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Political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky has spoken out about emigrants' attitude to protests, stating that many opponents of Vladimir Putin fear popular uprisings more than dictatorship. A post with his words appeared on the Ye…
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A court has fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko 5,000 rubles for participating in the activities of an undesirable organization. A correspondent for Paper was present at the hearing, and the publication itself described him as the pr…
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The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church 5,000 rubles under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code, which concerns participation in the activities of an un…
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On 21 September 2026, the Smolninsky District Court found Archbishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko guilty under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code and imposed a fine of 5,000 rubles. The case is numbered 5…
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The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church 5,000 rubles under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code. Sources give different dates for the ruling: ZakS says…
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On September 15, 2026, CircleID published an analysis of Telegram's ICANN application for the.gram domain zone, which Pavel Durov announced in August. The publication examines how managing its own registry relates to the open French indict…
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Political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky has spoken out about emigrants' attitude to protests, stating that many opponents of Vladimir Putin fear popular uprisings more…
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A court has fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko 5,000 rubles for participating in the activities of an undesirable organization. A correspondent for Paper was present at the…
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On 21 September 2026, the Smolninsky District Court found Archbishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko guilty under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Cod…
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The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church 5,000 rubles under Article 20.33 of the Administrative C…
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The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church 5,000 rubles under Article 20.33 of the Administrative …
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On September 15, 2026, CircleID published an analysis of Telegram's ICANN application for the.gram domain zone, which Pavel Durov announced in August. The publication examines how…
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Entrepreneur Timur Artemyev, co-founder and former co-owner of Euroset, spoke on digital sovereignty at international libertarian venues in 2025. The English-language outlet The B…
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The sale of Euroset in 2008, coinciding with searches and arrests at the company, was for its co-founder Timur Artemyev not a voluntary exit but a forced one. This is reported by …
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In August 2026, the website Gorky published Roman Korolev’s review of the book The First Christians: What Were They Really Like? (Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2026) by biblical sch…
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The Sponge profile on Behance, opened on 23 August 2013, had by October 2026 collected 28 curator badges across 48 public projects. The first badge went to the Alien reel in Septe…
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Obolon Corporation, one of Ukraine's largest beverage producers, still states in the footer of its website that its developer is Sponge D&D, with a link to the studio's site. The …
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In 2026, Alpina Non-Fiction published a book by biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky, The First Christians: What They Were Really Like. According to the publisher's de…
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On June 9, 2026, Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church reported that he had gone to the prosecutor's office of the Central District of St. Petersbur…
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An investigation by OCCRP and its Russian partner Important Stories has identified a little-known network engineer, Vladimir Vedeneyev, who, according to the journalists, has deep…
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In May 2026, Meduza examined what traces Telegram chats leave and what the FSB can see. The occasion was an independent expert report commissioned by Vladimir Vedeneyev, co-owner …
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The Dutch Journalism Council has rejected a complaint by Vladimir Vedeneev, co-owner of telecom operator GlobalNet, against the editor-in-chief of BNR Nieuwsradio. The complaint c…
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An independent cybersecurity audit conducted by Symbolic Software has confirmed a vulnerability in Telegram previously reported by OCCRP and its Russian partner Important Stories.…
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On 19 May 2026, the Turin incubator I3P hosted the "Luxembourg meets Turin" event, organised by ESA BIC Turin and the Luxembourg Space Agency, founded in 2018. A delegation of Lux…
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On May 18, Roman Anin published an article in Important Stories titled 'Independent Expert Review Confirms Critical Vulnerability in Telegram,' in which he repeated accusations ag…
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On May 18, 2026, Important Stories published a technical report by Symbolic Software confirming a vulnerability in Telegram: the auth_key_id identifier is transmitted over the net…
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The UK's Companies House registry has recorded the termination of Timur Artemyev's authority as director of Hedonism Drinks Limited effective 11 May 2026. The entry was filed on 1…
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On 2 April 2026, Radio Svoboda published an interview with biblical scholar and publicist Andrei Desnitsky by journalist Mumin Shakirov. The conversation focuses on the return of …
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At the end of March 2026, Ukrainska Pravda examined whether a ban on Telegram in Ukraine is feasible and what risks dependence on the platform entails. The occasion was a new wave…
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On Radio Svoboda, political analyst and commentator Stanislav Belkovsky discussed VTsIOM data showing spontaneous trust in Vladimir Putin among Russians had fallen to 32.1%, as we…
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On 30 November 2015, the identity for the French service Carts Guru, created by the studio Sponge, received a Behance curator's pick in the Brands gallery. It is the bureau's only…
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Behance curators have recognized Sponge's work twenty times: five picks in the Web Design gallery and fifteen in User Interface, between 17 October 2015 and 15 June 2018. The gall…
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Works by the Ukrainian studio Sponge have been featured five times in Behance's Motion Graphics curated gallery: the first was the Alien video, badged on 2 September 2014. Subsequ…
