Russia through the hidden eye

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What are carbon credits and how do they affect the environment

January 25, 2023

Russia is one of the largest emitters of CO2 on the world stage. "Domestic" emissions account for 5% of the total greenhouse gas emissions, according to British Petroleum analysts. The quartet of leaders includes China, the United States, the European Union and India.

The fight against the growing carbon footprint is one of the trends of legislative activity. The greatest resonance was caused by the adoption of cross-border carbon regulation (TUR) by the European Union: now importers are obliged to pay Brussels for exceeding the norm of established emissions generated during the production of imported goods.

Russia played ahead of the curve and took retaliatory measures to stimulate the modernization of industry and preserve capital within the country.

Federal Law No. 296 "On Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions" obliges domestic businesses to calculate and reduce their own carbon footprint within national borders. Companies' inaction will lead to large fines, and the companies themselves are already striving for self-regulation, giving preference to "green" partners and contractors.

How to avoid fines for exceeding the "carbon" limits, get into the plus and create the image of a "green" company? This is told by an expert of the domestic ESG service "Save the Forest", which is developing on the basis of the Skolkovo technopark.

Climate projects

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The most understandable and obvious way. The company implements a set of measures aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of business processes. The integration of new equipment, technologies or design solutions leading to the reduction or compensation of emissions is the implementation of a climate project.

Its result is carbon units – a measure of measuring the effect, equal to one ton of CO2 equivalent. The project documentation, after appropriate checks, is sent to the Register of Carbon Units (a database of initiatives to reduce emissions).

After the implementation of the set of measures, a special commission verifies the results and credits carbon units to the company – they will be deducted from the total carbon footprint of the organization, which reduces the likelihood of administrative punishment.


Carbon trades / Credits
But the company does not necessarily have to implement such projects independently. Carbon units can be produced by a third–party contractor - and put up for specialized auctions. The average cost of a ton of CO2 equivalent in Russia is 1 thousand rubles.

Buying such a "currency" is a universal tool that allows companies to improve their reporting and avoid sanctions. The domestic market of carbon units, created in the fall of 2022, is the main event in the country's sustainable development agenda of recent decades.

Decarbonization technologies, the use of which allows to obtain carbon units, can be divided into three types – prevention, capture and compensation.


Prevention of emissions
The vital activity of many enterprises is ensured by burning fossil fuels – for example, fuel oil or coal. Such energy carriers are the main driver of CO2 emissions. Renewable energy sources can be used to reduce the carbon footprint.

Wind turbines and solar panels are the most "recognizable" decarbonization technologies. It was on the basis of solar panels that the company Dalenergoinvest LLC produced and sold the first carbon units on the domestic market.

Another tool in the arsenal of enterprises is energy efficiency. The construction of ergonomic heat exchange systems makes it possible to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels even on outdated equipment. The "carriers" of the technology here are qualified design teams and computer modeling.


Capturing emissions
If many generations of engineers are familiar with prevention technologies, then emissions capture is a new science–intensive direction. A vivid illustration is the projects of SIBUR, which has begun to introduce technologies for the purification and processing of CO2.

Emissions – derived from the vital activity of petrochemical enterprises – can be "collected" by special devices. Further, the carbon is subjected to technological processing – for further use in medicine, metallurgy and the food industry.


Emissions compensation
Finally, one of the main tools of cost–effective decarbonization is emission compensation projects. Companies invest in the restoration of forest cover, allowing thousands of planted trees to reduce the load on the atmosphere from their own business processes.

Photosynthesis, familiar to everyone from the school curriculum, is the main "technology" of such decarbonization: carbon processing by planted plants requires minimal costs from the investor.

However, it is a mistake to believe that any forest planting is a path to carbon units: forest restoration is regulated by dozens of industry standards, non–compliance with which will lead to damage to the environment, and not to its salvation.

Despite the apparent simplicity, every hectare planted has months of work by project teams, making sure that the new forest on the map of Russia ensures the sustainable conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.

It is important to note that reforestation projects are popular not only in industry, but also among non-manufacturing organizations. For example, the Moscow Stock Exchange invested in planting more than 20 thousand trees at the end of 2022, maintaining its reputation as one of the most responsible domestic corporations.

Such initiatives – implemented both independently and by third–party contractors - not only reduce the risks of penalties, but also have a positive impact on the rating dynamics of the business, opening the way to new sources of financing and demand among customers and counterparties.

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Rostelecom has created a secure digital space in schools of the Nizhny Novgorod region

26.01.2023

Rostelecom has completed the federal project "Digital Educational Environment" in state educational institutions of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In two years, the company has created a communications infrastructure, organized wireless broadband Internet access and connected a video surveillance system in 579 schools in the region.

160 schools in Nizhny Novgorod and 419 in the region participated in the project. To connect digital services, the company has built a structured cabling system inside 687 buildings. Rostelecom specialists laid a cable in 21,570 premises and installed over 22,000 pieces of equipment. All classrooms are equipped with Wi-Fi access points.

2,687 surveillance cameras help to ensure security in schools. They are installed at the entrances to educational institutions. The recordings are stored on the DVR for 31 days. This year, the devices are planned to be integrated with the "Safe City" agro-industrial complex.

By the beginning of the project, the technological basis for connecting digital services was already ready: Rostelecom has been building optical communication channels to educational institutions since 2019 under the state program for socially significant facilities, including schools, and under the federal project "Unified Data Transmission Network".

Evgeny Petrov, Vice President, Director of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch:

"The Digital Educational Environment is the largest project in the field of education. Its scale is impressive — a huge number of objects, a lot of rooms and devices. The company's specialists laid over 1,600 kilometers of cable, combined local area networks with the ESPD, installed and configured tens of thousands of pieces of equipment — it was a very time-consuming and human-resource process. As a result, Rostelecom has created a secure digital space in most schools in the region."

Stable Internet coverage is organized in all classes. Projectors, laptops and any other digital equipment are now easily connected via Wi-Fi. Teachers can easily access the network from their devices anywhere in the school from any device.

"Thanks to the Digital Educational Environment project, rural and urban schools of the Nizhny Novgorod region have received equal opportunities in using the latest information technologies. Stable high-speed Internet ensures the availability of various online services in the classroom, makes the learning process more technological, interesting and diverse. The digital world in the field of education is becoming a reality. We can say with confidence that it will be comfortable for children, teachers, and parents," said Olga Petrova, Minister of Education and Science of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 713-r dated March 22, 2021, Rostelecom was appointed the sole executor of the work on the formation of a sustainable ICT infrastructure in educational organizations. Work on the Digital Educational Environment project was carried out in the Nizhny Novgorod Region from 2021 to 2022. It has also been implemented in 23 other regions of the Russian Federation: Altai, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Perm Territories, the republics of Bashkortostan, Dagestan and Tatarstan, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Moscow, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov, Sakhalin, Sverdlovsk, Tula, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk Regions, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and St. Petersburg.

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VTB: Russians have become a quarter more likely to use digital cards

25.01.23 12:22
Results of 2022

The number of transactions on VTB digital cards in 2022 increased by 25% compared to last year and reached 60 million transactions, - the press service of the credit institution reports, - on average, the user of such cards makes about 20 transactions per month.

The total amount of spending by VTB customers on digital cards in 2022 exceeded 63 billion rubles, an increase of 22% year-on-year. Mir virtual cards became the driver of turnover growth: during the year, the bank's customers paid for purchases and services worth over 42 billion rubles with them, which is 8.4 times higher than last year. The volume of transactions on digital cards of other payment systems is expected to have halved.

At the end of the year, the number of transactionally active digital cards increased by 40%. On average, spending on one such card per month is about 16 thousand rubles," the report says.

"Over the past year, the payment infrastructure has adapted to the new working conditions. The withdrawal of international payment systems from the Russian market has accelerated the development of the national Mir card and domestic services, including Mir Pay, which allows you to pay with a smartphone. Therefore, the demand for digital cards in 2022 not only did not decrease, but also increased significantly. VTB has multiplied both the portfolio of issued virtual cards and its growth rate. This year, according to our estimates, the dynamics of demand for the product will decrease slightly: they are perpetual and do not need to be reissued, cannot be lost or stolen. At the same time, the turnover on digital cards will continue to grow: according to our forecasts, it will increase by 15-20% over the year," comments Ksenia Andreeva, head of the Debit Cards and Accounts Department at VTB.

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Rosatom Company presented Smart City technologies in Turkmenistan

25.01.2023
Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions (RIR, part of Rosatom State Corporation) took part in the Turkmen-Russian Business Forum held in Ashgabat on January 19-20. The panel sessions discussed cooperation in the field of transport and logistics, industry, education, digital agenda and other areas. Within the framework of the event, cooperation in the field of innovative and information technologies was discussed, among other things.

The Russian delegation was headed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Alexey Golubev, CEO of JSC "Digital Platforms and Smart City Solutions" (part of the Rosatom division – JSC "Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions") took part in the event on behalf of Rosatom. He demonstrated the division's developments in the direction of SMART CITY — digital systems for highly efficient management of territories. The company's product portfolio includes solutions for urban management, municipal infrastructure, resource supply and urban economy, tourism and hospitality industry development, interaction with the population, business development, intelligent transport systems and others.

As part of the business program of the forum, a round table "Cooperation in the field of innovative and information technologies, digitalization of the economy" was held. Experts from the two countries exchanged experience in the development of modern digital platforms. One of the focuses of the discussion was the projects and services of the "smart city" – Alexey Golubev's speech aroused responses and keen interest of colleagues.

Within the framework of the forum, Alexey Golubev held meetings with specialists representing the agency "Turkmensvyaz", "High Technology Center", the Department of Information Security and Digital Technologies of the Ashgabat City Hall. The parties built a productive dialogue and discussed possible cooperation.

"Today, Rosatom, represented by its Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions division, is actively developing the Smart City direction. We have gained solid profile experience in implementing various digital projects, our technological solutions have been launched in dozens of cities. And we are happy to share this and offer our competencies for working out tasks and projects in accordance with international Smart City standards. Our IT products act as reliable assistants in the development of territories. I would like to emphasize that as a digital company we adhere to an important principle of cooperation, which allows us to implement a comprehensive digital transformation. Today's event and meetings are another step on this path. Separately, I would like to note the professionalism of colleagues from the ANO "Digital Economy" and thank them for their cooperation," said Alexey Golubev.

For the debut concept of an innovative city in Turkmenistan, the company is ready to offer a set of solutions under the control of a unified information system. "One of our solutions – "Smart Lean Region" is designed for centralized collection and storage of information about the vital activity of the territory for the prompt adoption of correct management approaches based on objective data. "Intelligent transport systems" increase road safety, efficiency of road complex management. In addition, our product portfolio includes solutions for the digital transformation of housing and communal services enterprises," Alexey Golubev stressed.

The Forum is held in order to deepen trade, economic and industrial cooperation between Russia and Turkmenistan. The event was attended by companies from both sides: 220 from Russia, from more than 40 regions, and 110 from Turkmenistan. Among them are enterprises of industry, agriculture, transport, logistics, IT and education.

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The Chamber of Commerce and industry of the Russian Federation has established a Council for the Development of the Closed-cycle Economy and Ecology
12/29/2022

On December 22, 2022, a meeting of the Board of the CCI of the Russian Federation was held, at which it was decided to abolish the Committee of the CCI of the Russian Federation for Nature Management and Ecology and the Committee of the CCI of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Closed-cycle Economy and create on the basis of the abolished committees the Council of the CCI of the Russian Federation for the Development of the closed-cycle economy and Ecology.

Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VIII convocation Andrey Lugovoy has been appointed Chairman of the new Council of the CCI of the Russian Federation.

"I thank the members of the committees for the active work that you conducted at the site of public formations, and I invite you to take part in the work of the created Council," said the President of the CCI of the Russian Federation Sergey Katyrin at a meeting of the Board of the CCI of the Russian Federation.

Those wishing to become a member of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Closed Cycle Economy and Ecology must submit an application for consideration by January 20, 2023 by filling out an online form at the link: https://forms .yandex.ru/cloud/63a94766f47e7342f8202d07/.

The composition of the Council will be approved at the first meeting in 2023.

Department of Regional Development, A.Tsepa

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CARBON CREDIT HAS BECOME THE NEW CURRENCY

Davidson Cheng
16 Jan 2022 # Energy # Transport
The international community has recognized the carbon credit as a new currency. Carbon credits will be spent on carbon-intensive activities, such as driving gasoline-powered cars. It will be possible to earn credits by recycling waste and eco-friendly activities. People are already starting to trade carbon credits — on a par with ordinary money and cryptocurrency.
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Countries united in communities and unions (such as the remains of the European Union) will try to solve the problem of illegal migrants by marking legal citizens and controlling the movement of people in public places. This will reduce the number of crimes committed in public places, but will create underground areas and camps for such migrants, there will be a market for trading stolen and fake markers that people will learn to transfer.

More than 100 video surveillance cameras will be connected to the "Forest Guard" system in the Nizhny Novgorod region

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According to the Ministry of Forestry of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in 2023, more than 100 video surveillance cameras will be installed in the region to fix and prevent forest fires. Thanks to timely video monitoring, most of the fires in the forests can be localized within a day.

Thanks to modern technologies, 65 forest fires were extinguished in 2022 on an area of about 12 thousand hectares, 97% of which were eliminated in the first day.

A Forest Fire Monitoring Center has been established in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and video surveillance cameras have been integrated into a single system. With the help of the Forest Guard information system, the fire source is automatically detected, which makes it possible to send emergency personnel to eliminate it in a short time.

In addition, forest fires are detected through space monitoring, forest patrolling by drones and air patrol by aircraft.
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is a permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union. It started functioning on February 2, 2012.
The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic Commission is to ensure the conditions for the functioning and development of the EAEU, to develop proposals for the further development of integration.
23.01.2023
Address of the Chairman of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the heads of the EAEU member States on the occasion of Russia's chairmanship in the Union bodies in 2023

Since January 1, 2023, Russia has assumed the chairmanship of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
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Our close integration has become a worthy response to global problems, such as poverty, climate change, and scarcity of resources, including the most important of them – food, water, and energy, which have worsened due to the pandemic and the use of illegitimate sanctions by a number of countries. It is obvious that the Union has every opportunity to become one of the powerful, independent, self-sufficient poles of the emerging multipolar world, to be the center of attraction for all independent states that share our values and seek cooperation with the Eurasec.

Of course, we will do everything possible to promote further deepening of integration in all areas - in the political, economic, industrial, financial and technological spheres. In this regard, we consider it expedient to jointly assess the implementation of the current "Strategic Directions for the development of the Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025" and this year begin preparing new long-term planning documents that will determine the main vectors of integration cooperation for the period up to 2030 and 2045.

It is obvious that one of the most important strategic priorities of joint work should be the development of the technological potential of the Eurasec member countries, the achievement of genuine independence and self-sufficiency in this area. We propose to combine efforts in the development and implementation of advanced scientific and technical solutions in leading sectors of the economy, such as the automotive and chemical industries, transport engineering, microelectronics, aircraft, shipbuilding, pharmaceuticals, digital ecosystems, alternative energy, agricultural engineering, biotechnology and seed production.

