Skolkovo Might Host G8 2014 Summit

Moscow Times 1 Mar 2012 Skolkovo innovation city might be chosen as the venue for the G8 summit to be held in Russia in 2014, a Skolkovo Foundation official said Tuesday. “We’ve heard that there’s such an option,” the foundation’s chief...

$100M Private Equity Goes to Towers

Moscow Times 29 Feb 2012 A group of funds has invested $100 million into telecom tower leasing company Russian Towers, a rare deal in a country that has traditionally attracted little private equity investment. The bulk of the investment is coming from new equity...

Skolkovo’s influence extending to post Soviet countries

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News 28 Feb 2012 In a renewed round of innovation cooperation in the post-Soviet area, the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian organization in charge of building a world-class technology hub...

Transtelecom acquires regional Internet provider Electro-Com

Marchmont News, East-West Digital News 23 Feb 2012 Transtelecom, or TTK, has purchased 100% of the shares of Electro-Com, an Internet provider working under the Spark brand, Telecom Daily reported earlier this week. The deal will reinforce TTK’s positions in the...