Mar 28, 2012 | News
VTB is in negotiations to buy out the 40 percent of Ingosstrakh held by Czech investor Petr Kelner’s PPF private-equity firm and Italian insurance giant Generali, according to a source close to one of the Russian insurance company’s shareholders. This was...
Mar 28, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 28 Mar 2012 Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund that began investing outside Russia last fall, is providing $1.5 million in funding to Capptain, a French startup that has developed a SaaS platform for mobile analytics and marketing. Capptain’s...
Mar 27, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 26 Mar 2012 Russia’s second fastest-growing regional innovation economy in 2011 according to business monitor RBC Daily, is stepping up efforts to assert itself as one of the country’s most business-friendly ecosystems. Less than three years...
Mar 26, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 26 Mar 2012 The Russian mergers and acquisition market posted a drop last year against a global decline in M&A activity, while foreign purchases of Russian assets stayed almost the same. Overall Russian M&A activity totaled $71.1 billion in 2011,...
Mar 23, 2012 | News
Moscow Times 22 Mar 2012 Two government agencies are linking arms with the Skolkovo Innovation Center to offer small companies and academic teams the chance to sell their energy-efficiency technology throughout Russia in the government’s ongoing modernization effort....
Mar 23, 2012 | News
East-West Digital News 22 Mar 2102 Oktogo.ru, a leading Russian online hotel booking and travel company, officially confirmed yesterday that it has secured a $10 million round of financing. The news was leaked for the first time last month, but Oktogo’s press release...