Also on the agenda is the intensification of cooperation in the field of digital transformation. In particular, the launch of the Integrated Eurasec Information System and supranational product circulation monitoring systems will allow identifying and removing unsafe and low-quality goods from the Union market. It is necessary to accelerate the process of coordinated introduction of electronic legally significant document circulation in the Member States of the Union, providing legal and technological conditions for mutual recognition of such documents. It is important that digital technologies and solutions in the field of economic activity are implemented in all Eurasec countries on the basis of common principles and approaches, which it is advisable to consolidate by a separate act of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.
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I would like to note that the Eurasec traditionally occupies a leading position in the energy sector. Of course, the work on creating common energy markets should continue on a systematic and verified basis. Possession of the most advanced technologies for the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes will allow us to confidently solve the problem of energy transition.

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The urgent task is to consistently reduce the economic risks that the use of foreign currencies and payment systems creates for mutual trade. We proceed from the fact that an essential condition for stable settlement relations within the Union is the connection of partners to the Bank of Russia's Financial Message Transmission System and the development of intersystem interaction of national payment systems. The harmonization of financial markets should create favorable conditions for the capital of the member countries to remain within the association and be invested in national economies. In addition, we consider it expedient to explore the possibility of establishing a Eurasian Rating Agency that would provide assessment tools for servicing the growing economic activity in our macro-region.

Further deepening of integration cooperation will largely depend on the alignment of competitive conditions for the enterprises of the Union, including through the convergence of tax regulation, the introduction of advanced methods of tax administration, as well as the unification of customs procedures with the use of a risk management system at our external borders.

And, of course, we will continue to work on the formation of a new transport and logistics infrastructure that fully meets modern economic realities. Of particular importance today is the development of seamless, secure international transport corridors linking the Eurasec member states.

Further deepening of integration cooperation will largely depend on the alignment of competitive conditions for the enterprises of the Union, including through the convergence of tax regulation, the introduction of advanced methods of tax administration, as well as the unification of customs procedures with the use of a risk management system at our external borders.

And, of course, we will continue to work on the formation of a new transport and logistics infrastructure that fully meets modern economic realities. Of particular importance today is the development of seamless, secure international transport corridors linking the Eurasec member states.

One of the key aspects of integration cooperation is the training of qualified personnel and the creation of new jobs. The Eurasian labor market should meet the large-scale tasks of developing high-tech industries, introducing digital technologies into production processes. In this regard, it is important to strive for the harmonization of national scientific and technical programs, the development of common educational and professional standards, the launch of joint training programs and common textbooks on technical and humanitarian disciplines. The practice of inter university internships and academic exchanges should also be developed.[...]
The Cabinet of Ministers will coordinate with the business a roadmap for the development of AI in the near future

30.12.2022
As part of the implementation of the sixth roadmap for the development of artificial intelligence, the federal government will conclude a cooperation agreement with business representatives. According to the assurance of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, the signing of the agreement will take place after the New Year holidays.

Speaking of the implementation of high-tech roadmaps, the first Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Andrei Belousov and Dmitry Chernyshenko have already signed an agreement on cooperation with leading domestic companies and state corporations. Thus, according to TASS, contracts have been concluded with Rostec and Rostat state corporations, as well as the provider Rostelecom, KNS Group (part of X Holding), Russian Railways, 1C and VK.

Earlier iot.ru He said that the digital transformation strategies of the new Russian regions – the DPR, the LPR, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions – will be approved by the end of 2023. The corresponding instruction to the heads of digital transformation of federal and regional executive authorities was given by Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko following the results of the last meeting of the Coordination Center this year.

The card of a resident of the Samara region has become the key to a "smart" intercom

January 24, 2023
The digital project "Map of a resident of the Samara region" has been implemented in the region since 2021. With this compact tool, cardholders get access to a number of services and services. It simultaneously serves as financial instruments, a medical policy, gives the right to discounts in partner retail chains and not only, reports sovainfo.ru

According to Andrey Volkov, a representative of the Digital Service company in the Volga region, in order to connect the "key" service, it is necessary to have a "smart" intercom at the address of residence. Currently, there are 2,800 such devices installed in Samara. (Photo - card.samregion.ru)
Industry 4.0
The world around us is changing faster and faster. Speed is a key variable of changes, and we stop keeping up with them. In Industry 4.0, we don't tell things what to do: things communicate with each other and begin to dictate new rules of the game to us. The fourth industrial revolution has already begun, and very soon we will live in a world of new technologies, connections, values and meanings. What will they be like?

This trend is about how to navigate these global changes and have time to find your place in a new time: the time of machines.

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Robots and genomic selection: what the Russian agro-industrial complex of the future looks like

HSE researchers have identified technologies in the field of agriculture that will determine the development of the industry in the future. The list includes five technologies

What's going on
Researchers at the HSE Institute of Agricultural Research have studied which technologies will help in the development of agriculture in Russia. To do this, they analyzed the global trends of private investment in technological innovations, and also conducted a survey among representatives of domestic corporations in order to find out what innovations they plan to invest in in the future.

Digital technologies and the Internet of things, agrobiotechnologies, plant protection and animal health biotechnologies, synthetic biology, robots, automated machinery, new food products and farming systems - vertical and container farms — will have the most impact on the development of the agro-industrial complex (AIC).

Business representatives are interested in investments and cooperation with the state in the scientific and technical field of agriculture.

Due to unstable business conditions and a short planning horizon, manufacturers use proven and widely used technologies in the world, and also strive not to become leaders, but to maintain the positions already achieved.

What does it mean
According to Agroexport, the export of the Russian agro-industrial complex in 2021 amounted to $37.1 billion, which is 21% higher than in 2020. During the year, Russia supplied more than 71 million tons of food products and agricultural raw materials.

Futurology
How will the Russian agricultural industry develop in the coming years
Among the technologies that are used in agriculture today, the following can be distinguished. Digital technologies and sensors, thanks to which agronomists receive information about the state of the soil, plants and weather. This is necessary to determine when to sow, water and fertilize.

In addition, algorithms and robotic equipment are used in the Russian agro-industrial complex. For example, the Agronaut company has developed a technology that regulates the dose of fertilizers for different areas of the field. Cherkizovo Group has built Russia's first robotic factory for the production of smoked sausage. Now 150 people work there instead of 700.
A VR laboratory has been opened in a Russian university

26.01.2023
On the Day of Russian Students, Rosagroleasing opened another virtual reality laboratory at the country's leading agricultural university. At the K.A. Timiryazev Russian State Agricultural Academy, the company has equipped a specialized exhibition auditorium equipped with modern computers with connected virtual and augmented reality helmets.

The educational space was opened on the basis of the Department of Tractors and Automobiles of the V.P. Goryachkin Institute of Mechanics and Power Engineering of the Timiryazev Academy. It is intended for teaching students and schoolchildren within the framework of interdisciplinary connections and project activities – groups of students will be able to independently create VR applications.

In addition, the complex includes a digital laboratory "Digital Tractor". This is an educational and research platform where interactive stands and virtual simulators are used to develop students' competencies in the development, repair and maintenance of tractors and other agricultural machinery. Students will have the opportunity to simulate various work situations, while maintaining absolute safety during experiments.

In addition, units and aggregates of modern agricultural machinery are presented in the classroom for the organization of practical classes.

This is the second auditorium opened with the support of Rosagroleasing at the Timiryazev Academy, with which several joint cases aimed at supporting agricultural education have already been developed."

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Digital Education Renewal: On the Way to a Smart School - HSE Open Seminar on Education

The digital renewal of general education began several decades ago and continues today: it is a process of changes in the work of the school (the goals and content of education, the educational environment, the learning process, the management of the educational organization and the entire system), which takes place in a developing digital environment.

Schools are moving along the path of digital renewal at different rates and are at different stages of this process. Stages are groups of states in which individual schools are located. At each stage, different ideas about the possible/desired future are formed in school communities, which is reflected in their development programs.

At the seminar, we will discuss the idea of a smart school as the desired result of digital renewal. The results of monitoring the digital transformation of education are used to assess the process at the federal level.

Let's consider three scenarios for the development of education and how each of them affects the development of individual digital technologies in school.

Speaker:
Alexander Uvarov, Professor at the HSE Institute of Education, Leading Researcher at the A.I. Berg Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Informatics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences

Debaters:
Lyudmila Bosova, Professor, Corresponding Member of the RAO, Head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of Moscow State University, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation.

Grigory Vodopyan, Deputy Director of GBOU School No. 550 of the Central District of St. Petersburg, honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation.

Alexey Semenov, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and RAO, Head of the Department of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, Director of the Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Informatics named after A. I. Berg FITZ IU RAS, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Moderator:
Ivan Karlov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Digital Transformation of Education at the HSE Institute of Education
Heat supply systems were digitalized in Voronezh

smart housing and communal services / 26.01.2023
In Voronezh, Rusatom Infrastructure Solutions has completed the first stage of digitalization of resource supply and urban economy using its own software package "Digital Heat Supply". As a result of the pilot project, a digital database on heat consumption facilities was created, the process of adjusting heat consumption modes in one of Voronezh's microdistricts was automated, and it became possible to monitor and evaluate the quality of face-to-face customer service online. In the future, the results are planned to be replicated to other districts of the city.

The digitalization project is carried out in several directions. In particular, for more effective control over the preparation of buildings for the heating season, digital passports of heat receiving installations (TPU) in apartment buildings and social facilities have been formed. Specialists conducted a technical inspection of the condition of 60 TPU, issued the necessary instructions with the entry of data into an electronic database, which is available in the RSO and the city administration. As a result, instead of paper archives, all data is stored in digital format with the ability to output the necessary analytics, as well as automatic notification of the timing of issued prescriptions.

The "Central Panel" module has also been launched with the display of information in three main sections: the elimination of incidents and emergencies, preparation for the autumn-winter period, work with appeals and complaints from residents of the city. Employees of the branch of PJSC "Quadra" "Voronezh Generation", employees of government bodies and authorized persons have access to the module. Access to information is instantaneous, because all the tools used in the PC "Digital Heat Supply" are built on the basis of WEB technologies.

In the future, in 2023, it is planned to pilot the introduction of the modules "Mode Analysis", "Balance Analysis", which will act not only as an accounting system that allows you to record and display the readings of heat meters, but also as a system for analyzing accumulated data using artificial intelligence elements to identify anomalies in consumption, deviations from the standard temperature, hydraulic mode , etc .
MTS upgraded the video surveillance system in Rasskazovo
on January 25, 2023

MTS has upgraded the digital video surveillance system, which combined the cameras installed on the streets of Rasskazovo, Tambov region, into a single information center. A fiber-optic network of several dozen devices was created as part of the Safe City program, the MTS website reports.

The updated system works at two smart stops, on central city streets, and also controls security at the entrance to the city. In addition, an existing pedestrian projection crosswalk with recognition function is integrated into the system. Smart Transition as a pilot project was launched in the city in October 2021.

Currently, there are more than 30 CCTV cameras in Rasskazovo, this year their number will grow to 50.

The entire high-definition video stream from IP cameras is broadcast directly to the police station on duty, as well as to the Unified Duty and Dispatch Service of the city administration. Dispatchers have round-the-clock access to all installed cameras in real time. Thus, the system allows you to track the events taking place online, and the recordings from the cameras will help to quickly disclose offenses, for example, theft or damage to property.

"Digital technologies allow optimizing urban resources and developing infrastructure, making public spaces safer and more comfortable for work and recreation of citizens. In the lens of video cameras — the busiest streets, dangerous intersections and access roads. In addition, all cameras are installed at the right height, at a certain viewing angle, so there are practically no "blind spots" in the system. Thus, the video surveillance system takes care of the residents of the city and city property," said Svyatoslav Koshurnikov, Director of MTS in the Tambov region.

The city administration plans to scale the project in 2023 and further increase both the number of connected video cameras and expand the functionality of the video surveillance system based on artificial intelligence technologies. This will allow us to solve even more tasks within the framework of the "Safe City" projects on the basis of the already existing system.
(Photo - MTS website)

Ministry of Education and Science of Russia
https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/press-center/news/nauka/63525 /
In 2022, more than 1.6 billion rubles were allocated to support world-class scientific and educational centers of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia

January 27/The science
Today, there are 15 world-class scientific and educational centers (RECs) in Russia, uniting about 600 different participants in 36 regions of our country. In 2022, more than 1.6 billion rubles were allocated for their support.

World-class scientific and educational centers are innovative platforms that unite educational and scientific organizations with business. Their goal is to build a modern model of research and development for the technological development of the country.

The creation and development of REC is carried out within the framework of the national project "Science and Universities" implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. At the moment, RECs unite 36 subjects of the Russian Federation, 9 centers are interregional.

REC activities
Among the participants of the REC are 145 universities, 140 scientific organizations, 319 organizations of the real sector of the economy. From January to December 2022, 1,963 patents for inventions were obtained, more than 18 thousand scientific articles were prepared. More than 550 technologies have been developed and transferred for implementation into production in organizations operating in the real sector of the economy. 4,578 new high-tech jobs have been created, 6.5 thousand people have completed training in competence development centers for managers of scientific, scientific and technical projects and laboratories in the interests of regional development. More than 17 billion were attracted to the implementation of REC activity programs.

The activities of the centers are versatile and diverse. Thus, RECs carry out work in the field of biotechnology, medicine and healthcare, technology for ensuring social stability, ecology and rational use of natural resources, advanced digital technologies and innovative production, intelligent transport systems and aerospace, new materials and energy, and in many other industries, the achievement of leadership in which should provide a socio-economic breakthrough in the development of the subjects of our countries.

Drifting weather stations

In 2022, scientists of the REC "Moreagrobiotech" (the federal city of Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea), within the framework of the project "Development and transfer of technologies of the marine Internet of Things, environmental and climate monitoring", finalized a prototype of marine autonomous measuring buoys.

Drifting weather stations are small—sized measuring platforms that provide regular observations in the near-surface atmosphere, on the surface and in the ice thickness, in open sea areas and in the water column under the ice. The weather stations are adapted to the conditions of the Arctic region and will update the routes of ships along the Northern Sea Route online.

Drifting weather stations allow you to receive a variety of information, including data on water and air temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, thickness of snow and ice cover, direction of ice drift. All this via satellite will be available to specialists almost immediately. The operator has the ability to addressedly set the discreteness of measurements and information transmission from a few minutes to a day, put the buoys into standby mode, activate them again. The introduction of such technology will significantly improve the efficiency of hydrometeorological monitoring in the Arctic.

Scientists of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AII) are working on the scientific project together with Sevastopol State University and an industrial partner.

Seven weather stations are already operating, 42 more will be opened in 2023. By 2024, 49 such stations will operate in northern waters.

The devices themselves were developed and manufactured by a Russian company together with scientists from Sevastopol State University.

