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Russian and Italian biologists decode rare genetic disease that may help disabled
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September 16, 19:01 UTC+3
Scientists from Russia and Italy have found a way to unravel the Dopamine Transporter Deficiency Syndrome

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MOSCOW, September 16. /TASS/ Scientists from Russia and Italy have found a way to unravel the Dopamine Transporter Deficiency Syndrome, DTDS. Experiments have shown the nematode C. elegans to be perfectly suitable as a model organism for studying this extremely rare neural system disease, Skoltech’s press-service said. The article with the results of the study has been recentlypublished in the European Journal of Neuroscience.

"We have attempted to reproduce mutations that caused the DTDS on worms and it has turned out that the C. elegans is a very good choice to study DTDS," comments Raul Gainetdinov, one of the co-authors of study.



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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, the part of the brain’s "system of awards." When dopamine neurons are released, an individual feels pleasure, which should motivate him to perform a particular action, e.g. the learning process. To regulate the amount of dopamine, a special protein, a dopamine transporter catches and pump back portions of dopamine after it is released by neuron cells. First described in 2011, DTDS is a genetic disease accompanied by mutations causing the dysfunction of this protein. Children with this syndrome show pronounced neural disorders, for instance they suffer from an inability to learn to walk or talk.

To find and study the mutations in the dopamine transporter gene, scientists have decided to try out the worm, nematode C. elegans, the gene and connectome (the whole map of neuron connections in the brain) of which have been completely decoded.

The researchers have replaced the gene coding dopamine transporter of worms, with the corresponding mutated human ones and tracked the influence of various mutations on the protein activity. For the investigations, the scientists utilized the toxin which kills only dopamine neurons when entering the cell via the dopamine transporter. With the help of this toxin, the changes in the activity of the dopamine transporter caused by mutations have been evaluated. When ‘knocked out of service,’ the toxin cannot enter the cell and it stays alive.

Up to now, 13 mutations have been discovered and most probably in further studies, new mutations leading to disorders in the functioning dopamine transporter and consequently causing DTDS will be disclosed.



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Russian scientists discover aggression causes new nerve cells to be generated in brain
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February 03, 16:51 UTC+3
The new publication confirms a previous theory - mice that are accustomed to fighting not only behave differently, but their brain starts to function in a different way

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MOSCOW, 3 февраля. /TASS /. A group of neurobiologists from Russia and the United States have proven experimentally that aggression has an influence on the production of new nerve cells in the brain. The scientists conducted a series of experiments on male mice and published their findings in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) said in a press release.

Researchers from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences(ICG SB RAS), MIPT, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, andStony Brook University and School of Medicine studied the changes that occurred in the brains of mice demonstrating aggressive behavior, which attacked other mice and won in fights. After a win, these mice became even more aggressive, and new neurons appeared in their hippocampus - one of the key structures of the brain; in addition to this, in mice that were allowed to continue fighting certain changes were observed in the activity of their nerve cells. The scientists hope that the new information on the neurobiological bases of aggression will not only help in understanding this important phenomenon, but will also encourage research in other areas - and even help in finding causes of autism and other similar disorders in humans.

The experimental scheme
This is how the experiment itself was conducted: pairs of male mice were placed in a cage bisected by a partition. The partition allowed the animals to see, hear, and smell each other, but did not allow physical contact. Every day, in the early afternoon, the partition was removed and the observations began: it did not normally take long for fights to break out. After two or three encounters the winner was established and was then (after three minutes, or sometimes less to avoid injuries to the defeated male) separated from its neighbor again. After repeating the process for three days in a row, the scientists changed the mice in the cages, randomly placing defeated males with a new neighbor (but, most importantly, each time a defeated male was placed in the same cage as another winning male). In one group, after three weeks of these rotations, winners were prevented from entering into confrontation, and in another group the mice continued to fight with one another.

The scientists also conducted a series of tests to demonstrate the effect of aggression not on the brain, but on behavior. For example, the mice were placed in a cross-shaped maze (plus-maze) where one corridor was closed and the other was an open space. The more time that the mice preferred to spend in the dark, closed space, the more their behavior could be described as "avoiding risk".

The mice were placed in a cage with a transparent partition and another male on the other side - the more time the mice spent close to the barrier, the higher the level of potential aggression. This interpretation is consistent with the fact that the active animals in the study tend to attack their partners if the opportunity arises (tests were also performed to prove this).

All the tests showed that males with winning experience in a number of fights display a more "brazen" attitude - they approach the transparent partition more often and initiate an attack on their opponents more quickly. If the mice were deprived of fighting for a period of time before the test, they became even more aggressive: the latency to the first attack was almost three times less, and the fights themselves lasted for longer. But what is particularly interesting is that at the same time their level of anxiety increased - a male who succeeded in tearing out patches of hair from the back of a weaker mouse would rather avoid open spaces, preferring to sit in the dark wherever possible.

The influence of aggression on the brain structure
Simply observing individual neurons, or even groups of neurons, does not give a complete picture. The location of the cells needs to be taken into account. The activity of neurons in different regions of the brain may vary significantly, as these regions perform different functions.

In this particular study, the scientists examined the hippocampus and the amygdala. It is often said that the amygdala is associated with emotions, and the hippocampus with memory, and this is generally true - but it should be clarified that despite this, memory is not localized in the hippocampus, and to experience emotions even mice need more than just the amygdala.

Comparing the activity of the amygdala and the hippocampus enabled scientists to trace the influence of the aggression experiment on two key structures at once. Past evidence suggested that in aggressive and socially active mice, more new neurons are produced in the hippocampus, and in specially bred lines of mice with increased aggressive behavior, the level of neurogenesis is also higher than those who were selected on the basis of reduced aggression.

In this experiment, scientists discovered that with repeated fights the level of the c-fos protein increases in the hippocampus, but decreases in the amygdala. And if the mouse is prevented from being involved in further fights, these changes do not occur in the function of immediate early genes, although new neurons still develop. The researchers also conducted a number of additional tests and experiments to interpret the observations made.

