Russian healthcare marked a major milestone on Wednesday with the opening of the branch of a top Israeli hospital at the Skolkovo innovation centre, meaning Russians can now access Israeli healthcare without having to leave the country. Prime Minister...
The annual Skolkovo Startup Village kicked off with two signing ceremonies and various jokes about the chilly weather on Thursday as startups, investors and major tech figures from all around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation city for Eastern Europe’s...
As Moscow prepares to host up to one million football fans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup , one Skolkovo resident startup is set to offer fans and Muscovites alike a new form of transport convenient for covering the so-called last mile: kick scooters for rent...
2017 has been another packed year for the Skolkovo innovation city. The last year saw the Skolkovo Foundation’s total number of resident startups reach about 1,800, with the first of them moving into the newly finished Skolkovo Technopark at the beginning...
While recycling, a rejection of plastic bags and other eco-friendly initiatives are now a way of life in many European countries, Russia – the biggest country in the world – lags woefully behind in this area. This year was declared the Year of Ecology...
The Skolkovo International Gymnasium began the new school year on Friday in a brand new purpose-built building with more than twice as many pupils as last year. Children line up with flowers to give their teacher, as is traditional in Russia, outside...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at whose initiative the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow was founded in 2010, praised the project’s evolution at a meeting of the Skolkovo Foundation’s board of trustees on Wednesday. “I’d...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
“Wisdom gotten from age is better than the shell of a tortoise,” goes the Japanese proverb, the rough equivalent of “experience is the mother of wisdom.” Lack of experience can be a problem for many startups, no matter how innovative...
The Skolkovo innovation centre graduated to the status of a true city on Tuesday with the arrival of its first residents, who received the keys to their brand new homes at a celebratory housewarming event. Two of Skolkovo's youngest new residents...
The first residents preparing to move in to the Skolkovo innovation city’s brand new housing met with Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg on Thursday to discuss their future community. Marina Stepanova, the first person to sign a rental...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is often praised for the rate at which it is sprouting out of the ground on a patch of land just west of Moscow. Just a few years into the project, hundreds of resident companies are already here, as is the Skoltech university...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...