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Russia’s Internet regulator blocks a thousand websites that mention a prominent banker

April 10, 2019

Roskomnadzor, the Internet and telecom regulator, has blocked roughly 1,000 hyperlinks to different Internet resources mentioning VTB Bank, the bank’s president, Andrey Kostin, and TV news anchor Nailya Asker-Zade. As reported by the Russian media, the Internet freedom project Roskomsvoboda found that Roskomnadzor is enforcing two court rulings handed down last fall. According to legal records, VTB …

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Top investors, entrepreneurs and officials to meet at Kazan’s Russian Venture Forum (April 11)

April 2, 2019

Next week Kazan, the tech-friendly capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, 800 km east of Moscow, will host an array of startup and ICO entrepreneurs as well as top VCs, cryptocurrency investors, corporations and representatives of government agencies.  They will meet at the Russian Venture Forum (RVF), a high-profile annual event which has become over …

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Tech Investment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: February 2019

March 10, 2019

Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia and neighboring countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Since January 2019, EWDN chief editor Adrien Henni has offered a monthly column to highlight the most notable industry facts and trends as well as promising tech innovations from these countries. The February …

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Mail.Ru Group invests in online IT education platform

July 11, 2020

Mail.Ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian Internet giant, is investing is Skillbox, an e-learning platform for digital and IT specialties. The transaction was revealed yesterday by business daily Vedomosti, based on exchanges with representatives of both companies. The group has acquired a 3.6% stake for an undisclosed amount as part of a plan to ultimately acquire …

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Sberbank announces neuroscience laboratory to “connect emotionally” with customers

February 13, 2019

In what could be a world’s first for a bank, Sberbank, Russia’s leading financial institution, is to launch a neuroscience and human behavior laboratory.  Covering the fields of neurophysiology, social psychology and cognitive science, the lab will aim to make the results of its research available to Sberbank affiliates “in their everyday practice.” “The primary objective of …

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War robots: These machines helped Russia’s army demine Syria

January 31, 2018

Russia is in the process of upgrading its Engineer Forces with robotized technology, some of which was tested during the country’s campaign in Syria. More than 6,500 hectares of land was raked through by special machines, which destroyed 100,000 mines and bombs in the process. Thus, Moscow’s campaign in the Middle East gave the military …

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“As good as gold:” This Russian-designed token aims to tackle cryptocurrency volatility

October 11, 2017

In this Blockchain era where technology promises to digitize virtually any type of assets, the emergence of gold-backed tokens is no surprise. The concept is not new, but we are now witnessing its first applications. One of these projects is propelled by Goldmint, a company with Russian roots now preparing for its ICO and the …

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Michelin, Auchan hunt for Russian tech talent at Skolkovo

December 8, 2016

Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and Business France. Forty-five hi-tech startups were selected for private meetings with the French companies from about …

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5 great Russian online games you probably had no idea existed

August 30, 2016

A psychedelic racing game, a dark RPG and a summer camp visual novel: Although many of Russia’s most talented developers move abroad to work for foreign companies, there’s a lot more to the domestic video game industry than Tetris. Even Russian gamers themselves have a somewhat skeptical attitude towards locally produced video games. As developer …

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Skoltech president Alexander Kuleshov: “Transferring the MIT model onto Russian soil may not have been the right thing to do”

March 18, 2016

Alexander Kuleshov, the new president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), officially took over from the four-year-old research university’s founding president, U.S. professor Edward Crawley, last month. In an interview with Mikhail Baklanov, chief editor of Sk.ru, Kuleshov – an expert in IT and mathematical modelling who has served on Skoltech’s board …

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Russia, Israel eye cooperation in hi-tech agriculture

February 16, 2016

Russia and Israel look set to join forces to improve efficiency on Russian farms after Israel’s agriculture minister visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week, where it was agreed that a working group should be set up to facilitate joint research and development of agricultural technology. Uri Ariel, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Israel, …

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RBTH presents Russian Startup Rating 2016

February 18, 2016

Russia Beyond The Headlines, an international source of political, business and cultural news and analysis, has released a new edition of its “Russian Startup Rating,” featuring some of today’s most promising young companies, in partnership with East-West Digital News. Covering dozens of companies in a variety of sectors, this research shows that the recent international tensions have not …

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