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Foreign investors expect to see major exits in Russia's e-commerce

May 23, 2012 East-West Digital News
A pioneer among foreign investors on the Russian venture scene, David Waroquier of Mangrove Capital Partners,a recognized expert of the local Internet ecosystem, talked to East-West Digital News about Russia's online market and its challenges

Russians cash in on Facebook

May 22, 2012 Igor Korolev, Cnews.ru
Mail.ru Group and DST, controlled by Yury Milner, made $2.5 billion on the Facebook IPO. They still hold $4.6 billion worth of shares in the social network

Creating a Russian Skype?

May 22, 2012 Dmitry Kryukov, Secret Firmy magazine
Andrei Sviridenko taught modern telephones to transmit voice and show video; now he is focusing his attention on cell phone operators hoping to offset losses from the shift of traffic toward free providers

Russian innovators pursue prototype to prevent piracy

May 10, 2012 Elena Shipilova
The creators of Pirate Pay, a Perm-based start-up, say they can stop files from being illegally downloaded from torrent networks

Let’s make a deal

May 9, 2012 Ben Aris, Artem Zagorodnov
Texan Brian Konradi is part of the team behind one of Russia’s most successful e-commerce ventures: the local answer to Groupon

Avito.ru secures $75 million from Accel Partners and Baring Vostok

May 3, 2012 East-West Digital News
Avito.ru, Russia’s leading classifieds site by brand awareness and number of users, announced that it received $75 million in new funding from Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund IV and Accel Partners as well as from Kinnevik and Northzone investors

Internet gives Russian cinema a bigger audience

April 18, 2012 Daria Gonzales
The Third Double Dv@ Internet Film Festival focusing on fiction film hopes to introduce new Russian cinema to a wider audience.

Russia anticipates an e-commerce boom

April 16, 2012 Victor Kuzmin
Russian online retailers are expecting this year to be the one in which more Russians embrace the concept of online shopping

PPPs Capitalize on Kazan’s Entrepreneurial Spark

April 10, 2012 James Weber, The Kazan Herald
The entrepreneurial nature of Tatarstan’s population makes Kazan and the surrounding region a mecca for new business growth

Pensioners shake up the blogosphere

April 9, 2012 Natalya Radulova, Ogoniok magazine
The largest segment of Internet users may be young people, but increasingly the web is a tool for older people to engage with society

Patriarch Kirill’s missing watch raises heated debate on the internet

April 7, 2012 Marina Darmaros
After claiming earlier in the week to be under attack by unspecified “anti-Russian forces,” the Russian Orthodox Church now faces a scandal that has grown to international proportions

Russian army to increase information security

March 26, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
The Russian Defense Ministry takes a calculated stand against cyberwarfare

Russian online outbound travel market can grow ten-fold by 2015

March 23, 2012 East-West Digital News
Katrin Buckenmaier, CEO of Travelmenu, shared her vision of the fast-growing Russian online travel market and her experience of the challenges faced by a foreigner managing a startup in Russia

IT companies lay out the welcome mat

March 14, 2012 Tino Kyuntsel
Russia is not the first stop on the map for outsourcing. Compared to India, Russians are too expensive – and too inventive – which is why the majority of their good ideas require someone else to implement them

US business angel Esther Dyson: “Online services can reduce the costs of being honest”

March 14, 2012 East-West Digital News
Among US business angels, Esther Dyson is probably the one who has invested the most to date in Russia

The Made Here project leads Russia away from a “commodity economy”

March 13, 2012 Vsevolod Pulya
A programmer challenges a widespread economic cliché on his crowd-sourcing site

Humanity at crossroads: technology explosion or a return to the Middle Ages

February 29, 2012 Svetlana Smetanina
The Global Future 2045 Congress, a recent gathering in Moscow, brought together experts who started discussing the future direction of the human civilization

Sales soar on the Internet

February 29, 2012 Ben Aris
Russia expected to become the largest e-commerce market in Europe by 2019

Online beats print in ad sales

February 23, 2012 Ksenia Boletskaya, Vedomosti.ru
Ad spending in Russia in 2011 exceeded the levels seen before the global financial crisis. More importantly, online ad sales topped those of print ads for the first time.

Campaigning on the street, online and in polling centers

February 20, 2012 Dmitry Kamyshev, Kommersant-Vlast
The newfound political activism among Russians is manifesting itself during this year’s presidential election campaign in three new ways – on the streets, on the Internet, and in the polling place
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