"The hydrometeorological observation network in the Arctic based on Russian drifting buoys is of the most important both applied and scientific importance. The introduction of such technology will significantly improve the efficiency of hydrometeorological monitoring in the Arctic," said Sergey Motyzhev, Chief Researcher of the Marine Observation Systems Research Institute of Sevastopol State University.

Spacecraft — to help environmentalists

The Kuzbass-300 spacecraft, the first satellite launched into space in the history of the region, was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome as part of the project "Innovative Technologies ensuring a high level of ecology" of the Kuzbass REC (Kemerovo Region). It was developed by schoolchildren of Kemerovo, students and scientists of the Kuzbass State Technical University (KuzSTU) on the satellite platform of the company "SPUTNIX".

Kuzbass-300 has entered a predetermined orbit — about 600 km above the Earth. The satellite equipment will transmit telemetry data, voice messages, as well as photos from the camera to the Earth. The size of the Kuzbass satellite is 340x100x100 mm . 14 solar panels, a rechargeable battery, a camera, a camera orientation system in the direction of the Earth with an accuracy of one degree are fixed on the case. The device can operate in the temperature range from -100 to +150 °C.

With the help of a satellite based on the Mission Control Center of KuzSTU, schoolchildren and students of the region carry out remote sensing of the Earth as part of environmental monitoring of the territory of Kuzbass.

Virtual models of oil and gas fields

Participants of the Perm REC "Rational Subsoil Use" are developing technologies to increase the oil recovery coefficient for hard-to-recover reserves. To do this, they created the software "Engineering Simulator of technological processes", which will allow modeling the movements of multiphase flows during the extraction, collection and transportation of hydrocarbons. With its help, both static hydraulic calculations and dynamic ones can be carried out.

"An engineering simulator is a domestic development that allows replacing, and in some cases surpassing, foreign analogues of software used in the fuel and energy complex. This is especially relevant in the context of the formation of technological sovereignty and unprecedented geopolitical pressure faced by the industry. The software package is based on the most advanced information technologies, including the use of big data and predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, 3D modeling and VR technologies. Thanks to this, the software can be used for a wide range of tasks, such as static and dynamic analysis, accounting for possible complications and ways to overcome them. The simulator also acts as an effective simulator that helps engineers to work out practical skills in regular and emergency situations," says Pavel Ilyushin, Director of the ANO REC "Rational Subsoil Use".

With the help of the software product, virtual models of oil and gas fields are created, the real design of wells and linear pipelines is taken into account. The software has already been put into commercial operation at LUKOIL-PERM LLC.

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Russia has presented a Mid-term voluntary national review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework Program
January 25, 2023

The website of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction contains a Mid-term voluntary national Review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework Program (PSA) for Disaster Risk Reduction for 2015-2030, prepared by the Russian Federation based on the results of 2022. Specialists of the VNII GOChS participated in its development. A similar document is presented by more than 50 countries, including: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, USA and others.

The purpose of preparing such reviews is to summarize the annual results of the implementation of the program, assess the results achieved and identify emerging problems in disaster risk prevention and reduction. This makes it possible to determine the directions for priority and comprehensive international, national and local cooperation and further actions in the period from 2023 to 2030 for sustainable development, taking into account emerging risks.

In the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia is preparing a mid-term voluntary national review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework Program. The department's partners in this matter are the State Research Institute of GOCHS, Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev, the Educational and Methodological Center of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

This mid-term voluntary national review is the first experience of a comprehensive voluntary assessment of the status and progress of achieving the global targets of the Sendai Framework Program in the Russian Federation.

The published Mid-term Voluntary National Review of the Russian Federation consists of four chapters: analysis and management of emergency risks, the activities of the national platform for disaster risk reduction, investment in order to reduce the risk of emergencies, preparedness to respond and restore resilience after emergencies. They reflect the status of issues in priority areas of disaster risk reduction. Each chapter describes the activities carried out and the results achieved in the Russian Federation on the way to achieving the global targets of the Sendai Framework Program.

It is worth noting that in accordance with Russian legislation, the term "emergency" is used instead of the term "disaster" in the mid-term voluntary national review.

The collection and analysis of national indicators for the implementation of the Sendai Framework Program is entrusted by the decision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia to the GOCHS Research Institute, acting as its national coordinator.

"The results of the analysis of the values of indicators for the implementation of seven global PSA tasks in the Russian Federation over the past 8 years demonstrate the effectiveness of the functioning of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Platform based on the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Natural and Man—made Emergencies (RSChS)," the Voluntary National Report of the Russian Federation says.

The review indicates that most of the indicators for the implementation of global targets and priority areas for the implementation of the PSA are laid down in the main strategic planning documents of the Russian Federation in the field of protection of the population and territories from emergency situations, as well as in federal legislation. Positive dynamics is observed for each of the seven indicators of the implementation of global targets in Russia.

Thus, in the Russian Federation, an emergency risk assessment is mandatory for potentially dangerous objects, territories of subjects and municipalities. Specialized information systems, services, and technologies have been created, operated, and are constantly being developed. The country is developing areas of interaction with civil society, non-profit organizations on emergency prevention and risk assessment.

Actively and successfully at the state level, such a direction as "Investments in disaster risk reduction measures in order to strengthen the counteraction potential" is being implemented - the State program "Protection of the population, territories from emergency situations, ensuring fire safety and human safety on water bodies" has been approved and funded. Similar programs in the field of life safety have been approved and are being funded at the regional and municipal levels. Public-private partnership in the field of life safety is developing. In order to increase disaster preparedness and ensure effective response and the introduction of the principle of "make it better than it was" in the recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities, emergency response forces have been created and are in constant readiness. Techniques and technologies of emergency prevention, emergency notification, public awareness, emergency response are being developed. Codes of rules and national standards have been developed and put into effect in the field of priority life support of the population in emergencies, construction, public safety, buildings and structures.

FOR REFERENCE
Currently, the global approach to disaster risk reduction is based on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for 2015-2030, adopted at the III World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in March 2015 in Sendai (Miyagi Prefecture, Japan). The Sendai Framework Program, as a framework document, has identified four priority areas of action for the entire world community in the field of disaster risk reduction for the next 15 years. It also names seven global targets, which are measured by 38 indicators.

Priority areas include: understanding disaster risk, improving the organizational and legal framework for disaster risk management, investing in disaster risk reduction measures to strengthen resilience, improving disaster preparedness to ensure effective response, and implementing the principle of "do better than it was" in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

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The first agrotechnopark will be created in the Urals in 2023

16.11.2022
Ural Agrarian State University (USAU) announced its decision to create the first agrotechnopark in the district next year. The purpose of the innovation structure is to integrate science and entrepreneurship, ensuring the transfer of new technologies to the agro–industrial complex and forming an effective motivational system for the development of small and medium-sized businesses.

As explained to TASS in the USAU, the agrotechnopark is planned to be organized on the territory of the university educational and experimental farm in the Beloyarsk district of the Sverdlovsk region. It is assumed that a new farm with the use of modern digital technologies in animal husbandry will also appear on the territory of the park.

"The creation of a modern agrotechnopark in the region is a huge step in the development of both the university and the agricultural sector. In modern realities, this is a necessary step forward, since it is a timely transfer of new technologies to production," the publication quoted the words of the rector of the USAU Olga Loretz quoted in the message.

Earlier iot.ru he talked about the scientific center for the introduction of advanced technologies in agriculture, which was announced in Russia. The decree on the establishment of this center has already been signed by the Chairman of the Federal Government Mikhail Mishustin.

How water supply is digitalized in Russia on the example of MegaFon's IoT solution

smart housing and communal services / monitoring / digitalization / MegaFon/12/30/2022

Online water monitoring automates the accounting of consumption of this type of resources and allows you to quickly monitor the utility networks of the water utility, ensuring the connection of all devices and sensors to a single platform. Analysts' forecasts indicate how promising this direction is, according to which the domestic market of digital water utilities may grow to 50 billion rubles by 2028. Below we will consider the IoT platform for online water monitoring from MegaFon as one of the most successful digital solutions for resource-supplying organizations today.

What MegaFon offers
As told in MegaFon, the prerequisites for the creation of its own IoT platform for online water monitoring (OMV) were the following:
- high debt to organizations in the housing and utilities sector, which exceeded 1 trillion rubles with an annual turnover of the entire market of 4.6 trillion rubles;
- a high percentage of water losses due to leaks, estimated on average in the country at 22%;
- low discipline of subscribers in transmitting readings (approximately 30-40% of users do not transmit readings from metering devices or send understated data);
- illegal connections to water supply and sanitation networks;
- the existence of about 20,000 water utilities in the country in need of modernization, digitalization, increasing investment attractiveness and efficiency of investment use.

OMV from MegaFon is a comprehensive solution in the form of high-level software that can work with a large number of connected metering devices and various sensors to automate commercial and technical accounting of resources, prevent theft and emergency situations.

The solution consists of components such as:
- automatic data collection system from metering devices;
- pressure monitoring;
- temperature monitoring;
- monitoring of flooding of wells and thermal chambers;
- hatch opening control;
- management of pumping stations;
- boiler room management;
- operational remote control systems (ODS);
- visualization of water supply and heat supply systems;
- analytics.

For the operation of these components, MegaFon offers equipment with a long (up to 10 years) battery life of data collection and transmission devices and a high network capacity (more than 50 thousand devices per base station). At the same time, the company guarantees secure data transmission over its communications infrastructure and its own distributed data storage system.

Also important is the software of the IoT platform for online water monitoring with a user-friendly and intuitive interface, which is a single system for devices from various manufacturers with the ability to administer accounting objects, data analytics and report generation, dashboards, uploading archived data and setting up emergency alerts. The software is developed by MegaFon and can be used by Russian enterprises to replace foreign solutions under sanctions restrictions. The platform is accessible from any device.

Benefits of using OMV from MegaFon for business
According to the developer company, the IoT platform for online water monitoring increases the revenue of the resource-supplying organization by increasing the share of the paid resource. Thus, the implementation of the solution at the 2050 facilities of the Nizhny Novgorod Vodokanal showed an increase in useful vacation in quantitative terms from 15% to 50% for conscientious and unscrupulous subscribers, respectively.

The implementation took place as follows:
2050 residential apartment buildings serviced by Nizhny Novgorod Vodokanal were equipped with household metering devices;
the devices were equipped with NB-IoT data transfer modems;
all the devices were brought into the OMV platform so that their readings began to be reflected in the vodokanal's personal account.

Along with the increased revenue, the efficiency of resource consumption control has also increased. That's because the inspector now makes the rounds more pointwise to verify the readings. As a result, the cost of controlling the accounting point decreased to 2.5 times.

"Additionally, the vodokanal noted a reduction in the cost of collecting and processing readings in billing. The data is automatically transferred to billing, where the payment is calculated," MegaFon added.

Nizhny Novgorod Vodokanal also noted the following benefits in expanding the introduction of smart devices and sensors:
- reduction of technical losses;
- getting a transparent consumption balance;
- timely notification of emergency events;
- constant access to statistics for any period.

Speaking of analytics: another additional functionality of the solution is a recommendation system for water utilities to update accounting nodes based on consumption data, which allows you to increase the useful vacation, and, accordingly, increase the profit of the water utility.

"The solution was developed on the basis of the Nizhny Novgorod Vodokanal case using Big Data and IoT technologies," follows from MegaFon's comment. – Based on the data collected from the communal metering devices of apartment buildings serviced by the vodokanal, the system segments subscribers into groups of houses and forms consumption profiles. Next, the system compares the consumption of each house with the corresponding profile of its group. The difference in the result of the comparison makes it possible to identify critical discrepancies and prioritize objects for modernization."

In the case of the Nizhny Novgorod Water Utility, the system identified 10% of objects with monthly water consumption below 50-100% of the typical consumption of the corresponding profiles during the year. This allowed the company to determine the priority list of objects for modernization – the installation of modern metering devices that increase the accuracy of measurements. Transparency of resource consumption control and the status of accounting points allows resource-supplying enterprises to improve the quality of services provided to the population.

The use of the "Analytics of online water monitoring" module will further increase the useful output of upgraded facilities by 50%, while the payback for the modernization of the metering point will be six months.

Two more important points
The listed advantages of the IoT platform for online water monitoring should also include API and ESG.

The universal API developed by MegaFon specialists ensures the integration of the OMV system with other IT systems and transmits data to the customer's systems.

ESG also provides a balance of environmental, social and commercial interests. Responsible attitude to the environment is achieved through online water monitoring analytics, which accurately determines the resource needs of serviced facilities. In other words, water extraction is planned efficiently, without overspending and loss of this resource.

High social responsibility becomes possible thanks to better provision of services to the population, accident prevention and prompt response to breakdowns.

Finally, the high quality of corporate governance is manifested in the monitoring of facilities with their ranking according to the degree of wear, on the basis of which the vodokanal makes optimal decisions for itself on infrastructure modernization.

In summary, the IoT platform for OMV from MegaFon allows you to manage an enterprise with the help of constant monitoring and analytics, which increase subscriber loyalty and ensure transparency of the process and timely response to accidents and illegal use of the resource.

"A resource-supplying organization in any region can connect to our platform today, because the NB-IoT network from MegaFon is deployed throughout the territory of the Russian Federation. In addition, we understand that the digitalization of RSO is a whole complex of engineering and technical measures, therefore we offer our clients the services of inspection, development of technical solutions, design, selection and supply of equipment, construction, installation and commissioning, maintenance and service support, i.e. we offer a turnkey solution", – emphasized in the megaphone.

We should add that the functionality and efficiency of the IoT platform "Online Water Monitoring" was highly appreciated by the jury of the first professional award in the field of the Internet of Things IoT Awards 2022. MegaFon's solution became the best in the nomination "Big Data, Cloud Computing and IoT Analytics".
Industry 4.0
Deepfakes and piracy: what will happen to technology in Russia in 2023

23.01.2023

Are there opportunities for technology development in the conditions of the crisis and what will the domestic innovation market be like in 2023?
RBC Trends publishes highlights from the RAEC study on technological forecasts for the development of the Runet. The authors of the visionary report: Director of the RAEC Sergey Grebennikov; Director of Analytics of the ANO "Digital Economy" Karen Kazaryan; Chief Analyst of the RAEC Maria Saykina.

Trends in the direction of "Technology"
Generative AI
The mass use of generative models will soon lead to the emergence of new promising areas of their use in various fields: for example, business, art and the entertainment industry.

Deepfakes and virtual doubles
The metaverses have already given a strong impetus to the development of technology. In the near future, their impact on innovation will be difficult to overestimate. Now users are present in virtual spaces in the form of avatars, which are still far from realistic. According to the authors of the study, with the help of deepfakes technology, metaverse developers will be able to completely recreate the images of people in the virtual world.


Biometric identification
Biometric data (fingerprints, digital facial image, etc.) is already being used to obtain government or financial services. For example, to get a passport, you need to take fingerprints. In addition, biometrics is needed for remote exams, remote receipt of an electronic signature, eSIM connection, or fare payment in the Moscow metro.