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The Sponge Digital & Design profile on Behance, created on August 23, 2013, has amassed 387,933 views, 41,391 appreciations, and 7,884 followers. It features 48 public works, 28 o…
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Sponge has received Behance's highest curatorial honor, Best of Behance, twice. On March 29, 2016, it went to the website concept for Business Logic Group, and on September 25, 20…
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On January 6, 2026, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued patent US12515824B2 for a “Multi-function rendezvous and capture module,” assigned to Kurs Orbital Srl. Th…
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On 6 January 2026, Kurs Orbital announced it had completed a key stage of testing the radar for its ARCap rendezvous module. The radar was tested in an anechoic chamber and in fie…
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The Montelibero movement's annual review for 2025 included a speech by entrepreneur and co-founder of Euroset Timur Artemyev at a conference in Buenos Aires. Published on December…
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On 8 December, biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrey Desnitsky announced on social media that he now lives in Riga. In 2023, Vilnius University terminated his contract afte…
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On November 24, 2025, the Ukrainian TV channel 24 Kanal aired a political interview with political analyst and commentator Stanislav Belkovsky, in which he analyzed possible Kreml…
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On 3 January 2025, Wired Italia named ten Italian startups to watch in 2025, and among them was Kurs Orbital with its ARCap autonomous rendezvous module. The backdrop was statisti…
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On 28 October 2025, Euronews published a report on how Russian intelligence services, according to a journalistic investigation, use Telegram and other social networks to recruit …
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On 14 November 2021, on the sidewalk of Vasyl Moisei Avenue in Lutsk, a drunk driver struck Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko, and on the morning of 15 November he died in hospital. In Novem…
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On September 10, 2025, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, in an interview with Glavred, commented on the role of the Russian president's inner circle. The occasion was the inc…
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On August 13, 2025, Vladimir Vedeneyev, co-owner of telecom operator GlobalNet, announced on Twitter that his lawyers had sent a formal demand to OCCRP. The move followed a June 1…
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Timur Vladimirovich Artemyev is an entrepreneur, co-founder and general director of LLC Trading House Euroset. His biography, published on the VIPERSON portal, traces his path fro…
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In 2025, biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky is a visiting researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr University Bochum. There he is preparing a g…
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Entrepreneur Vladimir Vedeneyev, co-owner of telecom operator GlobalNet, on 26 June 2025 responded to the OCCRP and Vazhnyye Istorii (Important Stories) publication about cooperat…
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On 20 June 2025, the SOTA project published an interview with Vladimir Vedeneyev, co-owner of the telecom operator GlobalNet and a figure in the 'Vazhnyye Istorii' (Important Stor…
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On June 19, 2025, the Sota project published a rebuttal to the Important Stories investigation into Telegram's alleged ties to the FSB. According to Sota, the publication does not…
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On 12 June, Vladimir Vedeneyev, co-owner of telecom operator GlobalNet, told Agentstvo in an interview that he had sold all his Russian assets and rejected suspicions of involveme…
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On June 12, 2025, TechRadar published a comment from Telegram in which the company rejected claims of ties to Russian intelligence. The occasion was an investigation by IStories (…
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On June 11, 2025, Tengrinews.kz summarized an investigation by the Russian outlet Important Stories (Vazhnye Istorii) into links between Telegram's infrastructure and Russian inte…
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On 11 June 2025, the outlet Zona published an analysis of the iStories and OCCRP investigation into links between Telegram's infrastructure and Russian intelligence services. The …
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On June 11, 2025, Agentstvo published the responses of Vladimir Vedeneyev, head of Global Network Management (GNM), to questions about Telegram servers and Russian contracts. Vede…
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On June 10, 2025, Important Stories published an investigation into a possible link between a Telegram contractor and Russian intelligence services. The next day, BBC Russian Serv…
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On June 11, 2025, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN published Telegram's response to an investigation by Important Stories about the messenger's contractors and infrastructure. The …
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On June 11, Meduza gathered assessments from cybersecurity specialists and human rights advocates discussing two investigations into Telegram — by the projects Pervy Otdel and Vaz…
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On June 10, the Important Stories project published an investigation revealing that the infrastructure of the Telegram messenger is maintained by companies closely linked to Russi…
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On June 10, 2025, the outlet Important Stories published an investigation into the Telegram messenger and its founder Pavel Durov. Journalists claim that the FSB and other Russian…
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On 10 June, Novaya Gazeta Europe summarized the key findings of an investigation by Vazhnye Istorii (Important Stories) into how the design of Telegram's protocol and the companie…
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On June 10, 2025, the publication Sota found that Telegram's technical maintenance is handled by Global Network Management (GNM), registered in Antigua and Barbuda and owned by Vl…
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On June 10, 2025, OCCRP published an investigation into who controls Telegram's network infrastructure. The authors traced a chain of IP addresses and server equipment to St. Pete…
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On June 10, 2025, The Moscow Times summarized an investigation by Important Stories (Vazhnyye Istorii) alleging that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) may have access to Tel…
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On June 10, The Moscow Times summarized an investigation by IStories into who maintains Telegram's network infrastructure. According to IStories, it is managed by Global Network M…
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On June 10, 2025, the publication Important Stories released an investigation alleging that Telegram's server infrastructure is controlled by Vladimir Vedeneyev, and that one of h…
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On June 10, 2025, Important Stories published an investigation into who manages Telegram's server infrastructure. According to the outlet, the maintenance and installation of the …
