The priority areas for investment will be the production of high-tech medical products, development of new medicines in the field of oncology and their delivery systems, development of software for body functions monitoring, etc.

This figure has doubled since 2015: 400 thousand legal entities were fined then.

The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) presented an annual ranking of the investment attractiveness of Russian regions. The ranking is for the first time headed by Moscow.

Within the frame of the signed agreement, the companies intend to develop partnership in the field of acquiring, as well as in other innovative fields.

Russian IT market grew by 17% in 2018, as compared with 2017, reaching a volume of 1.5 trillion roubles.

The fund will invest in projects in the fields of artificial technologies, innovative materials and space technologies.

The number of closed companies exceeded the number of those that were opened 2.14 times.

A total of 211 such projects have been implemented during the year.

The manufacturer of smartphones and smart devices Xiaomi is planning to launch its own contactless payment service, Mi Pay, in Russia.

A data centre with its capacity comparable to the entire domestic market may appear near Moscow. The project under the working title “Istradigital” involves the construction of a technopark with a data centre several dozen kilometers away from Moscow, along Novorizhskoye Highway.