Import substitution and state assistance
The need for import substitution has led to the fact that domestic business has become in dire need of state support. Companies are offered preferential terms for loans so that they can implement Russian IT solutions quickly and with minimal costs. The state also supports vendors: software developers are provided with grants to accelerate the introduction of new products to the market. Experts hope that these measures will accelerate the emergence of digital services in the country, which will become a worthy replacement for foreign solutions.

Drones
In 2022, state standards were adopted in the field of AI application in road transport. They will start operating in early 2023. The standards were developed within the framework of a promising standardization program in the priority direction "Artificial Intelligence" for the period 2021-2024.

Trends in the direction of "Economy"
IT companies concentrate business and reduce costs
In the conditions of geopolitical uncertainty, according to analysts, we should expect further steps to optimize the business by IT companies. At the same time, new projects are likely to appear both within the country and in friendly countries.

Reorientation to the markets of friendly countries
According to the authors of the study, Russian solutions and services have a high export potential. Thanks to the state support of Russian developers, there are more opportunities for foreign expansion. In addition, the prospect of entering the markets of friendly countries encourages companies to improve their products and solutions.

Increasing the role of platforms
The ecosystem business model is effective not only for companies themselves (it helps to diversify risks), but also for users (receiving a variety of services "in one window"). In addition, the platforms help the development of SMEs: cooperation with them allows you to reduce the costs of doing business and opens access to new markets and categories of buyers. The platform economy "shot up" in 2020 with the beginning of the pandemic and during this time has shown its effectiveness. So in the coming years, its role as one of the main drivers of economic growth will only increase.

Lack of "iron" as a growth limiter
At the moment, there is no decent replacement for foreign electronic goods and components in Russia. While work in this direction is underway, the only possible solution to this problem is parallel import. This is a scheme in which a business is exempt from responsibility for the import of goods without the consent of the copyright holder. However, there are certain difficulties here: logistical problems, suppliers' concerns about possible sanctions, price increases. The shortage of equipment and components is one of the main factors that will have a negative impact on the growth of the IT industry along with the general economic downturn and sanctions pressure.

Information security
In 2022, many foreign players in the field of information security left the Russian market. Therefore, an increase in the number of domestic solutions is expected in the near future. In addition, from 2025, government agencies will be prohibited from using protective equipment from "unfriendly countries".

Futurology
Data Capitalism: who owns information in the modern world
Trends in the "State" direction
The state is the main investor
In recent years, import substitution and Russian software development programs have been actively subsidized by the state. After the sanctions were imposed, additional measures were taken to support the development of domestic solutions.

State technologies
The domestic sphere of GOSTECH is actively developing. For example, Russia ranked 10th in the ranking of digitalization of public administration GovTech Maturity Index 2022 of the World Bank, and also regularly ranks among the countries with a high level of digitalization of the state according to the UN E-Government Survey.

Government data
In May 2022, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced the launch of a project to create a national data lake. A project called Gosdata.the hub will contain depersonalized data that can be used not only by government agencies, but also by companies to solve business problems. To do this, a public contour of the NSUD — datamarket will be created. The project will be launched in test mode in 2023.

A New Look at Digital Financial Assets
Digital financial assets are digital rights, the issuance, accounting and circulation of which are possible only by making (changing) records in an information system based on blockchain. The geopolitical situation forced the state to take a fresh look at the Central Federal District. Under the conditions of sanctions restrictions on cross-border payments, digital financial assets can be used to pay for goods, works, services, intellectual activity, etc.

The importance of IT personnel
In the context of sanctions pressure and the need to create domestic IT solutions within the framework of import substitution, the issue of training specialists for the IT industry is becoming one of the main tasks of the state. In addition, the authorities want to provide IT specialists and programmers with comfortable working conditions in the country.

Trends in the direction of "Society"
Self-employed
During the economic crisis, the importance of self-employment has grown. This employment format allows you to get to work quickly, while providing the necessary flexibility in choosing a schedule or location. In addition, it is a good tool for supporting employees during a period of forced downtime, finding a new job or a temporary decrease in income at their main place of work.

Piracy
According to the authors of the study, the volume of illegal content will grow. The industry's hopes for the protection of Russian content are linked to the "Anti-Piracy Memorandum", which was extended in 2022. However, the memorandum applies only to video and audio content. It does not include, for example, game content or e-books. It is also intended to partially solve the problem by changing the procedure for settlements under license agreements with foreign copyright holders.

Shopping flows to marketplaces
Since the beginning of 2022, a huge number of brands have left Russia. Some of them are still selling leftovers (for example, H&M). The opening of direct sales of the departed brands is not expected in the near future. Nevertheless, these brands may appear on marketplaces. The largest of them will continue to concentrate the audience due to their recognition and ability to offer the best conditions to both suppliers and buyers.

Leaks of personal data
Analysts predict that data leaks and hacker attacks on companies will not become less. As a rule, scammers "hunt" for data. The main "risk zone" includes personal data, credentials, medical information, payment card data.

Import substitution or loopholes for foreign services?
Loopholes for access to foreign services will appear more and more. However, using them, do not forget about security. This is especially true for the use of intermediaries — the demand for such services inevitably attracts the attention of scammers, so it is necessary to carefully approach the choice.

Direction "Industry"
Experts have identified companies that will determine the development of the Internet economy in 2023:
Yandex;
VK;
"Avito";
Telegram;
marketplaces.
The Oryol region has signed a contract with Granit LLC for the supply of software for the implementation of a facial recognition system
January 24, 2023

According to the press service of the regional government, the software was purchased as part of the operation of the hardware and software complex "Safe City". In addition to the software, CCTV cameras, uninterruptible power supplies and switches were purchased to replace outdated worn-out equipment.

According to the contract concluded with Granit LLC, the software must:
provide comparison of the received biometric templates with the biometric templates entered in the database;
perform automatic similarity check of detected persons with persons contained in the search database;
search in the archive database of detected persons; record the recognition results in the event log.

When working in the capture and face recognition mode, the probability of true—positive identification of a person should be at least 50%, the probability of false-positive identification is 0.5%, the time of formation of the recognition result should not exceed 7 seconds from the moment of passing through the control zone.

The software should provide filtering of the stream of detected faces by the source of the incoming video stream, viewing all recognized and detected faces, viewing detailed information on the person selected from the stream from the recognized protocol (image, date of detection, image source and a list of similar faces from the database), working with the archive, as well as creating and editing a database of faces.

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02 February 2023
HOW THE EXPERT COUNCIL HELPED THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT MAKE DECISIONS IN 2022

Many sane people wonder why the government of the Russian Federation makes very controversial decisions that are clearly not good for our country, fitting into the manuals of the "collective Shwab", according to which the "great reset" is being carried out to build a New world Order. What is the scheme for developing government decisions, who prepares them and puts them on the signature of the supervising deputy prime ministers and the Prime Minister? The answer to this non-rhetorical question may explain why Russia is still in the wake of the UN's "sustainable development", which is a long-standing development of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

On December 12, 2022, Government Decree No. 3878-r was issued, which expanded the circle of its Expert Council (EC). Now this supranational institute includes 26 people, most of whom represent the residents of globalists in Russia. The Expert Council is headed by Yaroslav Kuzminov, former HSE Rector and husband of Elvira Nabiullina, as coordinator. Now he has changed his "legend" and is called the "HSE supervisor". As a result of the additions, places in the ES were distributed among representatives of the largest state corporations (7) and banks (3), NGOs (5), as well as liberal educational institutions (10). The only surname that somehow stands out in this list is Evgeny Kaspersky, a graduate of the KGB Higher School, but this background of his seems to have been replaced by digitalization reality.

Bankers:
Gref G.O. – President, Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank PJSC.
Stepashin S.V. – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GC "Fund for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reform".
Shuvalov I.I. – Chairman of GKR "VEB.RF".

Heads of corporations that claimed the title of "transnational" before SMO (the special military operation):
Zubkov V.A. – Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom.
S.V. Alexandrovsky – General Director of PJSC Aeroflot – Russian Airlines.
E.V. Kaspersky – General Director of Kaspersky Lab JSC.
Kovalchuk M.V. – President of the Kurchatov Institute.
Kogogin S.A. – General Director of PJSC "KAMAZ".
M.E. Oseevsky is the President of Rostelecom PJSC.
Frank S.O. – Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC "Modern Commercial Fleet.

Scientists and representatives of scientific institutes:
Z.V. Doguzova – Advisor to the MGIMO Rector's Office.
Krasnikov G.Ya. – President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Komissarov A.G. – at the time of approval - Director General of ANO "Russia is a country of opportunities", now – Rector of RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation.
Mau V.A. – former rector of RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, did not return from Israel.
M.B. Piotrovsky is the General Director of the Hermitage.
Sadovnichy V.A. – Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University".
Sinelnikov-Murylev S.G. – Rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade.
Trubnikov G.V. – Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
Fradkov M.E. – Director of RISI.
Shatalov S.D. – Chief Researcher at the Tax Policy Center of the Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Representatives of ANO and All-Russian public organizations:
Permyakova A.A. – Deputy Head of the ANO Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Kalinin A.S. – President of "Support of Russia".
Katyrin S.N. – President of the CCI of the Russian Federation.
Shmeleva E.V. – Head of the Educational Foundation "Talent and Success".
Shokhin A.N. is the president of the RSPP and at the same time the president of the HSE.

All members of the Expert Council have not only been firmly integrated into the Russian elite for a long time, but also have stable ties abroad. For example, the coordinator of the council, Yaroslav Kuzminov, is closely connected with the World Bank and the IMF, including through his wife, who has been recognized as the "best banker" in Eastern Europe for several years in a row.

The EC is an advisory body that ensures the interaction of the government with the expert community. Among its main functions is the preparation of proposals and information and analytical materials on the achievement of national development goals, the implementation of national projects, state programs, initiatives of socio-economic development of Russia. Given that Russia's national development goals have been "written off" from the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the vectors of which were set by the head of the WEF in Davos, Klaus Schwab, at the end of the last century, the direction of the ES tasks is absolutely clear. At a meeting with members of the council on December 13, 2022, Mikhail Mishustin clarified its functionality:

"The government receives feedback and high-level expertise from it. This allows us to complement our efforts to develop the economy and social sphere. It is more accurate to adjust the decisions already made – taking into account regional or industry specifics. To understand which of the measures should be made more effective."

It is not difficult to understand what "fine-tuning solutions" means in this context.

After the formation of the EC back in December 2021, 25 working groups were created under it, in which more than 900 experts were involved. Moreover, these experts were mainly attracted from departments, corporations and institutions headed by the "leading members" of the council. Such as coordinator Yaroslav Kuzminov, German Gref, Alexander Shokhin and Alexey Komissarov, who replaced Vladimir Mau who was "sick" in Israel.

Coordinator Kuzminov leads the groups: "Family welfare and social policy", "Agriculture and rural development", Vocational education, labor market and migration", "Sociological Research", "Analysis of legislative activities of the Government of the Russian Federation". The head of "Sbera" Gref – groups "Business climate", "Trade and services", "Healthcare". It seems that the groups of Uia "Economic development", "Preschool and general education", "Socio-economic development of regions" have passed to Komissarov.

According to the Prime Minister, said at the meeting on December 13, in 2022, the EC put forward about 750 proposals "to increase the sustainability of the development of the Russian economy in the face of sanctions pressure." "Many of them have become the basis of bills or acts of the government," Mishustin stressed. - Also, the members of the Expert Council took part in evaluating the effectiveness of measures that are provided for by the unified plan for achieving national development goals, our main document. Systematic work has been established with ministries, departments, FOIVAS to prepare proposals for the curator of each of them." I.e., it is openly stated that it is the EC that prepares substrings for all occasions at any level of Russian government and management. By the way, in March 2022, the EC received access to the state automated system "Management", information from which is a state secret. Data from it can be obtained not only for full members of the EC, but also by experts involved by them. Among them, there are probably citizens of foreign countries and connections of the residencies of "unfriendly countries". As an example, one can name an Israeli citizen Mark Agranovich, who is engaged in the educational direction. The composition of experts is easy to check with our competent authorities and this should be done for the new EC in the near future. Here is a concrete example: according to the report for 2022, more than 100 EC initiatives concerned "the formation of a comfortable and safe environment for life." Within the framework of the UN climate agenda and "decarbonization", the list of participants in the experiment on emission quotas was supplemented. It includes almost 30 more cities with a difficult ecological situation in 11 regions of the Russian Federation.

On December 30, the government published instructions for the Expert Council for 2023. In particular, Mishustin ordered that by January 20, 2023, a draft work plan of the Expert Council for 2023, including proposals for the preparation of expert analytical materials on key areas of socio-economic development, be submitted to the Government Office to the curator ES Grigorenko. This document has appeared – it is not yet known, but I would really like to see it.

To be continued…"

Linking mobile numbers to "Public services" will save you from fraudsters

Rosfinmonitoring reported that Russians receive calls and emails on behalf of the department with notifications about money blocking and an offer to withdraw it for a fee. Experts believe that additional regulatory measures are needed to protect subscribers from fraudsters' calls - to require 100% linking of phone numbers to accounts on "Public Services".

02.02.2023

Rosfinmonitoring explains that fraudsters offer to remove restrictions for a fee under various pretexts - to pay a fine, a commission, a service for issuing a "certificate of legalization". "Rosfinmonitoring is not authorized to seize money and other property of citizens, collect mandatory payments, does not provide them with paid services for the registration of legally significant documents, does not send such letters and does not make such calls," the department clarified.

According to representatives of the Tele2 press service, in order to prevent fraudsters from making calls with number substitution, Tele2 operates a traffic verification system, and to combat substitution with other Russian numbering, it has connected to the all-Russian call validation system. "To combat this type of fraud, we actively cooperate with law enforcement agencies that provide information about phone numbers used by attackers. There is no fee charged from subscribers for these anti-fraud activities. The operator is not able to identify specifically the calls allegedly coming from Rosfinmonitoring, since in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the content of calls and SMS refers to the secrecy of communication," the Tele2 press service noted.

Sergey Khrenov, Director of Fraud Prevention and Revenue Loss at MegaFon PJSC, said that the company had not received such requests from subscribers. "We always pay attention to the fight against fraudulent calls. To do this, we verify calls with other major operators, use analytical algorithms to identify suspicious calls, block fraudulent numbers according to lists from the Bank of Russia. For example, in November-December, more than 100 million calls from replacement numbers were blocked," he said.

A representative of the press service of PJSC VimpelCom notes that every day scammers come up with new scenarios of social engineering. "In this situation, we act comprehensively, protecting subscribers from calls with substituted numbers. In December 2022, with the help of our anti-fraud system, we verified more than 2.7 billion calls, of which 17.7 million were blocked. The system works in automatic mode and is not a service. It is free for the subscriber," the company's representatives said.

Group-IB experts note that attackers continue to use various telephone fraud schemes to deceive victims. "There are dozens of scenarios in which criminals force people to transfer money or disclose confidential information about bank cards. To increase the chances of catching the victim by surprise, scammers constantly invent and try new legends. For example, attackers do not miss the opportunity to adopt current news topics. For greater persuasiveness, criminals can use tools to substitute an incoming number," the experts said.

