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In February 2010, Dmitry Medvedev announced the establishment of a modern technological innovation centre in Skolkovo (on the outskirts of Moscow) for research and development, with an area of 1.5 million square meters, dubbed as Russia's own Silicon Valley after its namesake in the United States. The centre will focus on research in five priority areas: energy, information technology, communication, biomedical research, and nuclear technology.
News, Articles and Blogs
Russian hi-tech hub to host 2014 G8 Summit
April 12, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia may benefit from the brain drain
April 10, 2012 Oleg Alekseev
Russian startups strive for more foreign venture capital
April 9, 2012 Anna Andrianova, RIR
Taking a new look at nuclear
March 19, 2012 Alexandr Yemelyanenkov, RIR
Skolkovo might host G8 2014 Summit
March 1, 2012 The Moscow TImes
EMC to open cloud and Big Data R&D center in Russia
February 13, 2012 Combined reports
'It's a land of opportunity, but Russian team helps'
February 8, 2012 Elena Krovvidi, RIR
Vladimir Fortov: What's destroying Russian science?
February 6, 2012 Svetlana Kuzina, Komsomolskaya Pravda, translated by Russky Mir Foundation
How Jobs would have built Skolkovo
October 10, 2011 Malor Sturua, Izvestia
What Russia can learn from Steve Jobs
October 6, 2011 RIA Novosti; Ian Pryde (Founder and CEO of Eurasia Strategy & Communications in Moscow)
Innovation in Russia waits for a Sputnik Moment
October 4, 2011 Felix Goryunov
India is a partner in Russia’s modernisation
July 6, 2011 Rossiyskaya gazeta
