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Sovereign AI and the Cost of Compute: Economics, Not Ideology
Three economic levers determine whether moving AI workloads onto an organization’s own infrastructure pays off.
14.08.2026 12:57
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Sovereign AI and the Cost of Compute: Economics, Not Ideology
Three economic levers determine whether moving AI workloads onto an organization’s own infrastructure pays off.
14.08.2026 12:57
Point of view
AI Data Center Support Should Reflect Market Demand
The question of supporting AI data centers should be considered in the context of both actual market demand for this type of infrastructure and the state of the commercial data center market, says Andrey Guk, CEO of OBIT.
13.08.2026 10:22
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MTUCI Rector Sergey Erokhin: How Do You Build a Next-Generation University? MTUCI’s Digital Transformation
Today, a university is not only an educational institution but also a complex digital ecosystem. What data does a university leader rely on to make management decisions? What results has MTUCI’s digital transformation delivered? What lessons have been learned from completed projects, and what challenges lie ahead?
10.08.2026 10:03
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MTUCI Rector Sergey Erokhin: How Do You Build a Next-Generation University? MTUCI’s Digital Transformation
Today, a university is no longer just about lectures and exams. It is a digital environment where speed, convenience and technology matter. How is the role of secondary vocational education changing? How does IT infrastructure become an indispensable management tool for a major university? Why is artificial intelligence becoming a core competency?
07.08.2026 18:37
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The Cultural Code of Artificial Intelligence: Why We Are Arguing Not About the Technology but About the Term
By Vladimir Leshchenko, expert in artificial intelligence and knowledge management
02.08.2026 17:53
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Astra AI [Code] vs. Open Source: Why Deploying an Open Model in a Secure Environment Is Costly and Risky
Comparing the economics of buying an enterprise-ready AI coding platform with building one from open-source components.
12.07.2026 17:17
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Technological Adolescence: An Essay on AI's Civilizational Challenge to Humanity
Based on the essay "The Adolescence of Technology" by Dario Amodei, 2026
23.06.2026 15:53
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AI's Impact on Small Businesses Is Still Limited – For Better or for Worse
Despite the growing excitement around artificial intelligence, its impact on small businesses in Russia remains relatively modest.
19.06.2026 13:29
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Konstantin Polyanichev: "Technology Doesn't Replace Art – It Opens a New Doorway to It"
AI is turning Russian museums into interactive journeys, adding a new digital layer to the country's cultural landscape.
17.06.2026 14:01
Territory management and ecology
GeoAI From Sber Aims to Transform Land Management
Sber has introduced GeoAI, a suite of AI models designed to support territorial management, from monitoring soil degradation and desertification to controlling invasive plant species.
17.06.2026 10:58
Point of view
Sovereign AI Must Deliver Economic Value, Not Just a Sense of Control
Sovereign AI matters only if its value can be measured in productivity, operating costs, risk reduction, and return on investment.
15.06.2026 14:04
Science and new technologies
The World's First Palladium Laboratory Opens at Nornickel
As the world's largest supplier of palladium, Nornickel is seeking to reshape the platinum-group metals industry through its Palladium Technologies Center. The company's goal is to create entirely new markets for palladium across a wide range of high-tech sectors.
15.06.2026 09:21
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Kodik’s AI Editor Is Already Winning Recognition in the Startup Market
An AI-powered code editor developed in Russia is helping programmers write software faster by taking over part of the routine work.
08.06.2026 15:03
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Foreign Git Platforms Are a Risk for Russian Companies. Here’s Why
Git long ago stopped being just a version-control system. The platform where your repositories live has become the center of engineering operations: source code, commit history, CI/CD pipelines, secrets, issue tracking, code reviews, build artifacts – everything flows into a single environment. Losing access to that platform is not an inconvenience. It is a development shutdown.
03.06.2026 17:42
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Tomato-Picking Robot Arm Aims to Take Over Harvesting Tasks
Anton Vlasenko, a student at the Information Technology Faculty of Novosibirsk State University, has developed an intelligent robotic manipulator designed to automate tomato harvesting in commercial greenhouses. Built using 3D-printed components, including a gearbox, articulated arm segments, brackets, and a gripper, the system can distinguish ripe tomatoes from unripe ones, track the ripening schedules of different varieties, and return later to fruit that is not yet ready for harvest.