The commercial director of the company "Security Code" Fedor Dbar said that there are a large number of different programs that can reduce the frequency of spam and fraudulent calls. "All utilities work on approximately the same principle, and the user should choose by trial and error. Note that most of these programs work as number identifiers, that is, they do not block incoming calls, but make it clear that someone from those with whom you would not like to talk is on the other end. Such programs can be divided into two groups: the first are mobile operators, the second are specialized developers. The applications of the second group, as a rule, have a wider functionality, while the database of unwanted phone numbers is often replenished by the users themselves," said Fedor Dbar. According to him, the effectiveness of any anti-spam software depends on the frequency of database updates.

Maxim Gryazev, an analyst at the digital threat analysis and evaluation department of Infosecurity a Softline Company, also noted that there are many programs for gadgets, both paid and free, that protect against fraudulent calls. "They allow you to determine who is hiding behind an unfamiliar number. Some applications identify the caller immediately and highlight to the user that the call may be fraudulent or advertising. There are other applications where you need to enter numbers manually into the search bar. There are also special bots, for example in Telegram, where you can drive an unknown number, but we recommend using official applications," he said.

The head of the analytics group of the Innostage CyberART Cyber Threat Counteraction Center, Ksenia Rysaeva, notes that phone call fraud (vishing) is one of the most common types of phishing. "Attackers come up with hundreds of options for the victim to disclose the data. Usually scammers play on the human feelings of the victims. They try to scare them, take them by surprise, use all sorts of psychological tactics so that during a phone call the victim becomes trustworthy. Scammers create a sense of urgency so that a person panics and succumbs to manipulation. Therefore, they demand to pay or disclose the data right during the call, and not ask to perform some additional action after the end of the conversation," she explained.

According to her, one of the examples of telephone fraud are calls from the "main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs". "They say that a criminal case has been initiated against the victim, and they begin to manipulate her. Or they call with a message about the delivery of goods and ask you to specify bank details. There are really a lot of options," Ksenia Rysaeva said. According to her, the number of reports about data leaks of various services has increased. "Spam filters that report a possible spam call or block it are popular. Applications of this type display information about an incoming or missed call from an unknown number, including the name of the organization, its category and the reputation of the number (Kaspersky Who Calls, Phone by Google). However, you should not install everything in a row, often an application of scammers can disguise itself as an official application, which will require personal data from you," she concluded.

Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group, notes that operators and the state are struggling with spam and fraudulent calls and their number is decreasing, but still remains significant. "Calls are transferred to messengers from regular phones, because number substitution and traffic skipping do not work. This is done by operators and the state in order to protect subscribers," he said.

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Independent expert Vadim Plessky notes that the ability to make phone calls has become much easier in recent years, largely due to the introduction of IP telephony in various forms. "Additional regulatory measures are needed to protect subscribers, and with a high probability these will be unpopular measures. For example, to require 100% binding of phone numbers to accounts on "Public Services". This will give a complete deanonymization of phone calls. While maintaining the ability to make a call anonymously, spam and fraud will continue," Vadim Plessky suggests. In his opinion, control and prohibition of the circulation of "gray" SIM cards can give a good effect. "Earlier, a law was passed on mandatory registration of corporate SIM cards, linking them to a specific individual using a SIM card, with confirmation through Public Services. But judging by the fact that calls from the "left" SIM cards are continuing, the process has not been completed. Perhaps the operators and their partners have found a way to circumvent the new legislation," the expert suggested
Entrepreneurs of the Lipetsk region chose video surveillance from Rostelecom

January 31, 2023
In 2022, 250 small and medium-sized enterprises of the Lipetsk region used the cloud video surveillance service from Rostelecom. In relation to 2021, the growth of customers in this segment amounted to 22%.

Konstantin Vlasov, Director of the Lipetsk Branch of PJSC Rostelecom:
"Cloud technologies allow small companies to use digital services that were previously available only to large enterprises. Our analysts record an increase in demand for the Video Surveillance for Business service, which is quite understandable. The service allows you to remotely monitor everything that happens at the enterprise, and artificial intelligence helps to count visitors, monitor the presence of employees on the ground, recognize car numbers and solve other business tasks. At the same time, the entrepreneur does not need to purchase servers and hire new employees to support the service."

Among the new users of cloud surveillance was the network of car washes "Boomerang". Rostelecom specialists installed 35 cameras in two branches of the company, connecting them to a single network. The recordings from the cameras are available to the customer's employees for seven days: the archive is stored on the provider's servers.

Stepan Stepanov, manager of the Boomerang network:
"When you have not one car wash, but a whole network, it becomes more difficult to control the work and the level of service of each of them. Creating your own IT department for these purposes is a costly and time-consuming story. Therefore, we took the opportunity to transfer these functions to the application with pleasure. Now we are planning to expand the network and connect the video analytics function to, for example, automatically detect the occurrence of queues at our points."

With the help of video analytics, business owners can always be aware of emergency events caught in the camera lens. If the view is blocked, signal lines are crossed, the Internet or electricity is turned off, the system will send an instant notification.
In 2023, a satellite for ecomonitoring and smart city tasks will be launched in Tyumen

31.01.2023
In the middle of 2023, a device will be launched into orbit that will carry out environmental monitoring and help solve problems related to a smart city in the Tyumen region. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Sitronics Group company.

The spacecraft is assembled on the basis of the OrbiCraft-Pro platform from the Sputnix company, part of the Sitronics Group. TSU and the Moscow State University Research Institute also worked on the creation of the device.

While in orbit, the device will take photos of clouds and reservoirs at once in both the visible and infrared ranges. In addition, thanks to the satellite, it will be possible to solve problems related to the delivery of data to hard-to-reach places, as well as to monitor the traffic situation and parking congestion in Tyumen and the region.

The launch of the device will be carried out under the Space-Pi project, the purpose of which is to introduce schoolchildren and students to the study of space and space technologies.

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THE REASONS FOR THE DEMOGRAPHIC PIT SHOULD BE SOUGHT IN THE GOAL-SETTING OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

THE PRESIDENT INSTRUCTED THE GOVERNMENT TO COME UP WITH AN EMERGENCY PLAN TO INCREASE DEMOGRAPHY IN TWO WEEKS. WHAT CAN MISHUSTIN'S "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OFFICERS" OFFER FOR THIS?

31.01.2023

The reasons for the demographic pit in the state should always be sought in the professed ideology and goal-setting of the authorities and the "elite". In our case, the Russian state today is organized like a closed corporation with "effective managers", for whom the people are an unoptimized contingent in agglomerations (and they do not see people outside large agglomerations at all).

Here we have an ordinary citizen of Russia who grew up in a full family, educated and intelligent, who was able to withstand the temptations of destructive, did not fall into the abyss and received a normal university education. And this citizen wants to do what he loves, develop and help his country become better. He also wants to have a family and children, like his father, when he gets on his feet stronger…

The illusions of a citizen will dissipate at the first attempt at employment. He will quickly see that the entire social sphere, which is also the budgetary sphere (education, medicine, science, public administration), is organized according to the principle of negative selection. You work hard for a modest ration and don't ask unnecessary questions (if you do, there are a lot of people who want to take your place), and for successful career growth, you must learn not only to be submissive, but also to force others to fulfill other people's directives (those that were first hammered into you). Then they will start letting you near the edge of the feeder, you will begin to overgrow patrons and compromising material (which is stored where it should be) – and gradually you will become part of the mechanism of the anti-system. There are no opportunities for real creative growth in the anti–system - everything is compressed into strict algorithms and reporting forms. The social sphere and the economy (that is, the entire domestic policy) are not here to serve the people, but as a means of training them and making money from "effective managers". Everything is turned inside out.

It is almost impossible to organize a successful business if it is based on traditional values and, again, the desire to serve society. Either you initially have connections – and you start making money on a government order, or you come to a private owner and become his corporate slave (in any public / private company, this is the approach to people).

While the Government's goal-setting is the UN SDGs (poorly camouflaged for national development goals), while the Presidential Administration drags Egor Creed and other music-born children to schools, promotes covid vaccines and metaverses, while the status of a top official in our country is determined by the ability to speak the Swabian newspeak of the "fourth industrial revolution", and the priority is total (juvenile, digital, biometric, genetic) population control – what kind of demographic growth can we talk about?

Actually, everything has already been said 1000 times. Without the right state ideology (today the "elite" has it, and this is a liberal-globalist ideology), values and an appropriate personnel policy, nothing will change. While it is not the state for the people (although according to the Constitution it should be so), but the people – for a closed corporation with its own tasks and interests (largely under global control), periodically simulating feedback with the people to divert their eyes – there will be no serious positive changes. And this applies not only to demography.""

Metering devices were prescribed a new standard

The Technical Committee "Cyber-Physical Systems" has developed an Internet of Things standard for accounting for MIRT energy resources. This is the second fully Russian standard. It sets out the requirements for the structure, format and rules for the use of the MYRTLE exchange protocol. The standard can be applied to all metering devices.

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Representatives of the NTI press service said that the standard will allow devices and devices to exchange data quickly and safely, which will help to receive timely up-to-date information on resource consumption. "The protocol will also make it possible to more quickly identify technical problems and the causes of their occurrence in the operation of devices. Draft national standard "Information technologies. Internet of Things. Data transmission protocol for information exchange between components of the integrated energy accounting system MIRT" preliminary. The standard defines the requirements for the data transmission protocol for information exchange between the components of the integrated energy accounting system MIRT," representatives of NIT said.

According to them, the standard establishes requirements for the structure, format and rules for using the MYRTLE exchange protocol. "The protocol is designed to solve data transmission problems in devices with minimal computing power. It forms compact (no more than 128 bytes) packets for data transmission, which saves time on information delivery," they said.

According to the protocol developers, the devices supporting the protocol act as a packet repeater, which significantly increases the effective range of the communication channel and makes the mechanism of data delivery to the end device transparent. "This makes it possible to use high-performance communication devices to build a network without affecting the processor capacities of the simplest end devices. Such an organization of data exchange is ideal for transmitting information in the Internet of Things networks," they explained.

The NTI press service noted that the Russian Internet of Things market is growing annually in the range of 15-20% and has a high potential for further growth. "IoT technologies are also among the "end-to-end technologies" of the National Technology Initiative and the national Digital Economy project. The public discussion of the draft preliminary national standard will last until March 31, 2023. After that, it will be approved by the Technical Committee 194 "Cyber-physical Systems", and then it will be submitted for approval to Rosstandart," they said.

Nikita Utkin, Director of Technological Standards of ANO "NTI Platform", Chairman of TC 194 "Cyber-physical Systems", noted that the new data transmission protocol standard is one of the few domestic ones. "The first Russian protocol was NB-Fi, developed on the initiative of Telematics Solutions LLC. SPODES, developed by PJSC ROSSETI on the basis of the international IEC standard, has also been widely used for electrical metering devices. The NB-IoT and LoRaWAN protocols adapted in national standards and widely presented all over the world are actively used," he recalled.
Nikita Utkin noted the importance of creating Russian standards. "The new protocol is suitable for use both in battery-powered devices with a small amount of transmitted information, and for highly functional devices with high-speed channels and large amounts of transmitted data. The protocol provides an opportunity to work not only on the request-response principle, but also provides proactive data transmission, which is relevant for battery-powered devices," explained Nikita Utkin.

Andrey Kolesnikov, Director of the Internet of Things Association, notes that the standard is always aimed at reducing costs, as it unifies the engineering specification, which allows various market players not to reinvent the wheel every time. "There are necessary and important novelties in the proposed specification. Such as the suggestion that the standard can be applied to all metering devices - electricity, water, gas. There are elements for data relay and an important embryo of device identification and program blocks. The text does not contain references to the W3C international recommendations on model data structures, which causes some caution. In addition, there are many international industrial recommendations regarding the data structure in the field of gas, water and heat accounting. I believe that the relevant specialists will see to what extent the proposed standard in terms of electricity metering devices corresponds to SPODES, etc. The role of the profile TC-194 is precisely this," says Andrey Kolesnikov.

He notes that "Rosstandart" approved in June 2020 SPODES as a national standard under the number GOST R 58940-2020 "Requirements for protocols for information exchange between components of an intelligent accounting system and metering devices". "At the same time, GOST standards are not mandatory in the "permissive-forbidding" sense. At the same time, the information model of the electrical metering device was approved by government Decree 890 and is as close as possible to the SPODES specification (based on the DLMS standard)," he explains. According to him, the second important component of the success of the standard is approval, or even better - support from relevant ministries. "I see problems here, since electricity, water, heat and gas are under the close attention of various interest groups," he concluded.

Alexander Biryukov, head of IT and Development at the NTI Competence Center for Big Data at Moscow State University, says that modern microcontrollers, which are most often used in simple IoT sensors and counters, for example STM32, already use a 40-nm process technology. "In Russia, the most affordable process for mass production of microelectronics is 90 nm. For example, the microcontroller "Milander K1986VK025" works according to such a process. Most of the microcontrollers come from abroad. Despite the fact that the use of 90-nm microcontrollers is quite acceptable for sensors and meters, according to experts, domestic manufacturers can still provide no more than 3% of the demand for semiconductors in Russia. In this connection, the strengthening of sanctions aimed at the semiconductor industry in both the Russian Federation and China may lead to a difficult situation in microelectronics in the Russian Federation," explains Alexander Biryukov.

Nikita Utkin noted that the issue of having chips in the right quality and quantity according to the required specifications and characteristics is a consistently relevant issue for Russia. "That is why the Ministry of Industry and Trade pays such attention to this topic. The question concerns both the development of their own developments and the localization of the production of massively popular titles. As for this standard and technology, here we are talking about a very mass segment," he said.

The press services of JSC "ER-Telecom Holding" and PJSC "Rosseti" refrained from commenting.

By Order No. 78830 of December 30, 2020, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation approved a list of standardized data transmission protocols that can be used to organize information exchange between components of an intelligent electric energy (power) metering system and electric energy metering devices that can be connected to such a system. Among them is one Russian standard NB-Fi, the developers are Telematics Solutions LLC (Vaviot company), RVC JSC, FRII, NP Russian Biometric Society. And the second standard - SPODES, developed by PJSC ROSSETI, was developed on the basis of the foreign DLMS/COSEM protocol. SPODES (Specification of the Electronic Meter Data Exchange Protocol) is a single open protocol for transmitting information from electronic metering devices to a remote data collection device developed by PJSC ROSSETI based on the IEC 62056 protocol (DLMS/COSEM) to ensure efficient and secure data transmission. The remaining points of the order do not directly relate to the standards.

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The Government of the Russian Federation has supported a bill on simplifying access for telecom operators to infrastructure in apartment buildings
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The bill amending the law "On Communications" and the Housing Code of the Russian Federation was proposed for consideration by a group of deputies and senators on November 17, 2022.

The document proposes to allow gratuitous placement of communication networks and access of operators to apartment buildings (MCD), except for electricity charges, at the request of any owner or tenant of housing without the need for a decision by the general meeting.

