A new system uniting IT and medicine is taking its first steps into the Russian market. Billed as digital health, its aims are to help people save money on treatment, to accelerate medical services, and to make those services accessible to people living in the remote regions of Russia’s eleven time zones. Entrepreneurs believe this …
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Freedom House, a US-based NGO monitoring the progress or restriction of human freedoms as it perceives them around the globe, has published its most recent Freedom on the Net 2015 report, the sixth in its series. This edition assesses Internet and digital media in 65 countries in 2014. In its findings, the NGO assigns Russia the “not free” …
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How Russians prepare their food may change in the near future, as a result of a loophole in the restrictions against imported foods in the country. Consumers can access foreign foods online in Russia, offering a small but significant opening in the embargo against foreign groceries. However, it remains to be seen whether this will result …
Consumers accessing foreign foods online in Russia Read More
Bold enough to compete with the mapping services of Yandex and Google, 2GIS, a Novisibirsk, Siberia-based company, has raised $40 million from two major investment funds, Baring Vostok Capital Partners and Ru-Net. Launched in 1999 and now developing across three continents, 2GIS (pronounce “double giss”) is one of the least known but most remarkable Russian technological firms. The …
Mamba, the leading online dating company in Russia, has acquired Teamo.ru, an online service launched in 2010 by Moscow-based Internet startup investor and incubator Fastlane Ventures. Russian business daily Kommersant heard from a source “with knowledge of the project” that Teamo has been valued at “several million US dollars.” Mamba’s general manager Andrey Bronetskiy characterized Teamo as “a …
Russia’s online dating market consolidates: Mamba acquires Teamo Read More
Russian supermodel and philanthropist, Natalia Vodianova, is now also a startup co-founder and creator of a micro-charity app aimed at the millennials — people aged 15-35 who cannot imagine life without their smartphones. The app hopes to “add meaning” to their online existence. The app, christened ‘Elbi,’ makes possible micro donations of £1 or $1 to charitable …
New app by Natalia Vodianova: ‘Love’ is better than ‘Like’ Read More
In mid-October Dmitry Marinichev, the Kremlin’s Internet Commissioner, made controversial statements concerning Russia’s options for further technological development in the current international context. Initially reported by Russian business daily Kommersant, these statements were widely discussed in Russia in the subsequent weeks. Speaking to Russian scientists at Russia’s Civic Chamber, Marinichev underlined America’s monopolistic and hegemonic position in …
A Russian company has announced a successful experiment implanting 3D-printed thyroid glands into mice. The results, which some experts say might revolutionise medicine, will be published next week, “We had some difficulties during the study, but in the end the thyroid gland turned out to be functional,” said Dmitri Fadin, development director at 3D Printing Solutions, to …
Russian scientists successfully implant first 3D-printed thyroid gland Read More
Several factors drive a marketing team to decide which mediums to utilize in their marketing strategies. We reassess our budgets and our decisions after reviewing analytics, questioning our conversions, and figuring out how to get more out of our marketing. For SMBs, getting the most out of tighter budgets requires even more creativity and attention …
On Oct. 25 Russian and Iranian communications ministers Nikolay Nikiforov and Mahmoud Vaezi announced that Yandex, the Russian search giant, was to start operating in Iran. “We are familiar with the powerful Russian search engine Yandex. We agreed that Yandex will open an office in Iran. The system will be adapted for the Iranian people and …
‘No, thanks,’ responds Yandex to government assignment to operate in Iran Read More
Apple’s music service iTunes has deleted songs by the groups Korroziya Metalla (Corrosion) and Tsiklon-B (Cyclon-B), which Russian courts previously recognized as extremist, according to a press release by Roskomnadzor, the Russia’s government’s media watchdog agency. On October 26, Russian censors blocked several pages of iTunes that contained music by these two bands. By removing …
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The Kremlin’s Internet Commissioner, Dmitry Marinichev, earned billions of rubles on uncontested government IT contracts, and then helped engineer a law that “blackmails” foreign companies into renting data servers in Russia, according to a nonprofit group run by anti-corruption activist and Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Marinichev has fired back, accusing Navalny of misunderstanding Russia’s data-localization …
