Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank and the 33rd-biggest on earth, has made a huge pivot to tech, as it bids to revamp its image for the digital age. Today the Moscow-headquartered firm inaugurated…
Eugene Kaspersky Launches Tourism Accelerator, Takes Aim at Russian Hackers
If Russian cybersecurity magnate Eugene Kaspersky rarely steps away from a challenge, this week has been even more combative than usual. On Tuesday the Moscow-based chief of Kaspersky Lab gave an interview…
St Petersburg’s Startups Must Continue to Bootstrap, as Russia’s Economy Limits Investors to Moscow
St Petersburg is Europe’s fourth largest city, with 5.3 million inhabitants. It dwarfs other continental hubs like Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon and Stockholm. But one of the three that outweighs it is Moscow.…
Ukrainian Innovators Make Break for Energy Independence
Amid the fallout of Ukraine’s continued eastern conflict, its energy sector has come under intense scrutiny. The 2014 annexation of Crimea wrested a huge amount of energy potential away from the former…