The new publication confirms a previous theory - mice that are accustomed to fighting not only behave differently, but their brain starts to function in a different way. The number of new cells of the hippocampus increases, and if the mice are allowed to continue fighting, the activity of existing cells also changes. New cells seem to be one of the key mechanisms of the increase in aggression and, perhaps, also anxiety - although scientists are not yet certain of this: the winning reputation of an aggressive and dominant mouse would almost certainly need to be backed up by new fights, but this is not something that will help to reduce anxiety.



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Tomsk nanomaterials for new energy sources

19 Sep '16
Researchers at the Tomsk State University (TSU) are using new materials to develop technology that would enable inexpensive hydrogen production for renewable batteries (fuel cells) which appear to be eco-friendlier than the existing competition and could be used in any hard to reach areas in need of energy, for example, in Africa or the Arctic, the TSU website announced.

Such batteries use pure hydrogen and oxygen. While the latter can be obtained from the air, getting the former poses a problem. It’s difficult and costly to transport. However, using nanomaterials that react with water, an innovative product by TSU and its local partners at Advanced Powder Technology, can enable hydrogen production right where it’s needed, said Edward Dreizin, a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a visiting professor at TSU.

The Siberian scientists have developed nanodispersed powders that can be produced by applying electric explosion technology. The TSU-created nanoparticles give materials certain properties required, and have wide applications, from energy to aerospace, to medicine.

According to Prof. Dreizin, the TSU team is shooting for a complete cycle from the development and fine-tuning of the materials to commercialization. Researchers from the U.S., Italy and Jamaica are also expected to join the effort. The TSU group is currently busy looking for funding for their endeavor.
 

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MEPhI Researchers Figure Out How to Improve Centrifuge Efficiency TECH 14:58 20.09.2016 (updated 15:15 20.09.2016) Get short URL 19400 Researchers at Russia’s National Research Nuclear University (NRNU MEPhI) have created the world’s first formula to describe the separative power of a concurrent centrifuge for binary mixture, which will improve the devices’ efficiency, the university’s press office told RIA Novosti. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia's leadership in the global production of inexpensive enriched uranium for nuclear power plants is based on a technology that was developed in the mid-20th century. The modern gas centrifuge method for uranium enrichment requires no more than 2% of the energy consumed by the previously used diffusion method. © SPUTNIK/ ALEXANDR KRYAZHEV Russia’s MEPhI Committed to Expanding Nuclear Education Program At present, the cost of Russian uranium is dramatically lower than the equivalent US fuel. However, to stay ahead, we constantly need to improve the technology, the scientists note. The gas centrifuge method for uranium enrichment is based on the separation of uranium isotopes in strong centrifugal fields. It is important to determine the dependence of the optimal separation capacity of a centrifuge on the parameters of the centrifuge and the gas used. In other words, professionals need to understand how changing the parameters of the centrifuge – the rotor speed, length, diameter, etc. – will change the effectiveness of the isotopic mixture separation. The team at the MEPhI Molecular Physics Department has derived a formula that describes the separative power of a centrifuge that is optimized for a variety of parameters. It is a simplified model – the concurrent centrifuge with a direct gas flow (the gas flows in on one side and flows out on the other). CALI4BEACH Every Scientist Should Know What Impact Factor Is - MEPhI Expert Until recently, scientists had only published experimental information obtained for Russian 0.5 meter countercurrent gas centrifuges. They struggled to find a theoretical basis for the available experimental results. Even worse, these results were directly contrary to theoretical approaches. The formula for a simple concurrent centrifuge of arbitrary length and an arbitrary binary mixture will help professionals understand what measurements must be taken to develop the most effective devices, said MEPhI Molecular Physics Department professor, Sergei Bogovalov. According to Bogovalov, the resulting formula is applicable to natural gas stripping in centrifugal fields with large amounts of gas pumped through. The results were published in the leading scientific journal, Nuclear Engineering and Technology. “It became clear why the separative power increased as a velocity squared, not velocity to the fourth power, which follows from simple parameters. The formula tells us how we can influence the design to change this correlation,” he told RIA Novosti. The scientist noted that the resulting formula is consistent up to the numerical factor with the published experimental data for countercurrent gas centrifuges. “This is the most surprising thing actually, because the nature of the gas flow in concurrent and countercurrent centrifuges is fundamentally different. We are now investigating why the formula coincides so well with the experiments. In addition, we are not yet sure if the formula is universal. We’re working on this now,” Dr. Bogovalov added

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Russia's TsENKI, Roscosmos Seal $28Mln Contracts to Modernize Baikonur TECH 11:43 20.09.2016 (updated 11:44 20.09.2016) Get short URL 126830 Russia's Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure (TsENKI) and Roscosmos state corporation have concluded three contracts worth some 1.8 billion rubles ($28 million at the current exchange rates) to modernize the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, TsENKI's press service said in a statement Tuesday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In August, Roscosmos published materials on Russia's official public procurement website, showing that the state corporation was allocating some 1.8 billion rubles on making systems' upgrades to increase the launch reliability of the Soyuz manned transport spacecraft and rocket complex as well as the Progress cargo spacecraft. "TsENKI and Roscosmos have concluded three contracts to modernize the complex of Baikonur. Particularly, TsENKI will modernize the launch, technical and measuring complexes at the space center. A total amount of the contracts is about 1.8 billion rubles," the statement said. © REUTERS/ SHAMIL ZHUMATOV New Space Station Crew Blasts Off From Baikonur According to the statement, the specialists from the TsENKI should modernize infrastructure used for production, storage and transportation of propellants, among other issues. Baikonur is the main space center used by Moscow for its activities related to the space flights. At the same time, Russia has been constructing Vostochny in country's Amur Region since 2012