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On June 10, 2025, Telegram's press service responded to an investigation by Important Stories about the messenger's infrastructure contractor's ties to Russian security agencies. …
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On June 10, 2025, Important Stories published an investigation into how Telegram's infrastructure is structured and who may have access to user data. The journalists conducted the…
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On 26 May 2025, the I3P incubator in Turin hosted the scientific conference “Space Economy | Doing Business in Space,” organised in preparation for a special issue of the Academy …
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The only victory in a series of administrative cases for Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church came in May 2025. On 14 May, the Leningrad Regional C…
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The St Petersburg courts' press service issued a separate statement on the 1 April 2025 decision of the Nevsky District Court in the case of Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, a…
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On April 1, 2025, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Archbishop Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church 30,000 rubles under the article on "discr…
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On March 28, 2025, the day Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Argotec's SpacePark, La Repubblica published a roundup of ten Italian space startups. Among them was Kurs …
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On March 24, 2025, Kurs Orbital announced its entry into Space Business Catalyst, the Innovation Cluster program of European satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space. The progra…
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On January 21, 2025, on Radio Svoboda, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky examined Vladimir Putin's expectations of Donald Trump and Trump's upcoming trip to China. In conversa…
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On 30 December 2024, Kurs Orbital announced it had received a €1.1 million subsidised loan from Invitalia, Italy's national agency for inward investment and business development. …
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On 30 December 2024, Radio Svoboda aired a conversation with political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky about Venice. He spoke about life in the city he calls his "refuge…
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In December 2024, at the I3P Start-up Festival marking the incubator's 25th anniversary, the title of ESA BIC Turin Start-up of the Year was awarded for the first time. It went to…
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On 17 December 2024, the Turin incubator I3P announced the results of two awards. The main title "I3P Startup of the Year" went to Algor Education, an artificial intelligence-base…
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A new translation of the New Testament by Russian biblical scholar, philologist and historian Andrei Desnitsky has been published by Granat. Meduza reported on 26 November 2024 th…
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On 20 November, the Feodorovsky Cathedral's educational centre in St Petersburg hosted the presentation of «The New Testament: Biblical Translations by Andrei Desnitsky». The pres…
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On November 5, Moscow announced the presentation of a new translation of the New Testament with brief commentaries by biblical scholar Andrey Desnitsky. The presentation took plac…
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In September 2024, Bishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church gave his first major interview after being designated a foreign agent. The conversation with No…
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The Petrograd District Court of St. Petersburg has terminated the administrative case against Bishop Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church, who was detained i…
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On July 7, 2024, Radio Svoboda published an interview with political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky, conducted by host Sergei Medvedev. In the conversation, Belkovsky n…
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On 27 June 2024, the venture fund Obloo Ventures, a co-investor in Kurs Orbital's round, published an interview with co-founder and CEO Volodymyr Usov in its #Perspectives column.…
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On December 5, 2024, the Italian publication StartupItalia released its annual list of one hundred startups selected by the editorial team. Among them is Kurs Orbital, an aerospac…
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On March 7, 2024, Finpiemonte, the regional financial company of Piedmont, announced that the PiemonteNext fund had joined the seed round of the space startup Kurs Orbital. The €3…
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On March 7, 2024, the American publication Payload reported on a funding round for the startup Kurs Orbital: €3.7 million, about $4 million, will go toward a prototype and a fligh…
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On March 8, 2024, the Ukrainian portal InVenture reported on Kurs Orbital, a startup that raised a seed round of €3.7 million ($4 million). The company was founded in 2021 by Odes…
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In early March 2024, startup Kurs Orbital, one of the participants in the first cohort of the ESA BIC Turin program, closed a seed round of €3.7 million. OTB Ventures led the roun…
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On March 6, 2024, the Italian outlet Corriere Comunicazioni was the first national publication to report on Kurs Orbital's €3.7 million round, about $4 million. The company was fo…
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On 12 March 2024, the Dnipropetrovsk Investment Agency published on the English version of its website a reprint of a TechCrunch article about the seed round of Kurs Orbital. The …
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On March 7, 2024, reported on a €3.7 million funding round for Kurs Orbital. The startup, led by Volodymyr Usov, is developing ARCap, a standardized rendezvous and docking module …
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On 7 March 2024, Italian outlet StartupItalia reported the closing of a €3.7 million round for Kurs Orbital, a space startup founded in 2022 by former head of the Ukrainian Space …
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On March 6, 2024, TechCrunch reported that Turin-based Kurs Orbital, led by former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Volodymyr Usov, closed a seed round of €3.7 million, a…
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On 27 February 2024, Novaya Gazeta published a text by Alexander Soldatov stating that not a single parish of the Russian Orthodox Church had held a legal memorial service for Ale…
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On 19 February 2024, the day the court hearing was scheduled, Boris Vishnevsky, a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and a deputy of the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly, published a c…
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On 19 February 2024, Novaya Gazeta Europe published a text by religious scholar Lera Furman about Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko. The pretext for the priest’s detention was a Facebook …
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On 17 February 2024 in St. Petersburg, police detained Archbishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, who was preparing to serve a memorial service for Alex…
