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Russia’s Hermitage experiments with NFTs, “an aesthetic of possession”

September 10, 2021

Russia’s Hermitage Museum, one of the world’s largest art collection, has sold digital copies of several masterpieces in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFT). The auction, in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Binance, took place from August 31 to September 7. A limited series of NFTs were brought out, featuring digital reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna Litta,  Giorgione’s Judith, Vincent van Gogh’s Lilac …

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St. Petersburg startup makes handbags, fashion accessories and items of home decor from 99% repurposed plastic

August 19, 2021

Three enthusiasts and an old garage is all it took to make a plastic-processing machine and then launch 99recycle, a brand that is now renowned across St. Petersburg for its handbags, fashion accessories and items of home decor made from processed plastic and textiles. The story of how it happened told by the brand’s co-founder Anton Rykachevsky …

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StartupBlink: Moscow city ranks #2 in Europe for startup ecosystem development

June 24, 2021

StartupBlink has just released the 2021 edition of its Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report, which encompasses 1,000 cities and 100 countries across the world.  Unsurprisingly, the US leads the country ranking, far ahead of any other country. Then come the UK, Israel, Canada, Germany and Sweden — immediately followed by China. Ranked 7th, China has blazed its way …

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High tech reverberations from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

June 19, 2021

A notable part of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was dedicated to IT and digital transformation as well as the state’s role in these fields (see the forum’s topical sessions and its special Innovation Space). This major event took place on June 3-4, gathering much of the country’s political and business elite and some foreign …

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Car-sharing service “for the people” launches in Moscow and St. Petersburg

May 10, 2021

The Moscow Department of Transport has launched a car-sharing platform, which it says is similar to US service Turo.  Currently in test mode with 100 participants, the app is available on the App Store and Google Play. Dubbed Ruli (‘Drive’), this new service allows individuals to rent their car when lying idle on parking lots. Through the …

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Mail.Ru and Sberbank to acquire food delivery service Samokat

April 7, 2020

Last week, just days after Elementaree.ru secured a $5 million round of funding, Mail.ru Group and Sberbank announced plans to acquire another Russian food delivery startup called Samokat. The tech group and the financial giant – which are both listed on Western exchanges – are committed to acquire 75.6% of the service, according to corporate statements cited …

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From Finland to Japan, Russian startup makes robotics easier to teach in schools

November 12, 2020

School teachers from the Karelia region (Finland) and the St. Petersburg region (Russia) will soon be able to integrate Industry 4.0 topics – from robotics, to 3D printing, to Internet-of-Things, to programming – to their programs.  This program is a joint effort of Lappeenranta and Lahti University of Technology (LUT University), St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), the Lappeenranta city administration, with …

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Outside-the-box approaches to cybersecurity discussed at ZeroNights Conference (St. Petersburg, Nov. 12-13)

September 5, 2019

ZeroNights is an annual international conference on the practical aspects of cybersecurity. The conference will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 12 and 13.  Every year, ZeroNights gathers more than 2000 participants from all over the world: experts and practitioners, analysts and hackers, and everyone who is interested in cybersecurity. Participants will learn …

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CPA and SMM conference IGCONF 2018 (St. Petersburg, Nov. 30)

November 21, 2018

Each year the northern capital of Russia attracts online marketers from leading companies, top affiliate networks, renowned bloggers, representatives of social networks and other advertising professional to a dedicated conference, IGCONF. This international event features keynotes from representatives of VKontakte, Facebook, Viber, Mytarget, YouTube and other market leaders. It is also the opportunity to hear important …

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Yandex.Taxi asserts market leadership, announces new acquisitions

November 12, 2020

Several news came last month from Yandex.Taxi, the taxi-hailing company which merged activities in Russia and some neighboring countries with Uber earlier this year. The company  bought the software assets of a Moscow-based company, Nowtaxi. The software supports the accounting of operations with affiliated drivers and provides related analytics. Formally, the software assets, not the company, have …

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Russian company launches giant mining farm near St. Petersburg

September 18, 2018

Last month crypto mining service provider CryptoUniverse launched what it claims to be Russia’s biggest data center for cryptocurrency mining. Located in the industrial park Levoberezhnyi at Kyryshy, a town in the the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) region, the facility occupies 4,000 sq. m. and hosts 3,000 machines to mine Bitcoins and Litecoins. “We are offering …

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E-marketers from across the world to discuss traffic and monetization issues in St. Petersburg (April 26)

April 5, 2018

On April 26, St. Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia, will host the fifth edition of CPA Life, a leading annual conference on Internet advertising, affiliate marketing, and traffic monetization. The event will bring together top managers of leading CPA networks in Russia, neighboring countries, Europe, the USA and Hong Kong. Among the expected attendees are …

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