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Russian Scientist Finds Healthy Alternative to Coke, ‘Energy’ Drinks RUSSIA 15:33 04.09.2016 (updated 15:44 04.09.2016) Get short URL 73044452 In an interview with Sputnik, Russian neurologist Rustem Samigullin spoke about IdrinQ - a newly developed potion which he said could change the people’s opinion about "energy drinks" and offers everyone an easy way to stay healthy and fit. During the 1990s, Samigullin led a team of researchers studying the effects of the alpha lipoic acid on diabetes patients suffering from nervous pathology. “We proved that intravenous injections of alpha lipoic acid tended to slow down and reverse the disease. However, such intravenous infections are not cheap and not everyone can accord them, especially in the Third World countries,” Samigullin said. © FLICKR/ W_MINSHULL Liverpool Politician Wants to Ban Coca Cola Christmas Truck Over Obesity Worries After their effort to treat patients with alpha lipoic pills proved ineffective, the team decided to experiment with a more comfortable liquid form. “But the problem is that the alpha lipoic acid tastes just awfully. You take a sip or two and a minute later you throw up. That’s why we put this whole idea of a daily diabetic drink on hold,” Samigullin added. The team then decided to mix French-made amino acid L-arginine, a potent aphrodisiac, with the alpha lipoic acid. With the help of German scientist Klaus Vessel, a good friend of Simagullin’s, they managed to make the energy drink more palatable. © PHOTO: ENCRYPTA GMBH IdrinQ The effect of this combination didn’t take long coming as people could now walk a long way without feeling tired! “A few days later, we realized that why not make this drink available to all people, to make them feel healthy and fit and get rid of all this poisonous stuff they call ‘energy drinks,’” Rustem said, adding that Red Bull, Monster and other so-called “energizers” were just stimulants. “Sugar is the only energy they have with all the rest being just stimulants. All they do is send your blood pressure up and make you feel active while [IdrinQ] improves blood circulation and burns the sugar in your cells,” he emphasized. Even though it has already been patented in many countries, IdrinQ is little known on the market. “In the food market you can come up with the best product around but if you have no money to advertise it will simply not be happening. We hoped that as soon as someone like Red Bull learned about us they would buy us up and start making a decent product instead of poisoning people, but no one seems interested simply because we are small and no one has heard about us,” Rustem Samigullin complained

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Sanctions Hurting? Russia Opened 12 Large Manufacturing Plants in August Alone
The Russian economy continues to modernize despite the crisis. Here are some reviews of 12 large new plants that opened in August

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August 1

Khabarovsk’s largest fish processing facility began operations in Nikolaev, at the Eastern Fish Factory LLC’s old fish processing complex. Output is 500 tons a day, delivered to markets of the Far East, Siberia and Central Russia.





One billion rubles was invested in modernization of workshops, and Technological Equipment, a Russian company, designed the new equipment. The plant employs 500 people.





August 3

Angstrem-T commissioned a semiconductor foundry in the Zelenograd district of Moscow.





Angstrem-T JSC is part of the larger Angstrem group, the largest manufacturer of integrated circuits in Eastern Europe. The total cost of the foundry is about 45 billion rubles and offers 900 jobs in manufacturing of sub micron semiconductors. It currently uses 130-90 nanometer technologies and expects to move up to the 65 nanometer level.





August 18

In the city of Podolsk in the Moscow region, Puratos Group, a Belgian company, opened a second plant producing ingredients for the baking and confectionery industry.





Three manufacturing facilities will produce chocolate frosting, bakery and confectionery mixes, dry and liquid leaven, with more than 90% of products made from Russian ingredients.

The project costs over 1.1 billion rubles,and with the launch of the second plant at full capacity, the total number of employees in Puratos Russia will be about 350.





August 23

A new plant for the production of biaxially oriented polypropylene film was opened In the city of Shakhty in the Rostov region. It will produce more than 20 types of high quality packaging, up to 50% of which for export. The project began in 2013 as part of the chemical and petrochemical industry’s development plan for the period up to 2030. The investments amounted to 8.4 billion rubles, and Waterfall PRO of the Megapolis Group Holding Company created 317 jobs.











August 26

In Togliatti, Samara region, KuibyshevAzot JSC opened a new production plant. The launch of energy-efficient production of cyclohexanone will increase the production capacity of caprolactam from 190 to 210 thousand tons, and in the future - up to 260 thousand tons a year, enabling the company to increase output of derived products: polyamide-6, technical and textile yarns and tire cord fabric.





Total investment in the project, in cooperation with RUSNANO, was 9.8 billion rubles, including RUSNANO's 1.25 billion rubles. The production scale, the level of energy consumption and the environmental record are comparable to the best world analogues.





In Adygea, Maikop district, VOLMA-Maikop opened a gypsum plant whose investment volume exceeded 2 billion rubles, and which will create 170 jobs. The plant is located 20 kilometers from the mine supplying natural gypsum. Production capacity is 180 thousand tons of gypsum building mixtures and 540 thousand square meters of partition blocks a year.





August 27

In the city of Zhigulevsk, Samara region, the first production stage of new types of batteries with high cyclic durability was launched. EFB class batteries are in production, and the development of new types of AGM and GEL classes of lead acid batteries is in progress. Consumers of these products are car manufacturers and car owners, as well as energy, telecommunication, transport and communication companies. The 1.2 billion rubles were invested ,and 104 jobs will be created. EFB, AGM, GEL batteries are not produced in Russia today, so the products of ACOM JSC will not have domestic counterparts in the near future.

In Ishim, Tyumen region, AminoSib opened the second stage of the plant for deep processing of wheat. The second stage includes a workshop for the production of gluten, glucose syrup, ethanol and feed mixture. The total investment from the agricultural holding Yubileiny was more than 6 billion rubles.vIn 2017 after commissioning the plant will process wheat into four types of products: lysine, gluten, ethanol and feed mixture, adding 190 jobs.