01.06.2026 17:18
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Alexander Demidov: “It’s Not Just Us Helping AI – AI Is Helping Us Too”
How Neural Networks Are Transforming the Electronics Industry
29.05.2026 14:00
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Vladimir Bubnov: “Automation Is Accelerating Even Emergency Care”
A Russian IT company has developed a proprietary digital solution designed to streamline ambulance services and public-sector operations, covering the entire workflow from call intake to billing and data reporting.
06.04.2026 15:38
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Julia Belikova: “We Have Built an Operating System for Russia’s Fishing Industry”
A digital platform for organising fish storage and wholesale trade has been launched in Russia
03.04.2026 12:24
Science and new technologies
Vision Without Lidar: How a Russian Breakthrough Is Redefining Robotics Perception
An international research team with participation from MIPT has introduced the stereo vision technology Un-ViTAStereo, designed to estimate distances without expensive lidar sensors or manual depth labeling by using the Depth Anything V2 model as a supervisory signal.
02.04.2026 12:21
The nuclear industry
Russian Universities Train Specialists for Nuclear Robotics
Seven Russian universities, including Tomsk Polytechnic University and the Seversk Technological Institute of NRNU MEPhI, are to establish a core laboratory focused on specialised robotic systems for next-generation nuclear energy.
01.04.2026 12:52
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Zabbix and Astra Monitoring: Import Substitution or a Partnership to Boost Productivity
Russia’s IT market is undergoing a fundamental shift – and in monitoring, the real change is not just about replacing tools, but about seeing what actually drives the business.
25.03.2026 14:15
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Natalia Markova: “Our Digital Reality Has Overtaken the Visions of Sci-Fi Writers”
A Russian property tech expert explains how smart home technologies are reshaping everyday life – not just in individual flats, but across entire residential districts
23.02.2026 19:35
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Alexander Goldstein: “Vibe Coding Is a New Reality That Could Reshape Software Development”
IT expert discusses the trends redefining modern development
16.02.2026 16:59
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Sergey Lebedev: “The market does not need gadgets – it needs resilient navigation systems that actually work in real-world conditions”
Satellite navigation systems are developing at pace in Russia.
03.02.2026 13:38
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Russia’s AI-and-Cloud Strategy in an Era of Global Volatility (part III)
As the global AI market faces turbulence, inflated expectations, and signs of an infrastructural correction, Russia is pursuing a quieter but more resilient path — one built on open-model adaptation, cost efficiency, sector-specific solutions, and long-term technological sovereignty rather than headline-driven AGI races.
07.12.2025 14:17
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Russia’s AI-and-Cloud Strategy in an Era of Global Volatility (part II)
While the U.S. AI ecosystem leans heavily on proprietary APIs and high-cost infrastructure, China is betting on open-source LLMs as the foundation of a new global industrial expansion. Russia, observing this shift, sees in China’s approach a strategic alignment with its own long-term priorities: efficiency, sovereignty, and technology built for real-world resilience.
06.12.2025 15:32
Point of view
Russia’s AI-and-Cloud Strategy in an Era of Global Volatility (part I)
As the global AI market shakes under financial turbulence, hardware bottlenecks, and spiraling cloud costs, Russia is betting on a slower, steadier, and ultimately less risky path — one built on open-model adaptation, diversified hardware, and technological sovereignty.
05.12.2025 15:48
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Natalia Miloslavskaya: Cyberattacks Are Becoming More Sophisticated
As digital networks grow increasingly complex and the global economy becomes ever more dependent on IT, cyberattacks are evolving in scale, sophistication, and impact. Information security is transforming into a core industry essential for governments, enterprises, and citizens alike. In this in-depth interview, Natalia Miloslavskaya, Professor at the Department of Information Security of Banking Systems at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, discusses the latest trends shaping cybersecurity in Russia and beyond.
