By September 1, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and a pool of experts promise to develop a roadmap for support of technology entrepreneurship in Russian universities, Firrma.ru reported, citing a verbal mandate government officials received from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. At Phase 1 of the pilot program, five universities will be involved: …
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Students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a robot that will be able to fill up holes in the roadbed, TPU has announced. To identify and address a problem, the robot will be expected to “see” with a machine vision system which will help it recognize the key elements on any road, whether …
RVC, Russia’s national fund of funds for innovation, the Tomsk State University (TSU) in Siberia and DI-Group, a private Russian management company for VC funds, are expected to ink an agreement in May to set up a joint venture fund, Interfax-Siberia reported, citing TSU Rector Eduard Galazhinsky. “The university must become a full-fledged player in a …
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As part of a large set of actions that are designed to lessen Russian reliance on foreign technology and digital services, government agencies in the Irkutsk region (Siberia) were ordered last month by the presidential administration to stop using the services of Google. The ban concerns the use of Google’s web resources for the storage …
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The Russian authorities have redesigned most of the country’s prior e-government plans with new deadlines, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week. The unexpected rewind appears to throw the project back to its 2009 starting point, calling off the 2014 target for the endeavor to come online. Not only is the deadline for completion of the project …
A “socially important and technologically advanced” robotic solution was picked for the first prize at last week’s Startup Village, a sizable annual competition for young technology innovators held at Skolkovo, Russia’s largest state-sponsored innovation hub under construction just outside Moscow. ExoAtlet walked away with the first prize, following two days of rigorous pitching sessions that …
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Last week Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, rolled out the beta version of its long-awaited new portal last week, offering visitors what the developer believes to be an easy-to-use and reliable combination of search, news and ‘life navigation’ capabilities. Available in Russian only, Sputnik.ru is a service and search portal designed to “improve the users’ …
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The Russian government demonstrated earlier this month that it not only knows how to obstruct Internet freedom, but also uphold it. A high-level government official who appeared to have threatened to block Twitter in Russia has been officially reprimanded. Maxim Ksenzov, the Deputy Director of Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom market watchdog, complained on May 16 …
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GS Group, a Russian high tech and telecom holding, continues its global expansion with a clear focus on Asia. Almost two years after the launch of a broadcasting joint-venture in Cambodia, the Russian manufacturer of TV receivers and software for TV operators is putting together another partnership in Bangladesh. The project, which GS is pursuing …
Russian telecom holding uncovers Asian market opportunities, this time in Bangladesh Read More
In what have been a rocky first four months of this year, leading Russian Internet companies saw interest in their stocks ebb and flow. Yandex, Russia’s NASDAQ-listed search giant, was heavily in play. Tiger Global Management, one of the largest pre-2011 IPO Yandex owners, is now completely divested of its Yandex stock, NASDAQ reports.
The Russian-language Internet, which had remained an area of relatively free expression until recently, may soon see its landscape thoroughly reshaped. Haunted by newly resurrected images of the West as an adversary both on and offline, the federal authorities are putting together a package of new internet restrictions, which opposition-minded observers see as the prelude …
As technoparks, IT parks and business incubators spring up across Russia, observers, including the start-ups seeking residency with such organizations, are becoming increasingly interested to know if the return on these multimillion dollar projects is really worth their cost. High-profile experts visiting KomTech 2014, a large innovation support event in Nizhny Novgorod, emphasized that even …
