Media Technologies Center JSC (CMTec) listed among Alisher Usmanov structures has started Newstube video service that aggregates video content of nine Russian TV channels, as well as the resource users. At the moment the service has an experimental character and its owners do not have definite marketing policy. The company has to invest up to $10 million in marketing to compete efficiently with Rutube and Youtube, as experts consider.

Production of “aspheric optical elements on a machine using nano-positioners” became the first investment project of Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RCNT; Rusnanotekh). NCP Nanotekh company receives €8,66 from RUR 130 billion allotted by the government to nanotechnologies development. . In RCNT assure they had completed documents passing and expect some scale projects would be approved in the nearest future

Rostecnology State Corporation introduced to the Ministry of Transport offers about the transfer to ownership of the state stockholdings of State Transport Company “Russia” and OJSC Vladivostok Air. The Corporation also plans to take control over the less significant assets, such as AiRUnion, OJSC Saratov Airlines, Federal State Unitary Aviation Enterprise (FSUAE) Kavminvodyavia, Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Orenburg Airlines, Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Uchebno-Trenirovochnyjj Center. If the plans of the State Corporation will be realized, a new company can appear in Russia outstripping Aeroflot on the internal market. The State Corporation asks to transfer it these assets under the condition that all FSUEs will be restructured into OJSC

Federal Security Service (FSS) of the Russian Federation issued the cellular operators MTS and VimpelCom permission for permanent operation of Blackberry mail service. This year the companies are able to give users 16 000 cryptographic smartphones. Experts consider that the main users of Blackberry will become the Russian offices of the western companies – the Russians prefer local products for information defense

On February, 20 ETIRC Aviation Corporation (Luxemburg) will begin factory construction for production of civil very light jets (VLJ) Eclipse 500 in the special regional economic zone (SREZ) “Zavolzhie” near Ulyanovsk. Eclipse 500 is the first representative of the new generation of jets. It is a six-seat twin-engine liner, maximal flying distance of which makes 1600 nm at cruise speed 355 mph (408 km/h).

Russian “space” physicians are ready to share their developments with “earth” colleagues. “We began the batch production of Regent loadings suits that can help the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands patients after an ischemic stroke, and wait orders from neurological clinics and other potential consumers”, reported Irina Saenko, deputy general director of Aerospace Medicine Center, senior research assistant of Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). According to the data of clinical trials, Regent application increases efficiency of patients’ rehabilitation after an ischemic stroke and cranial cerebral traumas almost twice, she marked.

The Russian Internet search portal “Yandex” has published the data of the latest research “Internet development in regions of Russia. Autumn-Winter 2007″. Though the estimations stated in this report can be disputed, in the whole the document looks verisimilar. World Wide Web development in Siberia and in the Far East

Russian company SUP announced about acquisition of Livejournal dot com – one of the most popular Internet services in Russia network diaries. As they say in the company official report, SUP has acquired company LiveJournal, Inc., that owns all assets of service LiveJournal, from company Six Apart. LiveJournal Inc will continue its activity in San Francisco, the USA. The company will manage and operate LiveJournal. It is expected, that 9 employees of Six Apart working with service of LiveJournal, will work in the new company. Six Apart remains with staff of about 150 employees all over the world. The cost of LiveJournal is undisclosed. SUP and Six Apart companies have confidential clause that does not allow them to disclose financial conditions of the transaction, as it is informed in the official press release of SUP.

Naspers Limited Company from Republic of South Africa (RSA) declared about acquisition of 2,6% stocks of Mail.ru web portal for $26 mln. Thus, the total Mail.ru price was estimated at $1 bln, and Naspers stake in this company has increased by 33%. According to the report of Naspers Limited, for the first half of 2007 the monthly audience of Internet web portal has increased from 29,7 mln to 35,3 mln people, and number of postal service users – from 25,6 mln to 30,7 mln.

Public corporation “Rostecnology” will work on the basis of self-financing, reported the press-service of “Rosoboronexport” yesterday. As it is said in the report, it will function “on the principle of breakeven activity”. The new public corporation is created on the basis of state enterprise “Rosoboronexport” and will not demand investment of budgetary means. Purpose of its creation is assistance in development, production and export of high-technology industrial products, support of the Russian producer on internal and external markets and investments’ attraction to the industry.