August 30

The refrigerated food processing plant Sozvezdie, in the city of Perm, opened an ice-cream factory. The investment by the agricultural holding Komos Group amounted to more than 600 million rubles, creating 250 new jobs. Commissioning will allow Sozvezdie to increase production of ice cream threefold - up to 12 thousand tons a year.





In Khabarovsk a plant for the production of basalt insulation entered service. TechnoNICOL-Far East LLC has become an anchor investor in the priority development territory of Khabarovsk. Investments from TechnoNICOL corporation amounted to 2 billion rubles. The company product range includes more than 100 types of thermal insulation based on stone wool, and created 120 new jobs. The plan is to export 20% of the total production by 2019.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the Central Research Institute Burevestnik JSC, part of Uralvagonzavod corporation, opened a new production and procurement facility. Investments amounted to 1.26 billion rubles, and 150 jobs were. Also on August 30 the construction of a new assembly plant CRI Burevestnik was commenced.

Project implementation increase production almost five times, for a revenue of 8-10 million rubles per employee. Products are made for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, as well as for export.

August 31





In the Oktyabrsky district of the Amur region, the first stage of a new plant for the production of soybean seeds was launched. The volume of AmurAgroHolding investments amounted to 800 million rubles, and will create 237 new jobs. The plant’s superior seeds will enable the farming of crop varieties at the Russia Soybean Research Institute and the Far Eastern State University Production of wheat seeds is planned.





The following plants also opened in August:

A new plant for the production of polymeric resin at the electric insulating materials factory held by a group of companies Elinar, in the Moscow region

A new plant for production of building insulating materials and packaging by the Penoterm group of companies in the Sverdlovsk region.

An assembly plant for mining pumps opened by Weir Minerals LLC of British company in the Smolensk region.

A new plant for the production of large size equipment for he Avtospetsmash metallurgical enterprises, in the Vologda region.

A plant for the production of polyethylene pipes by the group of companies Region LLC, in the Samara region.

A factory for the production of hockey sticks by Zaryad LLC, in Tatarstan.

The first stage of a Russian-Korean plant for the production of lithium batteries, in Grozny.

A new plant for the production of meat products by Vladimir Standard LLC, in the Vladimir region.

A meat-processing complex by Sangilen + CJSC, in the Krasnoyarsk region.

A plant for the anticorrosion treatment of pipes owned by TMS-Noyabrsk LLC, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District
 

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GVA helps Indian startups into Russia as both countries boost business
20 September 2016 ADRIEN HENNI, EAST-WEST DIGITAL NEWS
In a bid to bolster bilateral business linkages, Moscow-based Global Venture Alliance has joined hands with Mumbai-based incubator, Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), to launch the ‘India-Russia Bridge for Innovations’ (IRBI).
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Global Venture Alliance (GVA), a Moscow-headquartered provider of business services, training programmes and seed funding for startups, has teamed up with the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), a major tech business incubator based in Mumbai, and launched the ‘India-Russia Bridge for Innovations’ (IRBI) on September 17.

The BW Disrupt, an Indian online publication, has reported that the IRBI program enjoys financial support from the Indian Government’s Department of Science and Technology.

As part of the programme, 10 Indian startups are participating in a 2-week accelerator programme in Moscow. GVA will introduce them to the Russian market for an educational, practical, networking and cultural perspective. Also included in the programme is a visit to Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow.


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Among the Indian startups coming to Russia are Campus Time, whose mobile app connects students on college campuses; Ecolibrium, which provides Big Data energy analytics; Field Assist, which has developed a mobile monitoring system for on-field sales; Frodo, which is developing an adventure camera; and ShopsUp, which offers a hyperlocal store discovery app with cognitive capabilities.

Some medical technology startups are also participating in the venture; among them A3 RMT, Algosurg Products, CareNx Innovations, Medprime Technologies and Transcell Biologics.

GVA believes these startups could potentially develop partnerships with Russian businesses in the very short term.

Over the past few years, GVA has launched a number of initiatives to develop the Russian innovation ecosystem. In particular, it offers startup acceleration programmes as well as training and networking programs for entrepreneurs and investors. GVA has also launched a seed fund and corporate startup accelerators with such companies as IKEA and Faberlic. GVA currently has permanent offices in Moscow and San Francisco, and claims to have 20 partners in different countries around the world.

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Russia and India have been strengthening their ties in the field of high technologies over the past years. In September 2014, a delegation of scientists, educators and ministry officials from India paid a visit to Skolkovo on a fact-finding mission to study the opportunities available for Indian students and startups in Russia.

A few months later, 15 IT companies from Skolkovo took part part in IndiaSoft, a major industry conference and B2B networking; then Skolkovo and the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) of India signed an agreement to create a cluster of Indian IT firms at the Russian tech hub.

Also noticeable is the flow of Russian tech investors to India. Ru-Net, a Moscow-based venture fund backed by Leonid Boguslavsky, invested in several Indian e-commerce companies, including Indian mobile recharge platform FreeCharge in 2014. Another Russian investor interested in the Indian market is Boris Ryabov, managing partner of venture fund Bright Capital. Last year he took part in a $1.7 million round of funding for Indian food delivery service Inner Chef, along with Ukrainian and local investors.

In February 2016 AFK Sistema, a Russian LSE-listed conglomerate, launched a proprietary $50-million fund to support startups operating in the technology and niche consumer retail segments in India and other Asian countries. Its latest investment went to QwikCilver, a Bangalore, India-based provider of gifting card solutions.


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Most recently, Firrma.ru reported that Russian edtech startup ProctorEdu announced its participation in Indian accelerator EDUGILD, in a bid to enter the Indian market.

In the field of microelectronics Angstrem — a major Russian player which has just been targeted by US sanctions — will shortly deliver to India, its first export market, new radiation-resistant microchips it has designed for use in outer space.

The leadership of both Russia and India is encouraging business collaboration.

