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Vladimir Fortov: What's destroying Russian science?

February 6, 2012 Svetlana Kuzina, Komsomolskaya Pravda, translated by Russky Mir Foundation
On the eve of Day of Russian Science celebrated on February 8 well-known scientist ponders the condition of national science and the causes of its stagnation.

S&T Centre inaugurated in Moscow on the eve of Manmohan Singh’s visit

December 15, 2011 RIR
The Russian-Indian scientific interaction is given a new boost, with Russian-Indian Scientific and Technological Centre explicitly addressing technology transfer and commercialization issues.

Smartphones get boost from Russian satellites

November 24, 2011 Russia Today
The rapidly developing GLONASS technology, the Russian alternative to GPS, will soon allow smartphone users to take a peek at a map anytime they want to.

Ten top mobile apps and games from Russia

November 24, 2011 East-West Digital News
Playtime: the Apple App Store and Android Market make it easy for Russian firms to sell their games internationally

Russia and India will light up the moon

November 7, 2011 RIR
Russia is planning to put a “lighthouse” on the moon as part of its joint Russia-India Moon Resource space mission.

iPhone 4S: moving ahead with GLONASS

October 24, 2011 RIR
The latest Apple iPhone model will enable its owners for the first time to receive directions from two global navigation systems – GPS and GLONASS

Yandex develops new targeted advertising

September 5, 2011 Ksenia Boletskaya, Kommersant
By profiling its audience based on the way they search rather than the information they self-report, Yandex hopes to give advertisers a more honest targeting.

Glonass-M satellite launch postponed

August 25, 2011 RIA Novosti
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite was postponed for an additional equipment check.

Rusnano’s big nanotechnology secrets revealed

August 4, 2011 Nikita Dulnev
Russia's state-owned nanotechnology company finally gives some information about the projects it is funding and how it determines which projects it takes on.

The league of robots meets the touch-sensitive garden

July 29, 2011 Svetlana Smetanina
A competition that awards grants to worthy student-led charity projects gives young Russians the knowledge that they can really change their communities - and maybe even their country.

Going global with GLONASS

July 28, 2011 Tai Adelaja, Russia Profile
Russia’s alternative to GPS has a tough challenge to take on its established western rival.

The future of Russia’s space industry

July 26, 2011 Ivan Cheberko, Izvestia (translated by RT.com)
Roscosmos is planning to attract private business to Russia’s rocket and space industry and promotes Mars as a new tourist destination.

The Federal Space Agency asks for more money

July 14, 2011 Ivan Cheberko, Izvestia (translated by RT.com)
The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) is asking to increase the budgetary appropriation for 2012 by one and a half in comparison to the figure approved last December by the “Federal budget law for 2011 and the planning period of 2012 and 2013.”

MTS is optimistic about prospects in India

May 27, 2011 Oleg Salmanov, Vedomosti
An interview of Vsevolod Rozanov, president and CEO of Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd operated under the brand MTS India

MTS India realigns its key leadership roles

May 24, 2011 WirelessFederation.com
In line with its Data Centric – Voice enabled strategy the company is rapidly expanding its voice and data services across the country.

Russia invests in hi-tech health

May 19, 2011 Ben Aris
Russian hospitals are famously run down and underfunded, but reform has taken a front seat for both Putin and Medvedev.

Bright future for GLONASS

May 11, 2011 D. Krylov
Sweden’s Swepos is the first Western company to announce it will use GLONASS, the Russian-produced global positioning system.

A call from Skolkovo

April 29, 2011 Elena Kukol, Rossiyskaya gazeta (translated by RT.com)
The Swedes will help Russian cities save up to €7 million a year.

All set for PSLV-C16 launch

April 18, 2011 RIR
The PSLV-C16 will put in orbit three satellites including an Indo-Russian satellite called Youthsat.

MTS crosses 10 mn customer base

March 16, 2011
Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited, which owns the MTS brand, has crossed the 10 million subscribers mark in India.
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