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Startup Tour scours Krasnodar and surrounding regions for tech talent
This week, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour, which is travelling the country in search of promising tech startups, called in on the southern city of Krasnodar. The event, held on March 14-15...

Robot revolution: a threat to humankind, or our salvation?
Robots are poised to cause millions of people to lose their jobs, government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote on Monday. Some people fear that jobs are just the tip of the iceberg, and that robots represent...

Biomed startup presents rapid tests for predicting strokes
Skolkovo resident DRD Biotech has unveiled its testing kits for swiftly determining the risk of a stroke. DRD Biotech presented its testing kits in the company's hometown of Ulan-Ude, capital of Russia's...

Skolkovo projects score hat-trick at Pioneers Moscow contest for startups
Startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation won the first, second and third prizes over the weekend at Pioneers Moscow, a competition to discover the best budding tech companies. The final of the international...

Pioneering robots take crash course in Chinese before starting new lives near Shanghai
Five Russian robots have left their homeland to go and work in China as a group of pioneers who will soon be joined by more than 100 of their compatriots. The robots were made by Promobot, a resident company...

Russia takes step closer to space tourism with approval of CosmoCourse project
CosmoCourse, a private Russian space exploration enterprise, has become the first company to get approval from federal space corporation Roscosmos for its space tourism project. The company, one of a slew...

Underwater robots sweep prizes at unmanned vehicle contest
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo...

Leaving the past behind: an interview with Skoltech president Alexander Kuleshov
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...

Celebrating women in science and technology on International Women's Day
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, the U.K.'s main telecom companies joined forces to launch a mentoring programme aimed at encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, as professions...