The Skolkovo innovation centre is gearing up to host the third annual open-air Skolkovo Jazz Science festival this weekend, starring jazz musicians from all over the world and headlined by the legendary Russian saxophonist Igor Butman. The Skolkovo Jazz...
When experienced test pilots and cosmonauts at the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation started building a wooden spacecraft, complete with an interior made out of cardboard boxes, they quickly attracted the mirth of their colleagues. “We called it...
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow,” the Roman poet Ovid wrote two millennia ago. The world may have changed a lot since...
For most of the year, the typical sounds heard at the Skolkovo innovation city are those of distant hammering, as construction work on futuristic new buildings continues, or the whirring of a drone, as tech entrepreneurs experiment with their products. But...
The Skolkovo innovation centre is usually dominated by robots, medical inventions, new IT solutions and other cutting edge technologies, but on August 27, the focus will be emphatically on the arts over science, as the fledgling city hosts the very first Skolkovo...