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Yandex offers €150,000 grant to Germany-based Wikidata

East-West Digital News Earlier this month, Russian search giant Yandex announced that it has provided a €150,000 grant to Wikidata, a non-profit organization that is developing a knowledge database with structured information obtained from Wikipedia articles. Launched in October 2012 by Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikidata is creating a huge database about different objects, people, things, and [...]

Russian state tech fund starts again after missteps

MOSCOW, June 13 (Reuters) – State technology enterprise Rusnano laid out new plans on Thursday to lure $5 billion in investment to Russia’s technology sector over the next six years after opting out of a previously planned stock exchange listing. Rusnano was set up in 2007 to invest in promising high-tech firms and help Russia [...]