Small business sales fall

Banks run out of money for family mortgage program

The Russian economy may face cooling

Russian banks see increase in foreign assets

Bank of Russia proposes subsidies for stock listing

AI and digital transformation discussed at EEF 2024

Russian electronics lacks working hands

Russian regions struggle with office space shortage

Russians’ consumer activity cooling down

The number of vacant offices has decreased sharply

State Duma legalizes cryptocurrency mining

Exports from China to Russia is growing

Russian Central Bank struggles to tackle inflation

Russians took a record amount of microloans

Russia sees budget surplus again

Sberbank contemplates expanding to Bangladesh

Russia lifts gasoline export ban

Expert warns against potential dangers of AI

Pensions in Russia increased by 15%

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Innovation in business: How technology adds value to companies

Innovation per se always changes business, prompting new ideas, boosting effectiveness and improving the decision-making process. Innovation does not just …

R&D laboratory in IT: Objectives, structure and resources

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Russia creates legal framework for crypto mining, legal practices to be finetuned in by-laws

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Is bitcoin capable of replacing dollar?

There have been many predictions about bitcoin eventually becoming an official payment method and possibly replacing world currencies like the …

Igor Nikolaev: Permission to pay in cryptocurrencies is not a panacea

From September 1, the Central Bank launched an experiment to create a platform for the use of cryptocurrencies in international …

Boris Kheifets: Opposition to financial pyramids will rest on risk appetite

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What medicine will be like in the coming decades

Medical robots, neural networks, telemedicine – modern technologies are becoming more and more diverse and perfect. Some of them are …

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Innovative technology is reducing human involvement to a minimum in plenty of segments. AI-powered systems are more precise at diagnostics …

Russia needs new development strategy for industrial infrastructure

Russian startups, as well as the country’s venture capital industry, are facing a very different situation today. Extending to foreign …