Most recently, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin met his Indian counterpart, Sushma Swaraj at the 22nd session of the Indo-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC). The two governments hope to expand bilateral trade to up to $30 billion by 2025, BW Disrupt reported.
 

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A Son of the Caucasus Gives His Life for Mother Russia (Video)
Magomed Nurbagandov, a policeman from Dagestan, was executed by local Islamic terrorists. The video was found two months after his murder

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Before dying, he called on his fellow policemen: “Work, brothers…”

The video of the last minutes of the Dagestani policeman, highlights several feats, personal, professional and civil. The non-ethnic Russian Muslim gave his life for Russian ideals and modern society in Dagestan.





His death deserves more media scrutiny. How much blood and sweat Russia shed for it to be possible to say: “The Caucasus are with us!” Not just in terms of location but with heart and soul. And now we see bitter, but at the same sweet fruits: a citizen of the Caucasus gives his life for Russia.

I watched the Immortal Regiment parade in Kabardino-Balkaria last spring on the Internet. Women brought their children, dressed in military uniform, with St. George ribbons. The Caucasus exulted when its sportsmen won golden medals at the Olympics in Rio, and not only because of the victory of their countrymen. They were proud of the fact that small mountain peoples could contribute to the glory of Russia. They danced in the streets, laughed and cried, and I recalled Putin’s words about Russian Muslims: “They are not migrants. They are our citizens. They don’t have any other Motherland. They consider Russia as their Motherland”.

The West demonizes Muslims, and top officials do their best to drive a wedge between Christian and Muslim civilizations. Russia and its president tell a different story, and the West needs to notice Russia’s ability to have good relations between large and small peoples, maintaining inter-religious peace.

In the last two decades, dozens of Caucasus citizens died fighting Wahhabi terrorists. They deserve praise for choosing Russia over their coreligionists, who got on the wrong path. This is the result of the blood shed by Russian soldiers in the fight for the integrity of Russia and the life of the Caucasian peoples, free from Taliban and al-Qaeda.

His body was brought to his knees by force. But the soul of Magomed Nurbagandov stood tall.
 

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Russia’s first automatic analyzer for medical tests under way outside Moscow

21 Sep '16
Eiliton, a Russian company headquartered in the Dubna special economic zone outside Moscow, has received a $38,000 Moscow Oblast government grant to develop Russia’s first automatic analyzer for in vitro medical tests, portal Rusnanonet.ru reported.

Today, diagnostic labs across Russia’s clinics predominantly use semiautomatic analyzers that require imported test strips. There are about 10,000 such analyzers in the country. Their main deficiency is reported to be substantial errors that stem from the necessity for medical staff to put sample liquids on test strips manually.

The solution to the problem would be a completely automatic analyzer capable of covering the entire cycle from taking a sample to producing test results all on its own. No manufacturer produces such analyzers in Russia as of now. Imported automatic analyzers are in limited use because of their high cost ($20,000-30,000 per device).

Eiliton is expected to develop a solution that would analyze urine by 12 obligatory and two optional parameters with a capacity of at least 240 tests an hour. Minister of Investment and Innovation of the Moscow Oblast Denis Butsaev promised the new analyzer “will beat analogs in price and will successfully compete in other characteristics.”
 

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Skoltech to develop neural network for retailers

22 Sep '16
The development of an image recognition system to take stock of goods in supermarkets is underway in Russia. Skoltech, the Skolkovo-based tech university, and Inspector Cloud, a private company, are responsible for project-related R&D in computer vision, portal Science & Technology RF reported, adding that the partners started work in August already.

According to market players, retail audit reports are seldom even 50% accurate, as stock-taking in supermarkets is still manual. The new solution is expected to help retail chains forecast sales and compute an ROI from marketing activity.

Inspector Cloud will be receiving photographs of shelves with food and other goods from a store to recognize the goods to be accounted for, and then generate a report with an estimated accuracy of 95%, using neural networks algorithms. Such approach has already been successfully tested in other areas, like recognizing people by analyzing photos and videos. With goods in supermarkets the task is a bit more complicated as each item has its typical shape, distinct characteristics, and a variety of tags.
 

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Moscow scientists work to upgrade monitor production technology

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An international team of researchers led by Russian scientists has come up with a method of lowering the cost and improving the quality of monitors and other optoelectronic devices by using silicon nanoparticles in lieu of expensive semiconductor materials currently utilized in monitor production, portal Science & Technologies RF reported. The technique has been described in an article published in the latest Physical Review B issue.

Physicists at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) are said to have managed to make silicon nanoparticles glow when impacted by radiation, and do it manifestly enough to use the particles in a replacement for today’s costly semiconductors used in monitor production. According to Maksim Shcherbakov, a research fellow at MSU’s Department of Physics, the new technique helps boost the efficacy of nanoparticle photoluminescence “by several times.”
 

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Moscow investors buy into rollers that really last

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The Moscow Seed Fund teamed up with Oleg Evseenkov, a Russian private investor, to back the Rollcon, an innovative project developing advanced solutions for modern conveyor belts, Russia’s RVC announced. GSP, the Russian developer behind the effort, has received just under $108K in investment.

The company has come up with a new type of repairable roller with a modified ball bearing system and replaceable plain and roller bearings. The entire product is made of modified thermoplastic polymers, which is expected to increase the service life of all components dramatically compared to the existing international competition.

All the components in the Rollcon roller system are interchangeable to suit a variety of diameters and lengths of items to transport, which should reduce warehousing costs and help change conveyor rollers fast without buying an entire unit anew.

In its production and marketing strategy GSP is reported to bet on inexpensive outsourcing systems to interact between suppliers and distributors. The company is also strategizing for fast international expansion and a rapid growth of value.
 