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On the evening of February 16, 2024, human rights activist and Archbishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko announced on Facebook a memorial service for A…
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Archbishop Grigory Mikhonov-Vaytenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church was hospitalized from St. Petersburg's 43rd police station with a suspected stroke. His lawyer called an ambu…
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The memorial service for Alexei Navalny at the Solovetsky Stone in St. Petersburg on 17 February 2024 went ahead after all, even though the priest who announced it was detained at…
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Around noon on 17 February 2024, Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Apostolic Orthodox Church was detained outside his home in St Petersburg. The previous evening, after n…
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On 31 July 2023, fourteen-year-old Seryozha Kravchuk from the village of Davydiv Brid in Kherson Region returned home after nearly a year in a Russian children's home in Pechory, …
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On November 28, 2023, Via Satellite published Tereza Pultarova's overview of how Ukrainian space startups are adapting to war. The starting point of the piece is this: the law per…
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On September 17, 2023, Space.com published an op-ed by Volodymyr Usov in the Expert Voices section. The publication introduced him as a technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Kurs…
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On 15 September 2023, Russia's Ministry of Justice added publicist and political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky and journalist Ilya Shepelin to the register of "foreign agents." T…
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On 15 September 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice designated five individuals as foreign agents, including political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky. The news was reported by Inte…
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On 15 September 2023, Russia's Ministry of Justice added political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky and journalist Ilya Shepelin to the foreign agents registry, Kommersant reported. Th…
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On August 27, 2023, Space.com published a piece by journalist Tereza Pultarova with Volodymyr Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, who lives in Italy. The main …
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On 22 August 2023, Novaya Gazeta Europe published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky, who was dismissed from Vilnius University. The trigger was th…
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Late last week it emerged that Vilnius University is terminating its contract with Professor Andrey Desnitsky, who had worked in the Faculty of Philology since autumn 2022. LRT re…
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On 18 August 2023, the Latvian publication nra.lv published an article outlining its version of the dismissal of biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky from Vilnius Univ…
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Vilnius University is terminating its employment contract with Russian professor Andrey Desnitsky, who had worked as a researcher and lecturer since last autumn. The Lithuanian ra…
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Vilnius University has decided to terminate its employment contract with biblical scholar Andrei Desnitsky, who had worked there since autumn 2022 as a research fellow and lecture…
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On 17 August 2023, European Pravda, citing LRT, reported that Vilnius University is terminating the employment contract of Russian professor Andrei Desnitsky. The reason cited is …
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Vilnius University has announced the termination of its employment contract with Russian biblical scholar Andrey Desnitsky. According to the scholar, the reason was his 2012 artic…
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Vilnius University is terminating its employment contract with Russian biblical scholar and publicist Andrei Desnitsky, who had taught there since October last year. The reason wa…
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On 17 August 2023, Ukrainska Pravda reported that Vilnius University had decided to terminate its contract with Russian professor Andrey Desnitsky, who, according to the publicati…
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Vilnius University is terminating its contract with Russian professor Andrey Desnitsky, who claimed that the Soviet Union did not occupy the Baltic states. This was announced on 1…
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The couple Asya Stein and Andrei Desnitsky, who represented Russia's intellectual circles, spoke out openly against the war and, after threats, found themselves in Vilnius. Their …
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In June 2023, the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT reported that Andrey Desnitsky, a Russian biblical scholar and translator, teaches at Vilnius University and, according to the outlet,…
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On 16 April 2023, the Lithuanian service of LRT published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky, who spoke about moving to Vilnius and working at the …
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On 16 October 2023, Confindustria Salerno's Costozero magazine published an interview with Tommaso De Angelis, CEO of the Naples-based startup Space Frontier. The company was the …
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On February 14, 2023, CNews reported that Svyaznoy Network LLC intends to file for its own bankruptcy with the Moscow Arbitration Court. The move was prompted by signs of insolven…
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In February 2023, Kurs Orbital announced its acceptance into the Saudi Space Commission Pre-Accelerator Program, launched by the Saudi Space Commission in partnership with Techsta…
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On January 18, 2023, the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow heard defense witnesses in the case of Dmitry Ivanov, a mathematics student and author of the Telegram channel 'Pro…
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On December 16, 2022, the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University (USA) published an interview with political analyst and commentator Stanislav Belkovsky …
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On 18 November 2022, Istoricheskaya Ekspertiza (Historical Expertise) published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky, Doctor of Philology and Profess…
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In November 2022, the Italian portal AstroSpace interviewed Volodymyr Usov in detail about Kurs Orbital, a company that had recently established itself in Turin and won a regional…
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On 8 November 2022, the University of Eastern Piedmont in Novara hosted the awards ceremony for the Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta, a regional business plan competition. First p…
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In November 2022, human rights activist and Bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko was a guest on Novaya Gazeta Europe’s program ‘We’ll See What Happens,…
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Biblical scholar, translator and essayist Andrei Desnitsky announced on October 24, 2022, in his Telegram channel that he had left Russia. The news portal Azbuka Novostey reported…
