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01.06.2009, 09:06
Physicist Zhores Alferov spent almost 60 years of his life working on semiconductors – which won him the Nobel Prize in 2000. Today he heads one of the most innovative labs in Russia researching nanotechnologies.
15.10.2010, 15:40
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What exactly is the Skolkovo innovation center and why is the world watching it so closely? Anatoly Aleksandrov, one of six co-founders of the center and the rector of Bauman University fills RT in with the details.
RT Politics Interview
18.10.2010, 20:36
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Moscow police have received a complaint saying that the international collaborative project Wikipedia contains extremist materials, and are currently working to check it.
29.06.2009, 10:52
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Mysterious pictograms consisting of several circles have appeared on a wheat field in Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. Was it someone’s joke or did aliens visit us?
02.09.2009, 10:25
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“Tsar Cannon”, the creators of cutting-edge sniper rifles, has the only factory in Russia that custom makes rifles for the secret service to protect both Russia’s president and prime minister.
20.04.2010, 07:58
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Despite holding the position as one of the world’s biggest economies, China seems unwilling to shed its reputation for producing cheap replicas.
03.03.2010, 13:17
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Russia has launched a program to build a powerful, multi-purpose airship that will certainly cause many people on the ground to take notice.
22.09.2010, 16:08
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President Medvedev has defined the situation with Russia’s defense industry as rather difficult because it keeps lagging behind developed countries. To boost the sector, he urged the industry to focus on innovations.
29.01.2010, 09:30
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The maiden flight of the first Russian fifth-generation fighter jet was completed successfully on Friday morning.
05.03.2009, 16:22
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The Russian military are developing anti-satellite weapons, according to deputy defence minister, Vladimir Popovkin.
Published: 02 June, 2009, 10:25
Igor Sikorsky revolutionized aeronautics and contributed to the appearance of the global travel industry. He was a dreamer, who made his fantasy come true.
Igor Sikorsky is just another example of how genius a native Russian individual can be! His inventions have changed once for all times so many aspects of human activity. Another aspect as to his carrier is that he was forced to flee to US in 1919 and to continue there his fruitful work. That is the issue that the present Russia should focus on in the future: To create conditions which would enable Russian scientists and inventors to stay home and contribute to the prosperity of Russia, and not to some other countries like US, UK, etc. .