In an official response, the Government supported the initiative, but noted that it is advisable to establish in the draft law the powers of federal executive authorities to determine the list (categories) of communication facilities that can be placed by telecom operators free of charge.

In addition, it is indicated that the indefinite exemption of telecom operators from paying for the use of the common property of owners in the MCD will worsen their situation compared to the situation of owners of other objects, including owners of state and municipal property, who will be charged for the placement of communication networks starting from 2025.
By 2024, all smart electricity meters in Russia will be domestic

02.02.2023
MTS analyzed the Russian market of manufacturers of smart electricity meters based on IoT, and found out that the share of domestic manufacturers in it is more than 96%, and by 2024 it may reach 100%.

Such indicators have become possible due to the presence in Russia of the largest centers for the production of electricity meters, on the basis of which smart meters are assembled, including the North Caucasus Federal District, the Volga Federal District and the Southern Federal District. This led to the possibility of developing a production base in the country independent of external factors for the assembly of the next generations of meters — which made the industry one of the most import-substituting.

MTS predicts that in 2023, out of 6.6 million electricity meters sold, 46.3% of them will work using Internet of Things technologies in new generation networks. By 2024, the penetration of metering devices based on the NB-IoT network may reach 75.8%. While maintaining the current situation of the industry, regulating the digitalization of housing and communal services, the level of demand and the absence of significant macroeconomic factors, 95.8% of the 7 million meters installed per year will work on IoT networks by the end of 2025.

"The active introduction of smart meters began in Russia in 2020. Own production of smart electricity meters connected to domestic networks of the Internet of Things NB-IoT makes the industry immune to macroeconomic factors. This will allow for the digitalization of housing and communal services throughout Russia in a short time, including remote settlements," says Andrey Plavich, head of the Center for the Development of Networks and Solutions Based on MTS Internet of Things Devices. — MTS actively contributes to the digitalization of the industry, providing coverage with NB-IoT networks in more than 80 regions of Russia, as well as providing customers with NB-IoT meters for water, gas and electricity," he adds."

01 Feb, 2023
The population of Russia has decreased by 555 thousand people over the year

Rosstat reported a decrease in the population of Russia in 2022 by 555 thousand people, to 146.4 million. The reduction occurred despite taking into account the census data, which increased the number of residents by 1.4 million people at the beginning of 2022

The permanent population of Russia as of January 1, 2023 amounted to 146.425 million people, having decreased by 555 thousand over the year (minus 0.38%). This follows from a preliminary estimate of the permanent population posted by Rosstat on January 31.

The presented data take into account the results of the All-Russian Census, which took place in 2021 and as a result of the recalculation significantly increased the population of Russia. Excluding the census, Rosstat reported that as of January 1, 2022, 145.6 million people lived in the country. However, after the announcement of the census results, the indicator for this date increased by more than a million, to almost 147 million inhabitants. This makes it difficult to compare the results of 2022 with previous periods.

Rosstat notes that the population data does not take into account "official statistical information" on the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which were admitted to Russia at the end of September 2022.

According to previous Rosstat estimates, prior to the census, the permanent population of Russia has been declining every year since 2018 inclusive. According to the results of 2021, a record decrease in the population since 2002 (minus 613 thousand people) was recorded against the background of an increase in mortality during the pandemic and a decrease in the birth rate, follows from the data of the department.

The dynamics of the number of citizens consists of a natural increase/decrease (the number of births minus the number of deaths) and a net inflow/outflow of international migrants. According to the results of 11 months of 2022 (the latest available statistics), the natural decline amounted to 543.4 thousand people. This is less than in the same period of 2021, when, against the background of the consequences of the pandemic, the decline reached 945 thousand people. The annual mortality rate in January—November decreased by 22% (to 1.74 million people), and the birth rate — by 6%, to 1.2 million.

As for migration, according to data for January—October 2022 (the most relevant statistics for today), there was a migration outflow of 20.6 thousand people in Russia, whereas for the same period a year earlier there was a migration increase of 320 thousand people. The number of arrivals in the ten months of 2022 decreased by 5% year—on-year, to 3.42 million people, and the number of departures, on the contrary, increased by 5%, to 3.44 million.

The results of the census become the basis for estimating the population, and in the intervals between censuses, the permanent population is recalculated based on the data of the Registry Office system on fertility/mortality and migration registration, demographers told RBC earlier. Rosstat receives data on migration from the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — their reliability is worse than that of data on the natural movement of the population, experts pointed out. If there is a deterioration in the quality of migration records, this violates the balance of demographic calculations. Thus, the specifics of migration registration are such that "retired" means not those who actually left the country, but those removed from the registration register (when the end date of temporary registration comes, migrants are automatically considered to have left for the country of their former residence). Not all such people leave the borders of Russia.

Among the regions by the end of 2022, the largest reduction in the number in absolute terms was observed in the Rostov and Nizhny Novgorod regions (minus 28.6 thousand and 27.9 thousand people, respectively), as well as the Saratov and Sverdlovsk regions (minus 26.8 thousand and 23.4 thousand people).

The largest increase in the number occurred in Moscow (plus 82.4 thousand), the Moscow region (plus 52.2 thousand), as well as in Dagestan (plus 22.9 thousand). In relative terms, the change in the number of the population both in the direction of decreasing and increasing did not exceed 2% among all regions, follows from the calculations of RBC.

The phenomenon of negative migration
Rosstat's estimates of population decline are absolutely expected, there was a consensus among demographers that it would amount to 500-600 thousand people by the end of the year, Mikhail Denisenko, director of the HSE Institute of Demography, told RBC. In his opinion, this trend will continue in 2023. "The main factor is a decrease in the number of births due to a decrease in the number of women of reproductive age, as well as "bad" migration — minus 20 thousand. [in annual terms] for ten months," he said.

According to his preliminary estimates, by the end of 2023, net migration with other countries will be able to become zero or reach a small plus, but it is unlikely that this will significantly affect the population. "The last time negative migration was observed in Russia was during the Soviet period, in the mid-1970s. Then there was a coup, and the RSFSR again began to accept migrants. In general, negative migration is a new phenomenon," the expert said.

Denisenko also noted that taking into account the census data implies incomplete comparability of the 2022 data with previous years. If the number of births and deaths can be compared, then it is more difficult with the dynamics of the population as a whole — as a result of the census, migration data changes, which provokes a rather serious correction of indicators.

Igor Efremov, a researcher at the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital of the Gaidar Institute, points out serious methodological problems of migration accounting. In 2021, due to the pandemic, labor migrants were automatically renewed their registration in Russia, which is why they did not "drop out" on paper in 2021, he explains. Accordingly, their "retirement" was postponed to 2022, as a result of which about 200 thousand people were deducted from the registered migration increase over the past year on paper. If there were no such "statistical artifact", then Rosstat, according to him, would show a reduction in the population of Russia by about 350 thousand people, and not by 555 thousand, as it is now.

"It should be borne in mind that all migrants who have been registered in Russia for a period of nine months or more fall into these statistics [on international migration], that is, they are often temporary labor migrants who do not consider Russia a place of permanent residence," Efremov adds.

Also in 2022, due to the nature of migration accounting and the specifics of the methodology, two migration flows were not included in the final statistics: Ukrainian refugees to Russia and Russians who left the country after the start of the military special operation and after partial mobilization. "Refugees in Russia (formally, they receive other legal statuses, but I use the word "refugees" as generally accepted, and not in a legal or bureaucratic sense) usually received short-term registrations for a period of three months, which were then extended the required number of times. Therefore, a significant part of Ukrainian refugees were not included in the migration statistics," Efremov points out.

Russians who go abroad for a long time should ideally be included in the statistics of emigrants, but in practice few people declare moving to a permanent place of residence in another country, so they do not get into the statistics. In this case, we are talking about "statistics that in most cases reflect virtual, not real emigration," wrote demographers from Moscow State University Olga Chudinovskikh and Anastasia Stepanova in 2020 (.pdf). In their opinion, a more complete accounting of departing Russian citizens could be made on the basis of "mirror statistics" of the host states.

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Artificial intelligence will help patients to act correctly with COVID-19

31.01.2023
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies will make it possible to better predict which disease the symptoms belong to - COVID-19, flu or MS virus, according to a new study by scientists from George Mason University.

A more accurate diagnosis will lead to better decisions for the patient and prevent the spread of the virus. Now scientists are working on creating a website for the distribution of artificial intelligence-based software that will help patients determine the most correct course of action. The software will draw conclusions based on the COVID test result and the user's medical history.

Artificial intelligence will allow the patient to be more confident in his decision to stay at home or isolate himself. So, a lot of people do a test for COVID-19 and, despite the absence of any symptoms, the result is positive. What to do in such situations, when the physical condition and the test results do not agree with each other, the AI will just tell you.
Leningradsky railway station in Moscow equipped with digital video surveillance systems

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The platforms of the suburban and long-distance Leningrad railway station were equipped with modern digital video surveillance systems. During the modernization of security systems, Russian-made developments were used. This makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the work of the transport security units of the station, the press service of the Oktyabrskaya Railway reports.

The implementation of the program to improve the equipment of technical security of railway transport facilities has led to an increase in the quality of round-the-clock monitoring of crowded places. All installed video surveillance cameras are designed for a high degree of interaction between the security departments of JSC "Russian Railways" and law enforcement agencies.

The implementation of security measures, including the technical equipment of railway stations, the recruitment, training and certification of personnel, make it possible to increase the security of Russian Railways facilities from acts of unlawful interference in the activities of railway complexes and ensure the safety of passengers and visitors.

Recall that since 2022, a project is being implemented in the Moscow Region to ensure the safety of railway stations using video surveillance cameras with a facial recognition system."

An artificial neuron has been developed in Novosibirsk to create biosensors
According to Evgeny Mostovich, head of the laboratory of low-carbon chemical Technologies at NSU, sensors based on such a neuron can also be used to analyze the state of plants

NOVOSIBIRSK, January 31. Employees of the Laboratory of Low-carbon Chemical Technologies of Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have created an artificial neuron based on organic semiconductors. This will allow us to develop biosensors for analyzing the state of plants, Yevgeny Mostovich, head of the laboratory, told reporters on Tuesday.

"At the moment, we have implemented one of the transistors, showed its capabilities to simulate the function of a neuron, and this is our starting point," Mostovich said.

He added that the artificial synapses being developed (the place of contact of two neurons) are an imitation of the work of neurons on a miniature chip that allows you to simulate all the characteristics of living neurons and make artificial intelligence not by software, but in hardware. So far, scientists are working with single neurons, but in the future they plan to combine them into a neural network so that, interacting with each other, they perform the specified functions.

Based on an artificial neuron, it is possible to create miniature inexpensive biocompatible sensors with a smart design that will be sensitive to physico-chemical parameters, for example, a glucose sensor, a moisture sensor or a temperature sensor. "They can be trained, these are multisensors - sensorics of various signals, decision-making," Mostovich said.

He added that such sensors can be used in the agricultural sector. Organic and sensors close in elasticity to biological tissues can be implanted, for example, in a plant. The plant will be able to analyze its condition, transmit data about which trace elements it lacks, so it will be possible to add the necessary amount of certain fertilizers at the right time.

According to him, the introduction of such technology in medicine may take decades. "If we are talking about bioprosthetics, the direct connection between neurons and biomechanical components is a big budget and the technology output is more than 30 years old," said the head of the laboratory.

Samara Region became the first region where the integration of the Surveillance-2 and Safe City systems took place. Due to this, it is planned to identify and prevent violations in the operation of self-propelled equipment in a timely manner, reports sovainfo.ru .

In 2022, a module was developed for the interaction of two systems. The data obtained thanks to the agro-industrial complex "Safe City" allows employees of the State Technical Supervision Inspectorate of the Samara region to automatically not only identify, but also filter out violations. In addition, the project provides for the possibility of conducting administrative practice and drawing up a protocol on the violator.

The module records information about the passage of self-propelled vehicles and other types of equipment in a separate register indicating the date, time and place of the violation and information about the violator's vehicle.

During November-December 2022, 2,846 passes of tractors, self-propelled vehicles and other types of equipment were recorded. A third of them are without violations.
Skoltech has patented a method for controlling the properties of "liquid light"
According to Skoltech professor Pavlos Lagoudakis, the discovery of this form of Bose-Einstein condensate and the creation of methods for controlling the properties of "liquid light" opened the way for the creation of devices capable of playing the role of long-term memory cells for classical and quantum computers

MOSCOW, February 2. Researchers from Skoltech have patented an approach that allows controlling the behavior of so-called "liquid light", one of the forms of Bose-Einstein condensate, a quantum form of matter. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of Skoltech.

"The source of this patent is a polariton transistor, which our team presented in 2019. Only then we switched it with the help of about 10-100 thousand photons, and now - with just one particle. It is important that we are talking about working in indoor conditions, while competing approaches failed to raise the operating temperature above minus 263 degrees Celsius," explained Professor Pavlos Lagudakis of Skoltech, whose words are quoted by the press service of the university.

Bose-Einstein condensate is a quantum form of matter similar in some properties to liquid and gas. It consists of atoms or other particles cooled to almost absolute zero. This cloud behaves like one big atom, obeying the laws of quantum physics.For this reason, it can be a material for creating quantum computers, sensors and solving other problems.

A year ago, Russian physicists discovered a new form of Bose-Einstein condensate, a kind of "liquid light". It consists of so-called polaritons - quasiparticles representing a combination of an electron and a particle of light. In the past, physicists believed that such structures could exist only at temperatures close to absolute zero. However, scientists from Russia managed to show that they can occur at room temperature.

According to Professor Lagoudakis, the discovery of this form of Bose-Einstein condensate and the creation of methods for controlling the properties of "liquid light" opened the way for the creation of devices capable of playing the role of long-term memory cells for classical and quantum computers using light particles to transmit data and perform calculations.

Recently, researchers from Skoltech managed to improve the operation of photon detectors used in the operation of a transistor they created based on "liquid light". This makes it possible to control its behavior using single particles of light, rather than tens or hundreds of thousands of particles. In the future, this will dramatically reduce the energy consumption required for calculations, Lagudakis summed up.
Sechenov University presented the "virtual patient" to the Federation Council
February 1, 2023

These days, the Federation Council hosts an exhibition of achievements of medical science in the protection of maternal and child health. It presents the best domestic developments in the field of medical technologies. Sechenov University presented at the exhibition a unique system of training and decision support "Virtual patient".

"Virtual Patient" is an online platform with artificial intelligence, a universal educational module that will help medical students to comprehend the basics of pediatrics and pediatric surgery, form research competencies, and children's doctors – based on the analysis of large amounts of data, quickly make an accurate diagnosis and offer recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in children.

According to Ekaterina Alekseeva, director of the N.F. Filatov Clinical Institute of Children's Health at Sechenov University, the development of the "Virtual Patient" began about two years ago. Initially, it was conceived as a training program for students of Sechenov University, but a year later the developers realized that their invention could also help practicing doctors. The program will include depersonalized data from patients' medical histories – symptoms, laboratory data, CT, MRI, etc. In the future, scientists will "teach" the system to analyze these data and, comparing them with the "norm", make the most likely diagnosis and offer the best treatment option.