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Russia mulls new system to read online messages in real time
September 22, 2016 MARÍA KOLOMYCHENKO,KOMMERSANT
The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of introducing new technology to allow them to decipher internet communication. The system may involve the use of “man-in-the-middle” attacks in order to harvest information as it is transmitted.
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“The FSB wants to decipher traffic in real-time and analyze it according to key parameters." Source: AFP / East News

Russia’s security services and government are discussing a whole series of technical solutions that would help the authorities decode internet communication and thus give them access to all internet traffic in Russia, reports the Kommersant newspaper.

Analyzing traffic according to keywords such as "bomb" will be done with the help of the DPI system, which is already used by communication operators to infiltrate prohibited sites. Operators are obliged to preserve records of internet traffic in accordance with the recently introduced “Yarovaya law,” although without decryption the controversial legislation is useless.

Experts believe that the scheme being discussed will eventually not only help prevent potential threats but will also build internet user profiles and even make it possible to evaluate the user's psychological condition and tastes.




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To implement the Yarovaya law the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Communications Ministry and the Ministry of Industry and Trade are discussing not only issues related to the withdrawal of data and its preservation but also the decryption and analysis of internet traffic, said a senior manager at one manufacturer of IT equipment. His statement was confirmed by a Kommersant source in the presidential administration and another one in an IT company.

"It is meaningless to preserve exabytes of encrypted internet traffic – you won't find anything there,” said Kommersant's source from the presidential administration.

“The FSB wants to decipher traffic in real-time and analyze it according to key parameters, for example, according to the word ‘bomb,’ while the ministries insist that only the traffic coming from users that concern the law enforcement organs should be deciphered," said the source.

How will the decryption be conducted?
According to the Yarovaya law, organizers of information dissemination, that is, owners of internet platforms that help transfer electronic communications (e.g. Google, Yandex, the Mail.ru Group, WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Facebook, VKontakte, etc.) have been obliged to give their encryption keys to the FSB since July 20, 2016.

"Foreign companies will not submit to this requirement while Russian ones may give the keys after multiple requests,” explained one of Kommersant's sources, adding that there is an “enormous number of sites” on the internet that are not “organizers of information dissemination” and that use protected https connections.

“Without deciphering the traffic it is not always possible to understand which site the user viewed, not to mention what they were doing there," said the source.

Both Kommersant sources confirm that one of the decryption options being discussed is the installation of equipment in operators' networks that is capable of conducting an MITM (“man-in-the-middle”) attack as the information is transmitted.

"For the user the equipment pretends to be the requested site and for the site it pretends to be a user. It works like this: The user will install an SSL connection with this equipment and it will connect to the server that the user will use,” explained one of the Kommersant sources.

“The equipment will decipher the intercepted traffic from the server and before it sends it to the user it will again encrypt it with the SSL certificate provided by the Russian Certification Center. In order for the user's browser not to inform the user of an unsafe connection, the Russian Certification Center must be added to the trusted Root Certification Centers in the user's computer," said the source.

How effective is the decryption system?
IT experts interviewed by Kommersant say that this system for internet traffic decryption is not ideal.

"When the authorities' intention becomes known, the certificate from the certification center will be removed with the first update from all the software that deals with encrypted traffic,” said Denis Neshtun, general director of Moscow telecommunications company Arsientek.

“And this is correct because the possibility of creating ‘false’ certificates discredits electronic commerce: All bank cards, all the users' credentials in all the systems can be intercepted," he continued.




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According to Alexei Lukatsky, an internet security consultant at U.S. multinational Cisco Systems, MITM works well and legally for client-server technologies based on SSL.

“But more and more people are moving away from this and are switching to TLS, for which MITM cannot be done today. And concerning end-to-end encryption, which most messaging services are based on, an MITM is completely unrealizable," he said.

This article has been abridged. The full version in Russian can be read at Kommersant.
 

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Sakhalin gas pipeline could create a win-win situation for Russia and Japan
September 22, 2016 VIKTOR KATONA, SPECIAL TO RUSSIA DIRECT
The materialization of the Sakhalin-Japan pipeline would give Russia additional bargaining leverage with the European Union, as well as increase its presence in the Asian market. Japan would benefit by importing cheaper gas.
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While presenting the details of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok earlier this month, reporters began to shed light on the Japanese proposed bid package, allegedly consisting of eight points.

The plan comprises of appeals to widen cooperation in the spheres of healthcare, urban planning and small and medium enterprise cooperation. However, the most noteworthy item in the plan is the reinvigoration of a long-faded proposal to construct a gas pipeline between Russia’s Sakhalin Island and Japan.

An old idea
The idea of constructing an underwater pipeline between Sakhalin and the Japanese islands has been floating around in one form or another for the last 15 years.



The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 brought the issue back into the limelight. Russia was one of the first countries to offer support to Japan in the form of rescue teams and energy supplies.



Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. expressed its interest in constructing a Sakhalin-Tokyo gas pipeline, which it deemed technically feasible and economically viable. At that time, sources cited a throughput capacity of 8 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year.

ExxonMobil, the majority owner and operator of the Sakhalin-1 project, reciprocated the interest and reiterated its willingness to start gas exports by 2008. Afterwards, the project was silently and inconspicuously phased out. In 2006, a new variant emerged of a gas pipeline uniting Sakhalin and Japan, to be constructed between Sakhalin’s gas fields and the northern prefecture of Aomori on Hokkaido Island.

The Japanese offer came on the back of rising liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices. Once again, the initiative did not last long as the Russian Federal Service for Oversight of Natural Resource Usage investigations of environmental damage to Sakhalin’s wildlife forced the subject yet again into temporary oblivion.

Aftermath of Fukushima
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 brought the issue back into the limelight. Russia, not unlike its firm commitment to stand by the United States immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attack, was one of the first countries to offer support to Japan in the form of rescue teams and energy supplies. This reinvigorated the dialogue between the two countries and provided a new impetus for the discussion of joint energy projects.




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Famously devoid of fossil fuel resources, Japan has been trying to get the most out of the current dire situation when almost all of its energy is produced from fossil resources.