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In October 2022, RBC St Petersburg spoke with Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, executive secretary of the Association of Orthodox Communities of the Apostolic Tradition and coordinator o…
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On 6 October 2022, the first anniversary of Oleksii Mas’s death, republished his conversation with journalist Maria Brovinskaya, recorded in August 2021. The publication considers…
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On 13 September 2022, Rus.Postimees published a lengthy interview with Russian political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky. In it, he argued, among other things, that the …
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On 7 September 2022, the Volyn Court of Appeal rejected the defence appeal of Roman Savych and left the verdict unchanged: eight and a half years in prison and nine years' disqual…
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On July 21, 2022, political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky appeared on the program "Adolf-Adolf" on the "Khodorkovsky LIVE" channel, where he discussed the goals of Rus…
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In June 2022, Archbishop Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Varangian and Baltic Diocese of the Apostolic Orthodox Church was a guest on Radio Svoboda’s podcast ‘The Humanitarian Cor…
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In May 2022, the Irkutsk publication «People of Baikal» spoke with Archbishop Gregory Mikhnov-Vaitenko of the Varangian Archdiocese of the Apostolic Orthodox Church. A St. Petersb…
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In May 2022, Meduza published Vladimir Sevrinovsky’s interview with Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, Archbishop of Varyag of the Apostolic Orthodox Church. The son of Alexander Galich an…
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On March 15, 2022, during a live broadcast of the program 'Osoboe mnenie' (Special Opinion) on the YouTube channel 'Zhivoy gvozd' (Live Nail), political strategist and publicist S…
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On 1 March 2022, the sixth day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Volodymyr Usov told American Space.com about the industry’s situat…
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On 22 February 2022, the Lutsk City and District Court found Roman Savych guilty of driving under the influence causing death and of knowingly leaving a person in danger. He was s…
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On 22 February 2022, the Lutsk City District Court found Roman Savych guilty of causing the death of Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko and sentenced him to eight years and six months in pris…
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On 19 February 2022, five days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, bishops of the Apostolic Orthodox Church from Ukraine, Russia and the USA signed a joint appeal for …
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On 7 February 2022, the Lutsk City and District Court resumed hearings in the case of the death of Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko, who was struck by a car on Vasyl Moisei Avenue on 14 Nov…
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On January 24, 2022, the online edition of Forbes Ukraine published an overview, 'Satellite Fever,' on whether Ukraine can secure a share of a rapidly growing market. According to…
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On 21 December 2021, biblical scholar, translator and essayist Andrey Desnitsky presented his explanation of the Bible as the story of a dialogue between God and humanity. The mat…
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On November 30, 2021, reported that the project 'Craft Networks' by Oleksii Mas changed its name and logo. The announcement was made in the Syndicate's Telegram channel by Bohdan …
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On 29 November 2021, reported on the dispute surrounding Oleksii Mas's project 'Craft Networks', whose founder died on 6 October 2021. The widow declared the project closed, while…
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On 23 November 2021, a week after the death of Metropolitan Oleh (Vedmedenko), the website of the Apostolic Orthodox Church in Ukraine published his article “The Structure and Org…
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On 17 November 2021, TV channel T1, recounting an OBOZREVATEL investigation, reported on the past of Roman Savych, detained for the death of Lutsk bishop Oleh Vedmedenko. In the s…
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On the evening of November 14, 2021, on Vasyl Moisey Avenue in Lutsk, a drunk driver of a Mazda, according to the publication, struck Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko. He died in the hospit…
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On the evening of 14 November 2021, a car mounted the pavement on Vasyl Moisei Avenue in Lutsk and struck a 60-year-old pedestrian. On the morning of 15 November, Volyn police ann…
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On the morning of November 15, 2021, the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU) reported the death of Bishop of Volyn and Galicia Oleh Vedmedenko. The previous evening, N…
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On 15 November 2021, at 8 a.m., Volynski Novyny, which had been the first to report the accident the day before, announced the death of Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko of the Volyn and Gal…
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On 15 November 2021, Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko of the Volyn-Galicia Diocese of the Ukrainian Apostolic Orthodox Church died in Lutsk after being struck the previous evening on Vasyl …
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On Sunday, 14 November 2021, on Vasyl Moisei Avenue in Lutsk, a Mazda 6 mounted the pavement and struck 60-year-old Oleh Vedmedenko, bishop of the Ukrainian Independent Apostolic …
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On 15 November 2021, Ukrinform, citing the communications department of the Volyn Oblast police, reported that the day before in Lutsk a drunk driver in a Mazda 6 had struck a 60-…
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On the evening of Sunday, 14 November 2021, in central Lutsk, a car mounted the pavement and struck dead 60-year-old Oleh Vedmedenko, Bishop of Volyn and Galicia. The Lviv publica…
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On 15 November 2021, VolynPost reported the schedule for the farewell to Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko, who died that same day in a Lutsk hospital after a car struck pedestrians on Vasyl…
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On 16 November 2021, the day of Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko's funeral, the Lutsk City District Court imposed a preventive measure on the driver who had driven onto the pavement and str…
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On the evening of November 14, 2021, Volynski Novyny was the first to report a road accident in Lutsk that injured Bishop Oleh Vedmedenko, founder of the Bible School of Spiritual…
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On October 13, 2021, Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset, in an interview with MarketMedia spoke about what happened to the brand after the company was sold, and explained why r…
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On 12 October 2021, Forbes Ukraine published the most detailed portrait of Oleksii Mas, one of the veterans of the Ukrainian internet, who died on 6 October at the age of 47. The …