24.10.2025 14:14
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A New Reality: Why Russian Civil Servants Are Learning to Work with AI
Russia’s National Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy sets an ambitious goal: by 2030, at least 80% of workers — including government employees — should be using AI tools in their everyday tasks. Thousands of municipal and state officials across the country are already learning how to apply neural networks to daily work. IT RUSSIA spoke with Kirill Pshinnik, co-founder and CEO of Zerocoder University, about what this transformation means, why it matters, and how it will reshape governance
23.10.2025 00:29
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‘We Are Different’: How Russia’s Regions Are Training the Next Generation of IT Professionals
The Russian IT and AI education market has experienced explosive growth over the past year. Between January and June 2025, the number of online schools teaching artificial intelligence skills doubled compared to all of 2024. The annual turnover of AI education projects is expected to exceed 5.6 billion rubles (around $63 million). According to Russia’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 'Informatics and Computer Engineering' became the most popular major among 2025 graduates, with 869,158 applications—an average of 22 candidates per place. And now, students can acquire sought-after skills without leaving their home regions.
23.10.2025 00:12
News
Chelyabinsk Student Develops Neural Network to Predict Arrhythmia Recurrence
The system not only identifies patients at risk but also explains how it reaches its conclusions.
08:41
News
Rosneft Automates Pipeline System Modeling
The company developed a new information system called Potok (Flow) for the task.
14.08.2026 22:46
News
Russian Scientists Propose Using Electron Beams to Boost Crop Yields
Researchers have already conducted two years of field trials that demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach.
14.08.2026 20:59
News
Driverless Tram Development Set to Begin in Cherepovets
Students from a local university will play an active role in the project.
14.08.2026 19:11
News
RFNC-VNIIEF to Develop Semiconductor Wafer Etching System
The institute will receive 1.43 billion rubles (about $17 million) for the project.
14.08.2026 17:02
News
St. Petersburg Researchers Develop Digital Assistant for Drinking Water Quality
The system analyzes several key operating parameters at once.
14.08.2026 14:41
News
AR Group Launches New Platform for Industrial Product Labeling
The system can process up to 1.2 million product-labeling codes per minute.
14.08.2026 12:27
News
Neural Network Scans 160,000 Images in Search for Missing Helicopter in Primorye
LizaAlert, a volunteer search-and-rescue organization, has used a neural network to analyze drone imagery in the search for a missing Robinson R44 helicopter in Russia’s Primorye region.
14.08.2026 10:13
News
Yandex Music Plans to Label Tracks Created With AI
Yandex Music plans to give artists and rights holders a way to tell listeners when AI was used to create music.
14.08.2026 08:48
News
Rostelecom Unveils No-Code Builder for AI Agents
Lukomorye, an IT ecosystem within Rostelecom’s commercial IT cluster, has introduced Oko (Eye), a platform for building and running multi-agent AI systems in production.
13.08.2026 23:24
Russian Creative Week
Tatyana Matveeva: Russia Should Invite International Partners and Show Them Its Technological Capabilities
Dmitry Fofanov: Russia Needs to Build a Positive Image for Its IT Industry
Digital Ecosystem Takes Center Stage at Russian Creative Week
Sergey Novikov: Russia's Digital Creative Products Can Compete on the Global Stage
News
Chelyabinsk Student Develops Neural Network to Predict Arrhythmia Recurrence
Rosneft Automates Pipeline System Modeling
Russian Scientists Propose Using Electron Beams to Boost Crop Yields
Driverless Tram Development Set to Begin in Cherepovets
Industries
Seconds, Not Hours: Russian Scientists Train AI to Detect Heart Disease
From Manual Measurements to Digital Tools
MegaFon Tests Its First Private 5G Network in the Lab
Digital Seed Quality Control
Cybersecurity
New law on digital currency: how the electronic payment market will change
Breakthrough in cybersecurity: new methods of personal data protection
Cybersecurity in the Age of Digitalization Analysis of Current Threats and Protection Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Tools Empower Government Functions
Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life: Russia’s Practical Implementation
Artificial intelligence has learned to recognize users' emotions
Robotization of production: how automation is changing the labor market
Laws and standards
Russia Calls for Unified International Norms in Digital Security
The Russian Model of Digital Integration as a New Framework for Global Cooperation
Russia Proposes AI Governed by Human Conscience
Blockchain is more than cryptocurrency: unexpected uses for the technology
Point of view
Sovereign AI and the Cost of Compute: Economics, Not Ideology
AI Data Center Support Should Reflect Market Demand
MTUCI Rector Sergey Erokhin: How Do You Build a Next-Generation University? MTUCI’s Digital Transformation
MTUCI Rector Sergey Erokhin: How Do You Build a Next-Generation University? MTUCI’s Digital Transformation
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