Why Russia?

• Actually Russia possesses 10—12 % of world’s scientific potential. The abundance of High-Tech R&D specialists is due in large part to Russia’s history in the former Soviet Union. Fueled by the Cold War the Soviets created an extensive, high-quality education system that nurtured tens of thousands of mathematicians, scientists and engineers annually to design weapon systems and other military hardware.

• That’s why Russia has more scientists per capita than Britain, France, Germany, China and India.

• Sales of High-Tech/IT services in export from Russia have doubled annually in recent years.

• There is no shortage of Russian programmers. A study released in June by the Russian IT services professional association reported that the country has at least 250,000 software engineers.

• Moreover, the level of creativity in Russia is one of the highest (according to Harvard Business Review, Feb. 2004).