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Russian e-learning developer among Europe’s top 20 20 Jun '14 Dnevnik.ru, an e-learning platform developer, is the...	Russia’s VC market shrank in 1Q 2014, RMG and EWDN analysts found 19 Jun '14 Rye, Man & Gor Securities, a Russian investment firm,...
Dmitry Medvedev: Russia needs alternative energy despite resistance from ‘oil lords’ 19 Jun '14 Russia needs to develop alternative energy sources...	New energy-efficient glass production launched outside Moscow 18 Jun '14 SP Glass, a portfolio company of Rusnano, Russia’s...
E-commerce grows in Volga area; Nizhny Novgorod shows 34% boost 17 Jun '14 The e-commerce sector has been on the rise in the...	Vkontakte cofounders building technopark in St. Petersburg 17 Jun '14 Selectel, a data center company owned by Vkontakte...

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KomTech-2014 Innovation Week: building a bridge from science to business	May 28-30: new KomTech-2014 at Lobachevsky UNN in Nizhny Novgorod
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22 Jul '14 Samara team to develop artificial intelligence for industry Samara State Aerospace University in the mid-Volga...	18 Jul '14 In West Urals, researchers offer oil producers new threading technology Perm Oil Machine Company, a sizable Ural-based...
15 Jul '14 Bankers support venture business in Nizhny Novgorod PSB, a sizable Russian bank that set up its own VC...	9 Jul '14 High-purity optics site launched outside Nizhny to supply medicine and energy A new production site to manufacture high-purity...

22 May '14 New nanocoated pipe production launched in Urals Chelpipe Group, a sizable Russian pipe maker based in...	13 May '14 Russian phototherapeutic technology aids newborn in Switzerland A hospital in Bern, Switzerland, has received brand...
31 Mar '14 Patented Ural technology to appreciably extend service life of pipes Pervouralsk New Pipes, a sizable pipe maker in the...	24 Feb '14 Tyumen technology to treat water to “zero toxicity” Researchers in Tyumen, in West Siberia, have...

17 Jul '14 Virtual reality and physical world all in one, Siberian style A postgraduate at a leading university in Siberia is...	16 Jul '14 With new Siberian solution, cancer surgeries to keep healthy tissues intact Scientists in Tomsk have developed a more accurate...
4 Jul '14 Siberian oil-refining catalyst as perceived step to sector modernization Researchers at Tomsk State University in Siberia are...	27 Jun '14 Siberian solution believed to make parts more wear-proof Microfusion, a Tomsk-based innovation company in...

4 Jun '14 Krasnodar ‘light water’ successfully fights cancers and diabetes? Scientists in Krasnodar, In Russia’s South, have...	2 Jun '14 Russia to apply Sochi Olympics’ ‘green’ construction technologies across country The ‘green’ construction standards used in building...
15 May '14 Investors in Crimea to receive “considerable” Russian government support Investors willing to inject money into the Crimea...	30 Apr '14 Russia seeks to develop start-up industry in Crimea The Internet Initiatives Development Fund, a...

22 Jul '14 Symantec and Skolkovo pen partnership agreement Skolkovo and California-based digital security...	21 Jul '14 DST launches 4th international tech fund DST Global, a large Russian IT-focused fund, has...
21 Jul '14 Russia’s first 300mm wafer size fab in Moscow certified Crocus Nano Electronics, the JV between France’s...	18 Jul '14 Russian start-up launches web-based cancer diagnosis service Russian start-up Unim has launched an Internet...

16 May '14 Yakutia energy supplier upgrades power transmission towers Yakutskenergo, the largest energy supplier in Yakutia...	18 Apr '14 Far East’s Nuclear Medicine Center to use domestic equipment The partners in the large Nuclear Medicine Center...
14 Apr '14 Three best Primorsky projects picked for Skolkovo’s StartupVillage Three best projects in innovative medical materials...	26 Feb '14 Vladivostok team knows how to spare living cells in experiments Far East scientists have developed a system to...

17 Jul '14 In northwest Russia, pizzas get delivered by drone A Russian pizzeria chain and an air transportation...	30 Jun '14 GS Group seeks marketable nanotubes and nanofiber solutions GS Venture, a corporate Russian VC fund, and...
23 Jun '14 GS Group to make new chips for domestic market in Northwest Russia GS Nanotech, a sizable microelectronics developer and...	17 Jun '14 Vkontakte cofounders building technopark in St. Petersburg Selectel, a data center company owned by Vkontakte...

13 Mar '14 Russia’s Chechnya and Iran ready to cooperate in nanotech and biotech Chechnya, a Muslim region in Russia’s Northern...	11 Mar '14 Innovation project database developed in Caucasus’ Adygeya The authorities of the Republic of Adygeya, a small...
6 Mar '14 Stavropol sapphires once again ready for IPO? Monocrystal, the Stavropol-based Russian producer of...	3 Dec '13 Northern Caucasus’ Stavropol supports regional innovation A plate heat exchanger development and production...

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St. Petersburg scientists tap insects’ immune system to brace our own

Entomologists from St. Petersburg State University are on a quest for new antiviral substances that...

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NEWOnly one out of 300 Russian students polled wants to become a businessperson, according to Russian Business Ombudsman Boris Titov. The rest would prefer leading a “safe and stable” life as a government employee. Why do you think the Russian youth shuns risk-taking and seeks the quiet of a salaried office position with little responsibility?

Young people are just too infantile to take calculated risks.

They wisely think of how to provide for their future families, which is easier in a salaried position.

Doing business successfully takes a special gift that few possess.

A businessperson in Russia has to face overwhelming difficulties that the state has created.