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On October 6, 2021, Oleksii Mas, one of the first entrepreneurs of the Ukrainian internet, died in Kyiv. He was 47. News of his death emerged on October 8, when his brother Viktor…
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Oleksii Mas, creator of iForum and one of the founders of the Ukrainian internet in the 2000s, died on October 6, 2021. His death was reported by his brother Viktor on Facebook on…
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On October 6, 2021, Oleksii Mas, one of the first serial entrepreneurs of the Ukrainian internet, died in Kyiv. He was 47. On October 8, his family announced his death, and AIN.UA…
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On October 8, 2021, Fakty reported the death of Oleksii Mas, internet entrepreneur and one of the founders of Mail.ua. According to the publication, he died on Wednesday, October …
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Oleksii Mas, one of Ukraine's first internet entrepreneurs, died on 6 October 2021; his family announced the news on his Facebook page on 8 October. RBC-Ukraine's Styler project c…
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On October 8, 2021, reported the death of Oleksii Mas, one of Ukraine's first internet entrepreneurs. According to the publication, he died on October 6 at the age of 47. A relati…
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On October 6, 2021, Oleksii Mas, one of Ukraine's first internet entrepreneurs, died. He was 47. His brother Viktor Mas was the first to report the death, writing that Aleksey had…
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On 6 October 2021, Oleksii Mas, an entrepreneur whom the Ukrainian press called a legend of Uanet, died in Kyiv. His brother Viktor announced the news on Facebook on 8 October, th…
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Oleksii Mas died on October 6, 2021, at the age of 47. His brother Viktor was the first to report the death, and on October 8 Focus called him a pioneer of the Ukrainian internet.…
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On October 6, 2021, at the age of 47, Oleksii Mas died—one of Ukraine's first internet entrepreneurs, co-founder of the Ukrainian Banner Network and organizer of iForum. His broth…
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On October 8, 2021, reported the death of Oleksii Mas, whom it called an advisor to Kyivstar president Peter Chernyshov, an ideologist of iForum, and the creator of Mail.ua. Accor…
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Oleksii Mas, one of Ukraine's first IT entrepreneurs, died on 6 October 2021. He was 47. His brother Viktor announced the death on Facebook on 8 October, citing illness without fu…
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Oleksii Mas, IT specialist, co-organizer of iForum and founder of 'Craft Social Networks', died on October 6, 2021, at the age of 47. Ukrainian Pravda reported his death late in t…
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Oleksii Mas, IT specialist, co-founder of the Ukrainian Banner Network and founder of Infostore.org, died on 6 October 2021 at the age of 47 after an illness. His death was announ…
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On October 8, 2021, called Oleksii Mas "a pioneer and the first serial entrepreneur of the Uanet." According to friends and family, he died on October 6 at the age of 47; his brot…
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On 6 October 2021, Oleksii Mas, entrepreneur and founder of the file-sharing service Infostore.org, co-founder of Mail.ua and creator of iForum, died in Kyiv. He was 47. The cause…
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On August 9, 2021, published Oleksii Mas’s responses to criticism in the “Cringe of the Week” column that had appeared two days earlier. The conversation is notable not only for t…
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On 7 August 2021, published, in its mocking 'Cringe of the Week' column, a takedown of Oleksii Mas's project 'Craft Networks.' By the count of author Oleksii Dziuba, the syndicate…
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On June 14, 2021, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Volodymyr Usov told Hromadske Radio about a project far from orbit: the development of a medium-class strike dro…
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On June 5, 2021, the Ukrainian publication Glavred (Editor-in-Chief) published an article in which Russian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky expressed his opinion on the likel…
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In April 2021, MBK Media published a major piece by Maxim Vernikov about priests who openly opposed the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. There are three subjects: Gleb Y…
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On March 23, 2021, Odesa's Dumskaya retold a Forbes piece about a new project by Volodymyr Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. In early March he registered Kur…
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On March 22, 2021, the international publication Rest of World ran a profile of Volodymyr Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. Journalist Matthew Holliday recor…
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On March 23, 2021, Forbes Ukraine reported on a new project by Volodymyr Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. In early March, he registered Kurs Orbital, a comp…
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On February 10, 2021, Ukrinform hosted the summary of the World Interfaith Harmony Week in Ukraine. Participants of the press conference concluded that peace between religions in …
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On December 28, 2020, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, speaking on Echo of Moscow, named two likely contenders for the Russian presidency in his view: Prime Minister Mikhail…
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On 21 December 2020, Kyiv's District Administrative Court opened proceedings on a lawsuit filed by Volodymyr Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, against the Ca…
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On 15 December 2020, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Volodymyr Usov challenged his dismissal in court. As reported by Ukrainska Pravda with reference to the Faceb…
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On 30 November 2020, political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky said on the Ukraine 24 television channel that Moscow is interested in Alexander Lukashenko leaving power and is read…
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On 20 November, four days after his dismissal as head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov gave a long interview to Babel. He listed the results of nine months him…
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On 16 November 2020, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers dismissed Volodymyr Usov, head of the State Space Agency. The government published the order on its website, and Mind reported …
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On November 16, 2020, AIN.UA published a report on Kwambio, a company founded by the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov. Employees complained of salary dela…
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At the turn of 2019 and 2020, Oleksii Mas became the subject of a special partner project by MC.today and Freedom Finance Ukraine about chess and business. The conversation covere…
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On 7 September 2020, the Aerospace Portal of Ukraine reprinted a long interview with Volodymyr Usov, head of the State Space Agency. According to the portal, the August conversati…