Although there exist many other gas-producing regions from which it is possible to source the gas, Sakhalin is a fitting variant. Only 45 kilometers away from the northernmost tip of Hokkaido, Sakhalin’s gas production amounted to 28.4 bcm in 2015.

Of this, Russian energy giant Gazprom’s part is approximately 8.5 bcm – 7.5 bcm from Sakhalin-II and an initial 1 bcm from Sakhalin-III (Kirinskoye field). As Sakhalin-III moves towards its projected peak production levels of 21-22 bcm, to be reached by 2026-2027, Gazprom would find ample space to fill an eventual gas pipeline to Japan, as well as to continue with its LNG business. Even U.S.-imposed sanctions specifically targeting the gas-rich Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field need not derail the project.

Benefits for Japan and Russia
The sole fact that the gas pipeline project has found government support after many years of linking the development of economic cooperation to signing a Russo-Japanese peace treaty, with the return of the Northern Territories (as the Southern Kuril Islands are called in Japan) as a sine qua non condition, marks a significant shift towards pragmatism on the part of Japanese politicians.

Japan is advocating an undersea gas pipeline for a number of reasons, but primary among them is profit. It has been relying significantly on LNG imports to cover its energy needs. Southwest Asian LNG prices have been higher than European or American ones for quite some time, therefore, a gas pipeline would allow Japan to avoid paying a significant price premium.




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The materialization of the Sakhalin-Japan pipeline would give Russia, or Gazprom to be more precise, additional bargaining leverage with the European Union. It would also help Gazprom deal with the traditionally staunch Chinese companies as it would rid itself of a one-market export dependence and bring to fruition the eastbound gas supply diversification it long sought to attain.

If enough political will would be demonstrated to push the Japanese deal through, it could also give impetus to revive Russo-Korean talks on the construction of a gas pipeline either via North Korea or by means of an underwater pipeline.

The writer is an oil supply specialist at MOL Group and expert at the Russian International Affairs Council, currently based in Budapest.
 

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10 features that define Russia’s economic crisis
September 23, 2016 DMITRY MEDVEDEV, SPECIAL TO RBTH
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has published an article about the causes and results of the economic crisis in Russia in which he outlines the situation and the options facing Moscow. RBTH presents the 10 key points of Medvedev’s article.
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Because of the oil price slump, Western sanctions over Ukraine and structural problems, the Russian economy has found itself in a serious crisis. In an article (in Russian) in the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev looks at the main cause of the crisis and its key repercussions, as well as the options the country faces in order to work its way out of crisis.

In his opinion, Russia is going through a fundamental overhaul of its economic system. Here are the 10 key points of Medvedev’s article:

1. Russia’s economic problems are part of global problems
The global crisis that has been going on since 2008 has resulted in growing instability on world markets. A global financial market has been formed that is capable of transferring huge sums of money almost instantaneously. Yet it lacks an adequate global regulatory system. Political considerations are playing a larger and larger role in economic policy, sometimes to the point of replacing market competition. Sanctions are merely a graphic illustration of this trend.

2. The Russian economy is affected not by the oil price and sanctions, but by structural problems


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In 2015, oil prices halved in a matter of about six months, which is unprecedented in modern economic history. However, the main factor remains rooted in the structural problems of the Russian economy, primarily the exhaustion of the economic growth model of the 2000s. A substantial reduction in growth rates started long before oil prices declined and sanctions were imposed on Russia.

3. Russia has remained a market economy despite external threats
In late 2014, Russia was told that it was in for a disaster. And disaster could have happened had the government decided to fix the exchange rate, increase budget spending, freeze prices, etc. Instead, the authorities worked consistently to cushion the shocks. The results beat out most predictions.

4. Dependence on oil is decreasing
The share of non-oil and gas revenues amounts to almost 60 percent. Decisions to switch to inflation targeting allowed Russia to preserve its foreign exchange and gold reserves and ensure the stability of its monetary system. Inflation is steadily decreasing and will not exceed 6 percent this year.

5. The banking system has remained stable, despite the crisis
The Russian Central Bank closed 48 banks in the first six months of 2016 and 93 banks in 2015. Importantly, these measures did not cause a bank panic in Russia. Its banking system is fairly stable. In 2015, individuals’ bank deposits went up by 25 percent, and Russia’s corporate accounts grew by 20 percent.

6. Capital flight from Russia is down



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In 2015, capital outflow from Russia fell more than 2.5-fold to $58.1 billion, compared with $153 billion in 2014. In the first six months of 2016, it amounted to $10.5 billion, compared with $51.5 billion in the same period in 2015. Furthermore, Russia’s aggregate external debt decreased from its maximum of $733 billion in mid-2014 to $516 billion in mid-2016.

7. There are signs of industrial growth
The devaluation of the ruble has prompted industrial growth inside the country. In 2015, the food industry grew by 2 percent, chemical production by 6.3 percent and petrochemical production by 0.3 percent. The production of medicines has increased by 26 percent. Agriculture is demonstrating steady growth: In 2015 it grew by 3 percent, and in the first seven months of 2016 by 3.2 percent.

8. Companies and individuals are buying more Russian products
The effect in the car making industry has been the most pronounced. Through the establishment of joint ventures with foreign companies, in 2015, the share of imports fell by 22.5 percentage points. There has also been a slump of 4.5 percentage points in the production of metals and metal ores, 7.8 percentage points in the manufacture of textiles and small wares, and 4.1 percentage points in food production.

9. Companies are better off than individuals
However, these stabilization measures are so far unable to compensate for the main consequence of the crisis – a decline in Russians’ prosperity: Disposable incomes and real wages have gone down. At the same time, Russian companies have over 21,000 billion rubles ($185 billion) in their accounts.