For medical students, this program will become an indispensable assistant in the study of pediatrics. In addition to access to unique training material based on modern clinical guidelines and treatment protocols in pediatric specialties, the program will open up the opportunity for future doctors to practice the skills and algorithms of a doctor's actions in a secure digital environment (the program has an "option" of working in virtual reality with 3D glasses).

According to Viktor Chernov, CEO of the developer company Nitrosdate Rus LLC, it will take about two years to complete work on the "Virtual Patient". To date, experts – employees of departments and institutes of Sechenov University – have completed loading the so-called "norm" into the program. This is more than 570 indicators of a healthy body of children of different ages and genders, with which the system will compare the symptoms of sick children and, based on 248 thousand combinations, diagnose and offer treatment.

"Now we have started downloading symptoms, the next step will be downloading pathologies from various databases formed by clinical hospitals. First of all, the University Children's Clinical Hospital," Ekaterina Alekseeva explained.

The program will be self-learning and in the future, after accumulating a large amount of data, it will be able to recognize and analyze not only "programmed" diseases, but also unknown ones by clinical symptoms, offering them scientifically-based algorithms for diagnosis and treatment."

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January 23, 2023
PARENTING TESTS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND GUARDIAN RELATIVES: THE STATE DUMA WILL CONSIDER THE JUVENILE "PSYCHOLOGICAL" INITIATIVE OF THE GOVERNMENT

The State Duma Committee on the Family, headed by the odious author of a number of controversial initiatives Nina Ostanina, approved a dangerous anti-family bill of the Mishustin government providing for adoption and custody of children by relatives only after a socio-psychological examination and a reasoned conclusion of the guardianship authority, as well as an examination of all persons living with children over 10 years old. Consideration of the initiative in the first reading is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24. And this is during the war, when there is a danger that many children will be orphaned – and Mishustin and Ostanina want to complicate the placement of children in related families, apparently taking care of the saturation of the market of professional foster families, i.e. child trafficking. The cynicism of the situation is given by the fact that anti-family forces simultaneously block the adoption of the pro-family bill "10 senators", which has been lying in parliament without movement since July. The parent community points out significant risks for native adoptive parents (in the future – and for blood parents) in the event of the adoption of the document and invites all concerned citizens to contact deputies to block it.

PFZ No. 232772-8 "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the Protection of children's Rights" (https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/232772-8 ) was approved by the Family Committee headed by N.A. Ostanina on January 18 and submitted for 1 reading on January 24. The Committee on state Construction of juvenile Pavel "term for a slap" Krasheninnikov is right there – in the role of a "co-executor" approving the concept of the bill.

What is dangerous about it for families and children? Let's repeat a little and tell you once again the essence that was reported for more than two months. The bill radically complicates the conditions for persons wishing to adopt a child or take him under guardianship, including for close relatives, and creates the ground for the promotion of the business of psychologists and other "specialists" in "preventive" intervention in families, their support and examination.

The document introduces a mandatory socio-psychological examination of persons wishing to adopt a child into their family and persons living together with them, including children under 10 years of age. There are no exceptions for relatives, including close ones. This conclusion of an "independent" psychologist may be negative – in this case, the path to the adoption of the child will be closed.

Some "specialists in the field of education" or even lawyers who are not in labor relations with the guardianship authorities conduct a survey. That is, personal information will be distributed to "specialists" who have nothing to do with the guardianship authorities, who are actually called upon to deal with the device of children who have lost parental care. This, among other things, is a sign of the continued displacement of state structures from the sphere of implementation of state functions.

According to the draft, a socio-psychological examination is carried out in order to determine whether citizens have motivation, "parenting experience and other COMPETENCIES" necessary for the adoption of a child into a family. The wording can lead to the fact that people who do not have their own children (for example, for health reasons), as "having no parenting experience", will obviously be thrown out of the list of candidates for the adoption of a child.

In Russian traditions, first of all, love and self-sacrifice are important for creating a family. In the ideology imposed by the bill, taken, in essence, from the foresight project "Childhood-2030", "family" is a professional sphere, for the creation of which some "competencies" are needed. This approach is mentally alien to us and poses a real threat to the institution of the traditional family. Today, in the Family Code, the word "competence" in relation to parents or persons taking a child into the family does not occur. Recall that according to the foresight project, which seems to have been canceled in Russia, testing of parents (with the subsequent introduction of certificates for the right to have and raise children) should become the norm. It seems that the PFZ under discussion is building a path to this testing, for starters – in relation to cases of adoption of children into a family, and even by native people.

A person who wants to adopt a child, according to the results of a psycho. surveys may be issued recommendations on obtaining pedagogical, socio-psychological services. It is clear that failure to comply with these recommendations will entail adverse consequences. Given that organizations are interested in work (money), it is obvious that there will be no end to the flow of recommendations. As it happens today in Western countries, in which parents who have lost their children for far-fetched reasons and want to return them must repeatedly take various courses and tests to prove their "competence".

The authors of the bill provide for the mandatory passage of special training by close relatives (grandparents, brothers, sisters) who want to adopt a child into a family (the so-called "school of foster parents"), from which they are currently exempt, as well as the "possibility" of such training for any persons living together with these relatives, including children (!) from 10 years old. Moreover, this training can be conducted by various organizations that are interested in giving numerous negative conclusions to relatives (for corruption, etc. reasons).

The bill provides for the implementation of the "escort" of guardians by the decision of the guardianship authorities, that is, an unhindered invasion of the privacy of foster families, even in cases of the placement of a grandson (who has lost his parents) under the guardianship of his own grandmother, with whom he lived since childhood. The work of "accompanying" families can be carried out by various "organizations", including juvenile NGOs. The more clients there are, the more profitable it will be to accompany families. In the West, for example, as part of such an escort, parents are told where the bike should stand, where books should lie, etc., and in case of evasion from the realization of the desires of the "escorts", the most severe sanctions for breaking up with children follow.

But that's not all. According to the bill, "escorting" can continue even in the case of the removal of the guardian from duties. Moreover, there is no question of any consent of the former guardian. In addition, if now only the guardianship authority checks the living conditions of the wards, then the bill provides for the granting of supervisory functions to any "other specialists" of organizations to which the guardianship authority will transfer its powers. During the inspection, the appointment of a "socio-psychological examination of the child" is possible.

As stated in the financial and economic justification for the bill, its implementation will require the allocation of more than 803 million rubles per year. At the same time, it follows from the Explanatory Note to the PFZ that its relevance is due to about 1% (!!!) cases of the return of children adopted into families (moreover, only a part of this one percent are adoptive parents, guardians). That is, the justification of the document looks far-fetched, and the creation of conditions through it for the promotion of a "psychological" business around the placement of children in families is obvious.

We are joins the conclusions of the parent community, in particular, the Public Commissioner for the Protection of the Family: PFZ No. 232772-8 is conceptually untenable, has high corruption risks, openly contradicts the recent Presidential Decree "On the approval of the Foundations of state Policy for the preservation and strengthening of Traditional Russian spiritual and moral values," and is also a dangerous window of Overton for the introduction of certificates for parenthood, which has long been dreamed of by utopian transformers of traditional human society. Unfortunately, at a difficult moment for the country, when the fate of Russia and the future of our people are being decided on the front line, instead of real support for family values (in the form of the PFZ "10 senators", protecting families from juvenile lawlessness), certain forces in power really want to cross out bright beginnings and introduce destructive. We urge citizens not to be silent, but to actively exercise their will – even after passing the first reading, there will be at least another month to influence the situation."

QUANTORIUM
The autonomous non–profit organization "Children's Technopark "Quantorium" (hereinafter - Quantorium) was organized on February 5, 2016 to implement a new model of additional education for children in accordance with the initiative of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote new Projects of the Russian Federation. The Quantorium in Naberezhnye Chelny is a successful example of public-private partnership in the educational sphere. The founders of the ANO "Children's Technopark "Quantorium" are the Republic of Tatarstan represented by the GAU "Technopark in the field of high technologies "IT Park" and PJSC "KAMAZ".

The following areas of additional education for children are being implemented in the Quantorium:
VR/AR-Quantum
Autoquantum
Aeroquantum
IT quantum
Geoquantum
Cosmoquantum
Nanoquantum
Neuroquantum
Industrial Robotics
Hi-tech. 3D modeling
Hi-tech. Laser technologies
Hi-tech. Prototyping
598 schoolchildren of grades 5-11 of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny study on a permanent basis. Every year, as part of master classes and excursions, 1,700 children are covered by the educational programs of the Quantorium.

12 educational programs have been developed in the areas of activity, 16 – for advanced training of employees of the system of additional education. 8 advanced training courses were held for managers and teachers of children's creativity centers, children's technoparks. A regional resource center has been created to provide methodological support to professional education organizations for teachers of additional education and coordinate the activities of educational organizations implementing additional general education programs of various directions, including in the field of scientific and technical creativity, robotics.
NEUROQUANTUM
The study of the mechanisms of the human brain and the development of new artificial systems and human-machine interfaces based on them.

ABOUT NEUROQUANTUM
Dynamically developing digital technologies have achieved amazing opportunities. Today it is difficult to imagine any area of human activity without the use of technical means and the Internet. The next stage of human development will be the convergence of artificial systems and their creator - man. First of all, this is the emergence of new brain-computer interfaces that allow you to give commands to devices directly, bypassing keyboards, mice, touch screens and even voice control, which is so popular today. Research in the field of neurotechnology opens up huge opportunities to increase the capabilities of the human brain, sensory organs and nervous system: improving memory, vision, hearing, speed of thinking, information processing. Already today, achievements in this field help millions of people around the world to restore and improve the functions of the organ after accidents, strokes, injuries through the use of intelligent prostheses and implants.

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Neurotechnologies are at the junction of many modern scientific and technical areas: biology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physics, robotics, mechatronics. In addition, neurotechnologies are actively using and forming new fields of knowledge at the intersection of sciences: neurocybernetics, psychophysiology, wavelet analysis and many others.

After the first year of study at the Neuroquantum, the guys will know:
- anatomy of the nervous system and brain,
- fundamentals of physiology of higher nervous activity of a person,
- the relationship of physiological features with the psychology of behavior,
- the basics of algorithmization and programming,
- methods of analyzing human biosignals.

They will be able to:
- use modern equipment and software,
- conduct research on the properties of the nervous system,
- design anthropomorphic mechanisms,
- install and configure specialized software,
- control robots and quadrocopters with the power of thought,
- recognize the psycho-emotional state of a person based on the results of the analysis of his biosignals.

The training ends with the protection of their own projects developed by students individually or in a group of up to 3 people. Each project uses all the skills and abilities acquired during training.

The main directions of design in our Neuroquantum:

- Registration of the state of fatigue or sleep of the driver of the car by reading and analyzing biopotentials from the palms of sensors mounted on the steering wheel and notifying the operator of the critical condition of the driver
- Modeling of electroencephalographic signals in various patient conditions for training and testing of medical and technical personnel
- Recognition and visualization on a three-dimensional LED matrix of psychoemotional states of a person based on brain rhythms
- Modeling of the simplest unconditional and conditional human reflexes in technical devices.
- Development of autonomous digital neurochronometers of various types,
- Investigation of the functional structure of autonomous artificial intelligence controlling mechatronic devices based on the recognition of human biosignals.
- Development of an autonomous artificial intelligence system for the recognition of human biosignals and the formation of control commands for mechatronic devices."

Promobot is a Russian robotics startup that describes itself as the largest manufacturer of so-called ‘service robots’ in Northern and Eastern Europe. One of those products is a ‘companion robot’ called Robo-C, that it says can be manufactured to look like any celebrity, especially the ones that might perform menial household tasks.

“Marilyn Monroe will meet guests, William Shakespeare will tell children fairytales, and Cristiano Ronaldo will manage the smart home system,” its website promises. Although some of its unsettling lookalikes seem to only exist in online renderings, it actually has created a working robotic bust of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which has made appearances at CES and at the New York Toy Fair.

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Digital Trends, which saw the Schwarzenneger robot in February, said that the robot speaks in an unexpected British accent, but that it could “definitely pass for Arnold.” (Although its eyes appear to be wordlessly asking, if not begging, someone to please kill it, to please just take it out of this world.)


The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a ghastly golem and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square diarrhea probe is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in 2023.

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January 18, 2023
IMITATION ON THE VERGE OF MOCKERY, OR WHY THE LAW BANNING HOMO-PROPAGANDA NEVER WORKED

The beginning of the spring session of the State Duma was marked, among other things, by the activity of Deputy Alexander Khinstein and some other civil servants who depict violent activity to counteract the propaganda of sodomy. So, Khinstein was one of the first to announce the initiation of a protocol on an administrative offense against the publishers of a book about juvenile perverts "Summer in a Pioneer Tie", and the liberal media recently launched the news that VK, with the filing of Roskomnadzor, began massively blocking Internet resources of perverts. In fact, all this activity turned out to be nothing more than an imitation of violent activity – and the news about blocking was launched by the homosexuals themselves.

Let's start with Khinstein, whose role in all this struggle is clearly exaggerated, if only because he, as a deputy, did his job by introducing a bill. According to our sources in the law enforcement agencies, for almost a month and a half since the entry into force of the new version of the ban on propaganda of perversions (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code), only 2 administrative cases have been initiated in the Russian Federation, one of which, indeed, against the publishers of the notorious "Summer in a Pioneer Tie", Popcorn Books LLC. Moreover, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet developed even forms of protocols and methodological recommendations that police officers should follow in order to bring propagandists to justice. You can read more about this in the materials of the Commission for the Protection of Children from Destructive and Dangerous OS Content at Roskomnadzor, which met at the end of December, the situation has not changed since then.

Much more interesting is another news that was actively dispersed at the end of last week and the beginning of this week by liberal media and TG channels -that Roskomnadzor allegedly began massively blocking dating sites for homosexuals, and then other communities of fans to use the fifth point for other purposes. It was claimed, in particular, that the regulator blocked 306 pages of homopropaganda. But, alas, both news turned out to be fake—the overwhelming number of perverts' resources on the networks (and there are about 200,000 of them in the VK alone) continue to exist until now, and the news about page blocks was refuted by the homosexuals themselves, who admitted to journalists that they specially created a thematic site with allegedly blocked pages and drew a stub on it "This the resource is blocked by Roskomnadzor." In a personal correspondence with a correspondent of the publication "Cooperative", the author of this site, who has long escaped from Russia, said that he made it for the sake of mocking Roskomnadzor and "stupid Putin's laws."