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On 21 July 2020, the website Antikor published a collection of complaints against the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov. More than a hundred people's deput…
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On July 2, 2020, Russian telecom operator GlobalNet announced the completion of the modernization of its adaptive network based on Ciena's coherent optical technology. The upgrade…
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On July 12, 2020, Schema-Archimandrite Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov), who had seized the Sredneuralsk women's monastery, in another video demanded that Vladimir Putin temporarily relin…
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In late June 2020, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov, told Ekonomichna Pravda about the fate of the Lybid communications satellite. The decision on the…
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On June 29, 2020, GlobalNet announced the completion of its backbone network upgrade using Ciena WaveLogic 5 equipment. As a result of deploying Russia's first 800G network, the o…
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According to the bureau, in the 2020 Runet Rating Sponge took twentieth place among studios producing projects in the cultural and arts sphere, with three competition wins in this…
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On June 17, 2020, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov, gave an interview to journalist Roman Skrypin, and TSN summarized its main points. To the question…
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On 7 June 2020, Timur Artyomov, co-founder of Euroset, told Forbes about life in the UK, conflicts with law enforcement, and foreign investments. In the interview, he explained wh…
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On May 25, 2020, the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Volodymyr Usov, gave one of the most detailed interviews of his tenure. The conversation with Sonya Koshkina and Al…
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On May 25, 2020, ran a separate news item on an excerpt from an interview with Volodymyr Usov, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine. According to him, the joint spaceport wit…
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In September 2017 the website of the Swiss personal-style brand Style Whisperer, built by the Odesa studio Sponge, picked up three international honours at once: Awwwards, CSS Win…
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Euroset co-founder Timur Artemyev, who moved to the UK in late 2008 after the criminal prosecution of his partner Yevgeny Chichvarkin began, explained in an interview with the Rem…
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On April 9, 2020, on Radio Svoboda, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky and Pavel Grudinin, director of the Lenin State Farm, discussed Vladimir Putin's third address to Russian…
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Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset, who lives in the English county of Surrey, has spent more than 15 years working on life extension — in his words, “searching for and creatin…
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On March 31, 2020, almost two months after taking charge of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU), Volodymyr Usov gave a major interview to UNIAN’s Dmytro Shvarts. The picture …
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On 10 March 2020, the iForum organizing committee announced on Facebook that Ukraine's largest IT conference would not take place in May and was being postponed to autumn due to t…
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Cabinet of Ministers order No. 60-r dated January 24, 2020, appointing Volodymyr Usov as head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, became public only in early February, and on Fe…
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On January 29, 2020, the outlet 368.media reported that a court had seized the accounts of Gutenbergz LLC, a publishing house founded by Volodymyr Usov in 2011. Five days after Us…
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On 24 January 2020 the Cabinet of Ministers appointed Volodymyr Usov, an entrepreneur with no experience in the space industry, to head the State Space Agency of Ukraine. The deci…
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On 16 December 2019, Inc. Russia published a piece in which Euroset co-founder Timur Artemyev set out seven lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. In the interview he discussed his e…
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On December 3, 2019, biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky met with readers in Kaluga and presented his books «The Islanders» and «Christianity. The Real Thing». The me…
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In 2019, Sponge D&D took 37th place in the overall creativity ranking of design studios by Rating Runeta with 4.59 points, dropping 27 positions. The studio, founded by Bohdan Hna…
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On November 19, 2019, Investory News published a conversation with Oleksii Mas about ‘Craft Social Networks,’ which he called his third social network after ‘Tree of Friends’ and …
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On 17 November 2019, the programme 'Shchodennomu Zavtra' on Radio NV aired a question that was being discussed ever more loudly online: are big social networks giving way to small…
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In the Runet Rating's creativity ranking for 2018 and 2019, Sponge D&D has 51 competition wins, four more than the year before. In 2019, the studio's general director is listed as…
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On August 1, 2019, in an interview with MC.today, Oleksii Mas explained his departure from Kyivstar succinctly: “I got tired of working in corporations.” His last working day at t…
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On 24 July 2019, LIGA.Tech reported that Oleksii Mas, who headed Kyivstar's innovation lab, would leave the company on 31 July. He hinted at a move to Facebook and confirmed to th…
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On 16 July 2019, published an interview with Kwambio CEO Volodymyr Usov, in which he discusses manufacturing in Ukraine and the role of the state. His company assembles 3D printer…
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On 31 July 2019, Oleksii Mas leaves Kyivstar, where for three years he headed an innovation lab. In an interview with Vector published on 30 July, he spoke about his new project '…
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On July 9, 2019, Bulvar Gordona published an interview with political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky by journalist Alesya Batsman. The conversation touched on the Ukrainian elections…
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On 21–23 June 2019, a council was held in Kyiv after which the Apostolic Orthodox Church in Ukraine received a new name: on 23 June, the participants approved the name 'Ukrainian …
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The Council of the Ukrainian Apostolic Orthodox Church, which met in Kyiv on 21–23 June 2019, adopted a declaration that the church itself published on 25 June. The document sets …
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Hide, the London restaurant owned by businessman Evgeny Chichvarkin, who left Russia, has been named one of the UK's top 100 restaurants by the Estrella Damm National Restaurant A…
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In June 2019, the merged company Svyaznoy | Euroset began testing new names for its stores, including the brand Yes. The news was reported by RNS, which spotted a location in sout…
