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Passed! First Skoltech Students Presented Their Projects to Skolkovo Leadership
The first students of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology met with Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation in their Institute. The students spoke to Alexey Sitnikov, Vice-President...

What should Russia expect in 2013?
Pundits predict a loss of momentum for the protest movement at home and see little scope for improvement in relations with the West. High hopes: low-cost Russian satellites will revolutionise the market...

Skolkovo takes Saudi school as model
Russia’s high-tech business school is attracting students from abroad, learning from the experience of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University. In 2010 some 146,000 foreigners studied in Russia...

New Skolkovo software: universal 'film language'
© Photo: SXC.hu From now on any web user can create his own animated shorts with groundbreaking FilmLanguage technology, a co-project of "Night Watch" creator Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs...

Protection Technology Research is back from SeedForum Singapore
On the 9-11 of January Singapore welcomed 6th annual SeedForum event. Protection Technology Research (PTR) took place in this competent investors-startups meeting for the first time. Traditionally Asia...

Former Skolkovo director launches major IT fund
Alexander Turkot, who resigned this past fall from his position as director of Skolkovo‘s IT cluster , has announced the launch of a new venture fund, which he hopes will raise as much as $100 million...

Russia open its doors to homespun and foreign entrepreneurs
Behind Lenin's Tomb in Moscow there is a small door embedded in the Kremlin Wall where Soviet rulers used to duck through on their way to presiding over the annual May Day Parade. The door is small...

Pharma Bio and Berlin Chemie/A. Menarini will develop a new medicine together
The Skolkovo Foundation’s resident Pharma Bio has signed a long term partnership agreement with Berlin Chemie/A. Menarini , one of the leaders of the Russian and European pharmaceutical markets. According...

Skolkovo Scientific Advisory Council Final 2012 Meeting
The Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) of the Skolkovo Foundation in December last year held in the Hypercube at Skolkovo innovation center its final in 2012 meeting, devoted to 2012 results and other important...