Moreover, as explained to us in the public organization "Safe Internet League", "All current decisions on entering information with gay propaganda into the register of prohibited sites are made by Roskomnadzor according to the old order based on decisions of Rosmolodezh (they added destructive materials with LGBT propaganda to the temporary evaluation criteria) and decisions courts on the recognition of information prohibited for distribution in Russia. In order for the new law on extrajudicial blocking of homo-content to start working in full, in accordance with the new version of Article 16.2 of the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies" (149-FZ), introduced by deputies, the authorized body must approve the procedure for monitoring in order to identify such information. Without the monitoring procedure specified in this article, determining the types of information and information resources in respect of which it should be carried out, monitoring is impossible." Consequently, the implementation of the norms of the new law banning LGBT propaganda is significantly difficult, no matter how hard Mr. Khinstein tries to prove the opposite. In addition, in order to apply subparagraph "l" of paragraph 1 of Part 5 of Article 15.1 and other innovations of Law 149-FZ, it is necessary to adopt a subordinate regulatory act defining criteria for determining information promoting non-traditional sexual relations, p***philia, sex change. As it is done with respect to other types of information prohibited for dissemination, subject to entry in the register of prohibited sites. The Government of the Russian Federation is also obliged, in accordance with part 1 of Article 16.2 of the 149-FZ, to determine the organization authorized to carry out such monitoring"

According to Ekaterina Mizulina, director of the Safe Internet League, the criteria for determining the information to be blocked are planned to be approved only by the autumn of this year —which, of course, does not suit thousands of parents across the country who flood government agencies, public organizations and even Khinstein with their complaints. That is why it is necessary to demand from the Government, Roskomnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office to develop the necessary documents as soon as possible —and from Roskomnadzor also to open a special service on the agency's website, where every parent can complain about dangerous content. Such a proposal, by the way, was formulated at the Commission of the Public Council under the RCN mentioned by us – and has not yet been implemented, although the Government has already sort of adopted the necessary resolution.

It seems that it's more a matter of the technical side — the RCN may simply not have the tools for this kind of blocking (the so-called "search engine in a bad way", which Igor Ashmanov proposed to create at the Commission)— but in any case, this issue needs to be resolved as soon as possible. ""

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January 23, 2023
AP AND THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION BREAK THE DEEPEST BOTTOM: THE MUSICAL DEGENERATE EGOR CREED IS PROMOTED ON "CONVERSATIONS ABOUT IMPORTANT THINGS"

Many well remember how five years ago patriots and parents all over Russia began a crusade against "musical degenerates".We was at the center of this struggle with youth "musicians", whose main goal of "creativity" is to corrupt the new generation, turning it into cynical, narrow-minded asocials-hedonists. Since then, many copies have been broken, many concerts and tours of molesters around the country have been canceled, they were attracted for drug propaganda, and the dirtiest of them have already left the country and are even recognized as natural persons-foreign agents. But who would have thought that after the announcement by the president of Russia of a civilizational battle with Satanists and his signing of a decree on the protection of traditional values, one of these same music–born (with opposition to his concert in Makhachkala, everything began) – Egor Creed (Bulatkin) - will get into all Russian schools through compulsory extracurricular "Conversations about important things". And the key role in introducing children to this dirt is not even with the Ministry of Education, but with people in offices at a higher level, as our small investigation showed. We are sure that parents should not slow down this spit in the face from the organizers of "Conversations about important things" - everyone has the right to protect their child from destructive, if the responsible authorities have completely forgotten about their duties.

Many experienced teachers and educators were shocked to learn that on January 23 in the country's schools, within the framework of "Conversations about important things" on the topic "Media Literacy and digital hygiene", students, including grades 1 and 2, are invited to listen to the appeal of Egor Creed.
We will immediately answer the question "what's wrong with that?" with an important background. In the article from November 2018, we told that the son of a walnut oligarch from Penza Bulatkin was a trial balloon in the army of the musical degenerates. The media scandal broke out after the undefeated UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov publicly opposed Creed's concert in Makhachkala, noting that he did not want to corrupt his people. The concert was eventually canceled, but the liberal and official press began to expose the parents and all the sane opponents of these degraders as "radicals", "fundamentalists", etc.

Further, the problem only widened. Molesters of youth with microphones, who managed to include in their image and texts all possible dirt and antisociality, in pm prohibited for children under 436-FZ (and at their concerts initially either there were no age restrictions, or formally there were 16+) began to hoe the whole country, and all healthy forces, without collusion, organized the flow of applications to the relevant authorities to prevent their hostile influence on the new generation.

You can see for yourself in the search engine - how many appeals from public figures all over the country about the bans on performances of music-born people have been in recent years. Larger "shells" were added to the Creed, like Friendzone, Face, LJ, Morgenstern and other evil spirits (many, fortunately, have already left Russia, and Morgenstern is also recognized as an inagent). Every cancellation of the concert (and there were a lot of them), we perceived as a big common victory.

We have no desire to do this, but we will still have to bring the "lyrics" of Creed. They will explain everything better than any attempts at moralizing:

"Fuck you": "But I'm sorry, I'm climbing on others now; I'm telling you, fuck you, darling. Fuck you, bitch, under the word love! I'd break your fucking face in the blood. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you! And I'll fly from here to another planet. And it's easier to be gay than to be with someone like you! Are you offering sex?! I'd rather fuck my hand."

"Guchi": "This bitch is Chanel, this bitch is like Guchi. She's cooler than yours, cooler than all those bitches. My bitch is a model, three girlfriends for a bunch. This bitch Chanel, this bitch is like Gucci"

"What do they know?": "What do they know, those who haven't seen me are talking behind my back without pauses, like an old video. And those who used to hate So much falsehood climb into friends, I'm like in the hall, the most oh* ing spectator"

"I will spend": "There is so much sex in this baby (***) the devil has confused me, It beckons Me so much, how you bite my lips roughly. But you, my strongest alcohol. I drink, I wash it down with you and we go home."

"Lighters": "I'll call you affectionately a bitch, because you like it. I found your Gucci point, now let me relax. My lips are numb, I didn't even know she could do that. My hands are sweating on her body... I take two glasses, mix cocktails. I take these two and mix them with the third."

Fuck all your merits (fuck), Because we're walking in a circle (go), I know something about bitches (what), Because life is still s*ka (s*ka). We are confused by movies, confused by books, As if the finish will be beautiful. As if everyone is waiting for a happy ending, But we are in Russia - there are no happy people here (no)."

And now the brainless scum from the presidential administration, on the grounds that Creed is supposedly a great authority among schoolchildren (how, interestingly, if his audience according to the law (436–FZ) can only be 18 +?), promote this degenerate in compulsory classes in schools. To raise such a topic as digital hygiene. Apparently, as a great specialist in information and cybersecurity. It is very patriotic and traditional, the Ministry of Education, apparently, also believes that there are no happy people in our country.

What is even sadder, the matter here, obviously, is not even in the Ministry of Education – the wormhole in domestic politics is much deeper. At the end of November last year, in the Public Chamber, the expert Anna Shvabauer entered into a controversy with the "popularizer of science", the leading NTV Ekaterina Shugaeva. As we told, Shugaeva then acted as an apologist for "not banning children from anything on the Internet, because they will find everything anyway." Later it turned out that this lady is the wife of a high-ranking AP official Sergei Novikov, who is responsible for domestic policy.

As an example of showing and telling children about all kinds of dirt, content harmful to their health, so that "then they themselves made the right choice," Shugaeva then suggested that schoolchildren communicate with Egor Creed (a musical propagandist of this very dirt) as part of "Conversations about important things." And here we actually see Creed in "Conversations about Important Things" for grades 1-11...

It is hardly a coincidence, especially since the same Novikov is called by informed media sources a close friend of the producer of the First Channel Konstantin Ernst. And the same Egor Creed is on the jury of the children's project "The Voice" at the first. And he somehow "accidentally" moved to the UAE in advance shortly before the announcement of mobilization in Russia. I waited it out, and returned to molest our children and earn money from it. Unlike his friend Morgenstern, with whom Creed recorded a couple of clips. This Satanist with three sixes on his face has already left Russia and is officially recognized as a foreign agent (although, according to a number of media reports, they tried to negotiate with him until the last). Creed, on the other hand, took the path of compromise, which completely suits him. And it seems that not only him, but also the corresponding curators in the AP.

At the United Russia congress on December 7, 2018, Deputy Head of the AP Sergey Kiriyenko said literally the following:

"We need to be able to work with modern youth culture so that it doesn't turn into something when someone accidentally doesn't understand or they don't like it, it ends with concert bans. This is nonsense."

That is, the AP gave the green light to the molesters of youth, and at about the same time stories began to appear on federal channels, as well as fiery speeches by the chief state propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov in support of these "innocent" youth performers. That's what they have, "modern youth culture", which we, it turns out, "accidentally do not understand". We do not understand in any way and do not accept profanity, vulgarity, propaganda of hedonism, alcohol, drugs, violence and other antisocial behavior for our children. That's how stupid we are. This is a problem in us, it turns out!

As we can see, the realities of the SVO and the patriotic acts of the president in defense of traditional values have not changed anything. In a video recorded for "Talking about important Things" in schools, Creed first tells how rich and successful he is, then invites schoolchildren to his concerts and his resources in social networks.


And the offer from the Ministry of Education was expected to find its demand among children who loved asocialochka – after such a large-scale advertising in schools, Creed acquired several tens of thousands of subscribers. Moreover, in the full version of his "Conversation about Important Things" (which was not played in schools), the performer did not hesitate to show all his enemies his signature gesture, and his underage fans were completely delighted. And how else, if now serious adult uncles themselves recommend it to children? A real celebration of culture and healthy upbringing…

In general, this is a complete breakdown of the bottom from the AP and the Ministry of Education – there seems to be no one to knock lower. We are once again making sure who really rules the internal (including educational) policy in Russia. And as long as Shugaev and Novikov are allowed to do this, there is no need to wait for positive changes.

What should conscious moms and dads do in this situation? Only to act as a united front, to fight for our traditional school, not to forget that all of you are participants in the educational process and customers of education as taxpayers. Everyone can contact the administration of their school against such "Conversations about important things". To apply to the prosecutor's office and the FSB about the specific appearance of Egor Creed at school (there are more than enough examples with the above lyrics of his songs) and the demand to find and punish the perpetrators. So that no one else would think of dragging such dirt into classes. ""

Promobot, one of the largest manufacturers of autonomous service robots, promises that Europe will soon find itself “being invaded by robots” in the latest press release. ..
Russian robots are going to Europe. Promobot has signed a contract for the supply of robots for 18 million euros
September 24, 2019

Until 2024, about a thousand Russian robots will go to different European countries.

Promobot, a Russian manufacturer of autonomous service robots, has signed an exclusive contract with the Swiss company Advanced Robotics. From 2019 to 2024, Promobot will deliver about a thousand robots to Europe. Exclusive rights to the sale of Promobot robots extend to the entire territory of the European Union. The total amount of the contract is 18.5 million euros.

According to the agreement, in order to maintain the status of an exclusive distributor, the partner is obliged to fulfill the minimum purchase requirement: from 500 thousand euros in 2019 to 5 million euros in 2024. In case of non—fulfillment of obligations, the distributor must reimburse the manufacturer - thus, the volume of purchases is guaranteed. The document provides for full refund of the contract amount.

"We are very responsibly working out the option of interaction with partners when exclusivity depends on it, especially if we are talking about such a volume of countries — we actually "gave" the whole of Europe to our partners. It is important that we did not just sell robots, we found out in advance exactly what application cases were needed, what business processes robots would be embedded in, who the final customer of the product was," Alexey Yuzhakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promobot.

Promobot robots are autonomous service androids. They are used as consultants, administrators, guides and promoters in banks, museums, shops, government offices, residential and shopping centers.

"Specifically for this contract, we have developed unique software for our partners, which will be equipped with all robots running on this partner line. It is this software, together with the Promobot functionality, that allowed our partners to start negotiations with well—known brands - for example, the German Media Markt network. — continues Yuzhakov. — We would not have agreed to the transfer of exclusive rights if, together with a partner, we did not see the future, did not know the end customers, were not confident in the contract. Exclusive — only for specific obligations. This is important for us."

At the first stage of cooperation, the parties envisage the opening of service centers and sales offices in Romania, Germany and Austria during 2019-2020. In the future — as the market develops.

Gabriel Gantner, CEO of Advanced Robotics: "We have chosen Promobot as the most advanced service robot available on the market. While most of the analogues seem to be nothing more than gadgets, Promobot has all the potential to bring real benefits to business. Advanced robot AI, structural features and functionality are often superior to similar products on the robotics market. We plan to launch interactive applications that will partially work offline, and partially be controlled by a person through a telepresence service. We are going to develop applications for a concierge robot, an exhibition employee and other service positions."

According to Alexey Yuzhakov, the company is also considering the possibility of transferring part of its production processes to Europe. This will allow you to customize robots for local customers more quickly. Now promobots are going to Perm, on the basis of the technopark Morion Digital. All robots are 80% made up of Russian components. The company itself develops speech recognition systems, navigation, linguistic database, mechatronics, electronics, artificial intelligence. Russian Promobot specialists have also developed a microphone array that has no analogues in the world — this is a device with which promobots recognize people's speech even in the noisiest places.

"Robots are practically not used in Europe today, so we see great potential for development. We believe that in the next five years Promobot AI will be developed so much that it will be able to provide significant support to "live" employees, and in certain aspects even replace them. We are already negotiating with European networks of coworking and business centers, retailers and airports," Mr. Gantner continues.

The company "Promobot" was founded in 2015 in Perm. Since the same year, the company has been a resident of Skolkovo. Today Promobot is the largest manufacturer of autonomous service robots in Russia, Northern and Eastern Europe. Promobots work in 35 countries of the world as administrators, promoters, consultants, guides and concierges, replacing or supplementing "live" employees. Promobot robots can be found in the Moscow Metro, the Museum of Modern History of Russia, Sberbank NPF. All the company's products are manufactured and developed in Russia.

The robot "Alex" became the host of the news release on "Russia 24". It looks creepy!

April 16, 2019
The robot "Alex" from the Perm startup Promobot held a news release on the federal channel "Russia 24". He spoke about the international forum in Sochi, the results of the activities of the Ministry of Agriculture, the missing Moscow cat and other important events on the news agenda.

The basis of the appearance of "Alex" was the face of the founder of the company Alexey Yuzhakov. According to TASS, silicone casts were taken from Yuzhakov 11 times to create a 3D model of the face. The resulting mask was stretched over the robot's skull and hair and stubble were added.

It is emphasized that robot faces always turn out to be wider and more mature, since silicone is thicker than human skin and lacks muscle tone. 35 drives capable of simulating about 20 human emotions are responsible for the facial expressions of "Alex".

Promobot also presented "Alex" at the Skolkovo Robotics conference. The recording of the presentation can be viewed on the company's YouTube channel. The Perm startup has been developing "Alexa" since 2017, and work on it is not finished yet. The final version, according to Promobot co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev, will appear on the market in 18 months and will cost from a million rubles. The project budget is $1.5 million.

The creators believe that the robot can perform the work of a consultant in banks, post offices and insurance companies. "A social robot is needed where there is a high level of stress among customers and high stress tolerance of operators is required," Kivokurtsev noted.

Robots with faces that accurately repeat human facial expressions often frighten people, although they do not pose any danger. Afisha Daily wrote about why this is happening in a separate article.


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Alex now works at the Moscow Center of Public Services along with her colleague Dasha.