The Communications’ Ministry has announced that more than $60 million of federal money will be given to four Russian regions to fund the development of their technoparks up to the end of 2014. Moscow is to receive $10 million, while Sverdlovsk Oblast, which has Yekaterinburg as its capital, will get $22 million. Penza Oblast, in …
Four regions secure $60 million technopark funding up to 2014 Read More
The first stage of the new High Technology Technopark is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2013 in Penza, in Russia’s Volga area, a spokesperson for the Penza regional administration told Marchmont News last week. The technopark will reportedly cover an area of 46,000 square meters. Its resident companies will focus on information …
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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.
MTS, the leading Russian mobile operator based on number of subscribers (71.4 million in 2010), won a tender for GSM frequencies in the Penza region, the last remaining region it had yet to penetrate. Until now, MegaFon was alone in operating GSM networks in all of Russia’s 83 regions.
