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Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Science and technology in Russia have developed rapidly since the Age of Enlightenment, when Peter the Great founded the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov founded the Moscow State University, establishing a strong native tradition in learning and innovation.
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 ...
The Russian IT sector drew comparatively little from Soviet-era institutions. [3] Russian IT companies were started in the early 1990s by founders with an academic background seeking to find a place in the new market economy. [3] Piracy was widespread in the country, with an estimated 90% of all software in Russia being pirated in 1997.
As of 2015, Internet access in Russia is available to businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up, cable, DSL, FTTH, mobile, wireless and satellite . As of 2020, 122,488,468 Russians (85% of the country's total population) were Internet users. [1] As of September 2020, Russia ranked 47th among the world's countries by the ...
RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya; Russian: Россия Сегодня) is a Russian state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. [16] [17] It operates pay television and free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian ...
Yandex LLC (Russian: Яндекс, tr. Yandeks, IPA:) is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine called Yandex Search, launched in 1997, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
Mail.ru Group is a Russian technology company. They own many companies, including VKontakte, Odnoklassniki.ru, YouDrive, Delivery Club, etc. In May 2017, Forbes put the Mail.ru Group in 97th place out of 100 most innovative companies in the world. In February 2017, Forbes estimated that the company's value was about 4 billion dollars.