10. The government hopes for a boost in investment
To put Russia on the path to sustainable growth requires a substantial increase in the scale of investment, from the current 20 percent to 22-24 percent of GDP. It is necessary to develop measures that would not only incentivize savings, but also encourage their transformation into investment. The problem is not in interest rates but in the high level of uncertainty.

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Moscow spends a week as the world's science park capital
September 23, 2016 VICTORIA ZAVYALOVA, RBTH
Representatives of science parks from 45 countries gathered in Moscow this week to discuss opportunities for startups and the challenges that innovators face.
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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a plenary session at the 33rd IASP World Conference on Science Parks and Areas of Innovation at Moscow's World Trade Centre. Source: Yekaterina Shtukina/TASS

R&D, commercializing new technology, and bringing startups to the global market were the main topics discussed at the annual conference of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP). The event took place this week in Moscow on Sept. 19-22, and focused on technologies that can help solve global challenges such as hunger and the energy crisis.

Jerome Engel, adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkley, pointed out that with the development of technology and globalization it is no longer possible for the institutes of innovation to unite according to geography alone.

"Cluster is not a geographic location; but rather, it’s a global community," said Engel in his speech. "We all have to build a bond with others."

He added that this will allow science parks across the globe to create "superclusters of innovation," and will allow startups to enter international markets more quickly.

Going global
Thanks to cooperation with international partners the Moscow State University (MSU) science park has managed to bring the Russian startup Lumiprobe (in Russian) to the global market.

The company produces molecular biology and diagnostic reagents and is currently operating in 30 countries. In Europe the startup opened an office in a technopark in Hannover, as well as one in the U.S., in the state of Florida, said Oleg Movsesyan, head of MSU's science park. This only became possible after the park joined the IASP community in 2008 and established contacts with many partners around the world.



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The MSU science park is looking for new opportunities for its residents. “Several of our companies asked us to put them in touch with technoparks in Armenia, Iran, and even Cuba, because they have medical and diagnostic products that they want to develop and to sell in those countries.”

While Internet technologies and the sharing economy have already made it easier for Russian startups to enter international markets, Movsesyan said it's still easier to go global with the support of a science park.

“Of course, dynamic companies do not need partners: for instance, our resident Jivochat, the developer of the online chat, independently entered markets in the U.S., Latin America, India, Brazil, and Portugal," said Movsesyan.

"Unless we actively develop platforms for interaction and an international network of technoparks, we may lose this market because the Internet already makes it possible to do everything without intermediaries," said Movsesyan.

There are currently 26 technoparks in Moscow, and by the end of the year applications from 20 more innovation zones will be considered.

Top down innovation
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in his address to the IASP conference that Russia has different models for innovation, including clusters, science and academic towns, which were created back in Soviet times.

"Events such as this conference allow us to compare these models, to learn of successful examples of commercialization and launching startups," said the Prime Minister, who added that the Russian government had recently launched a program for development of so-called children’s science parks to foster a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Medvedev also spoke about Skolkovo, the Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley that is supported by the state. He pointed out that "the level of complexity of R&D there is rising."




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Paul Krutko, president of Ann Arbor Spark in the U.S. and member of the board of the IASP, said he was impressed with the thought process behind such projects as Skolkovo. While traveling to other countries he noticed that some technoparks forgot the need to develop an ecosystem for startups. In Skolkovo, however, a full-fledged ecosystem has been created.

"A top down innovation strategy is not bad if you are not just building facilities, but also creating the whole environment for the innovation community," Krutko said.

The IASP’s Moscow conference was the largest in the association’s history, attended by more than 1,000 representatives of global institutions.

The conference was organized by the Moscow City Government, the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the RVC government fund, the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises, the MSU Science Park, and the Strogino Technopark.
 

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Russian Railways, Bombardier Divisions Agree to Export Joint Technology © Sputnik/ Ramil Sitdikov

TECH 16:49 23.09.2016(updated 16:52 23.09.2016) Get short URL 135110 Russian Railways (RZD) reported on Thursday that the company and its subsidiary – the Research & Design Institute for Information Technology, Automation and Communications on Railway Transport – reached an agreement with divisions of Canada’s Bombardier to export joint products in the fields of railway automatics and telemechanics to world markets. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A relevant memorandum was signed by Russian Railways, its subsidiary and Bombardier divisions – Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB and Bombardier Transportation (Signal) – at the Innotrans-2016 International Trade Fair for Transport Technology in Berlin. “The sides expressed their intention to export joint products in the fields of railway automatics and telemechanics to other countries,” the report said. © SPUTNIK/ RAMIL SITDIKOV Russian Railways is Open for Investment for Private Railways Construction They include cyber protection solutions, station control networks and comprehensive systems for checking and monitoring infrastructure, to name a few. “According to the memorandum, the sides plan to draft a pilot project abroad and conduct a feasibility study before the end of 2016,” the report said.

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Russian Railways, Siemens to Create Big Data Engineering Center © Sputnik/ Evgenyi Samarin TECH 16:51 23.09.2016Get short URL 122710 Russian Railways and Siemens signed a strategic memorandum on creating a joint engineering center for big data processing. BERLIN (Spuntik) — The signing took place during the international conference, Railway Engineering: Partnership of 1520 and 1435 Rail Gauge Manufacturers. © SPUTNIK/ ALEXEI DANICHEV Siemens Reveals New Engine for Russia's Maglev High-Speed Rail Project On the Russian side, the memorandum was signed by Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer of Russian Railways Valentin Gapanovich. On the German side, President of Siemens Russia and Central Asia and Vice President of Siemens AG Dietrich Möller signed the memorandum. According to Mr. Gapanovich, the deal is about “creating a modern engineering center based on innovative big data technology.” "We are talking specifically about creating a data analysis center for digital technology, the service, the infrastructure and the rolling stock,” Mr. Möller said. “The strategic memorandum contains, of course, additional measures to promote high-speed and extra high-speed communication, production and operation of locomotives, but our focus is, most certainly, on automation, remote control and digital technology."

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