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  2. Science and technology in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Many Russian scientists and university graduates left Russia for Europe or United States; this migration is known as a "brain drain". In the 2000s, on the wave of a new economic boom, the situation in the Russian science and technology has improved, and the government launched a campaign to encourage modernisation and innovation.

  3. History of computing in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The history of computing in the Soviet Union began in the late 1940s, [1] when the country began to develop its Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. [2] Initial ideological opposition to cybernetics in the Soviet Union was overcome by a Khrushchev era policy that encouraged ...

  4. Timeline of Russian innovation - Wikipedia

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    The Russian oven or Russian stove is a unique type of oven/furnace that first appeared in the early 15th century. The Russian oven is usually placed in the centre of the izba, a traditional Russian dwelling, and plays an immense role in the traditional Russian culture and way of life. It is used both for cooking and domestic heating and is ...

  5. UPDATE: U.S. targets Russia's technology sector in fresh ...

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    The United States on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, targeting the technology sector, a sanctions evasion network and what it called "malicious cyber actors" while paving the way to ...

  6. List of online video platforms - Wikipedia

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    Online video platforms allow users to upload, share videos or live stream their own videos to the Internet. These can either be for the general public to watch, or particular users on a shared network. The most popular video hosting website is YouTube, 2 billion active until October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos. [1]

  7. Putin targets AI as latest battleground with West as experts ...

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    Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will develop its own advanced AI models to counter Western influence over the technology – amid warnings that such tools could be misused by nations to ...

  8. In Russia at war, kids swap classroom for shooting range - AOL

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    With other pupils, he got to try out the weapons as part of basic military training - a feature of the school programme that was dropped in the final years of the Soviet Union but has been ...

  9. The Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia

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    The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945.