end. A few potential buyers have emerged.
Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation, annouced yesterday to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the first office building of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, would be completed before the end of the year. The project’s administrative center will move to the Skolkovo territory in November, Vekselberg said.
South Telecommunications Company (STC) has announced plans to invest $21.2 million in network development in Stavropol region in 2011, up 26.5% on 2010.
Mobile operator MTS has announced plans to invest $3.4 million in network development in the Megino-Kangalassky Ulus in the Republic of Yakutia in 2011.
In today’s Russia, there’s a growing critical mass of different individual catalysts that are themselves initiating new innovation-stimulating projects. Many of these are emanating from Moscow out to the regions. Look at the project GreenField, look at StartUp Point or Start in Garage. There’s a lot of new types of people that are emerging, who …
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The Skolkovo Innovation Prize contest received 2,318 submissions from a total of 10,681 participants. The contest, conducted in partnership with Cisco, is designed to attract talented inventors to Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow.
The South Telecommunications Company (STC) has announced plans to build a $34-million fiber-optic communication line along the Black Sea shore in Russia.
Cisco and the Skolkovo Foundation today unveiled further details of joint efforts under the Skolkovo Project plans to develop a “Virtual Skolkovo”. Based on the proposal from the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Virtual Skolkovo will be a business innovation ecosystem that pushes the advantages of traditional clustering beyond physical boundaries into the virtual …
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Igor Shchegolev, the Russian minister of Communications and Mass Media, announced that future tenders for mobile frequencies will include stipulations obligating operators to deploy their networks in regions with low population density.
The Bashkir subsidiary of MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, has agreed with the Bashkir government to invest over 2 billion rubles ($67 million) in developing its network in Bashkortostan between now and the end of 2012.