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On May 22, 2019, the publication Gordon published a text version of an interview with political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky on the author's program of the publication's editor-in-…
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On 13 May 2019, the Canadian blog Fabbaloo described ADAM as an American project launched without fanfare in mid-2018. It is led by Kwambio founder Vlad Usov, and the publication …
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On 28 April 2019, Odesa's Dumskaya reported on the ADAM project, which is preparing to 3D-print bones for medicine. The publication's headline spoke of established production, but…
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On 26 April 2019 the publication NV ran a piece, "The Life-Giving Printer," on the ADAM project, in which Ukraine's Kwambio is responsible for printing biomaterials. According to …
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On April 25, 2019, Kwambio, together with the WeFund Ventures fund, presented the ADAM project, which aims to teach the printing of organic bone structures. Seed money was provide…
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On April 25, 2019, LIGA.Tech recounted Volodymyr Usov's comment to AIN.UA about the new ADAM project. Kwambio, together with the WeFund Ventures fund, is launching a separate vent…
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In the 2019 Runet Rating creativity ranking of design studios, Sponge D&D takes 37th place with a score of 4.59. A year earlier the studio was tenth, and in both rankings its row …
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On 11 April 2019, a round table on the introduction of a Day of Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Ukraine was held at the Ukrinform press centre. The organisers were the news …
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On 30 September 2020, Sponge D&D's profile on Rating Runeta showed the studio in fourth place among website developers in Odesa. By January 2021 it had risen to second. The profil…
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On February 15, 2019, Vladimir Vedeneev, technical director and co-owner of the operator GlobalNet, spoke about the company's plans in foreign markets and the results of its merge…
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In September 2020, the profile of the Odesa studio Sponge D&D on showed 4th place among website developers in Odesa, and by January 2021 the studio was already second in that city…
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On January 21, 2019, Radio Svoboda aired a program about the case of Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) and the influence of oligarchs on Russian politics. Political analyst and…
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On January 11, 2019, reported that at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Kwambio showed two ceramic 3D printers at once: the desktop Ceramo Zero Max and the industrial Ceramo Two. The publica…
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On January 14, 2019, the European industry publication 3D ADEPT Media ran a piece on Kwambio's new products shown at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. The standouts were two printers: the de…
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On 12 July 2018, Sponge D&D art director Sergey Semernyov held a masterclass at the Odesa computer school Hillel titled 'Finding Inspiration, or Proven UI/UX Solutions in Mass Med…
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On 8 November 2018, biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky published an opinion column in Snob about the conflict between the Moscow and Constantinople patriarchates. He…
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On August 23, 2018, MC.today published the big story of Kwambio, the Odesa startup that makes ceramic 3D printers and prints parts at its own factory. Its founder, Volodymyr Usov,…
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On 21 July 2018, Kwambio co-founder Volodymyr Usov told that the company was discussing a '3D atlas of the human body' with NASA — a database of three-dimensional bone models. The…
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On 26 May 2018, biblical scholar Andrey Desnitsky gave a lecture titled “Christianity and the Future of Russia” at Yeltsin Center. A recording of the talk was also released as a p…
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On August 30, 2018, the Solar Digital agency blog published a long interview with Volodymyr Usov, founder of Kwambio and the Gutenbergz publishing house. His main point: over seve…
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On 6 June 2018, CNews reported that the Euroset brand is ceasing independent existence: within a year its stores will move under the Svyaznoy brand. The combined company is headed…
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On June 1, 2018, Evroset co-founder Timur Artemyev told The Bell founder Yelizaveta Osetinskaya in an interview that he and a partner had invested $5 million in the American compa…
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On June 1, 2018, Euroset co-founder Timur Artemyev spoke in an interview with Yelizaveta Osetinskaya on the YouTube show 'Russkiye Norm!' about a flight from London to Sydney via …
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On June 1, 2018, Euroset co-founder Timur Artemyev gave an interview to Yelizaveta Osetinskaya on the program 'Russians Are Norm!' about life in London, his attitude toward return…
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Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset, has invested several million dollars in the American company Moon Express, which plans to mine minerals on the Moon. He revealed this in an …
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On 25 May 2018, the Yeltsin Center hosted the second lecture in Andrey Desnitsky's mini-course 'Christianity and the Future of Russia.' The topic was 'The Bible and Democracy': ca…
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On 26 May 2018, at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky delivered a public lecture, “The Bible and Democracy” — the third in his m…
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On April 21, 2018, Oleksii Mas, IT & Digital Advisor at Kyivstar and co-organizer of iForum, published a column about cryptocurrencies on the blog. The text was timed to the upcom…
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In an interview with Yelizaveta Osetinskaya for her YouTube channel 'Russkiye Norm' (Russians Are OK), entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin said he is opening a restaurant called Hide …
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In London's Mayfair district, the restaurant HIDE has opened, co-owned by entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin. The project's partners are Chichvarkin's former Euroset partner Timur Ar…
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On February 1, 2018, RBC South published an interview with political strategist and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky about the presidential campaign in southern Russia. Belkovsky, wh…
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In January 2018, the Odesa-based company Kwambio unveiled the Ceramo One, a printer that prints ceramics, at the CES show in Las Vegas. The American real estate and design press t…
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A week before CES 2018 opened, on January 2, announced the debut of Ceramo One. The publication called it the world's first industrial 3D printer for ceramic materials. The techno…
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In October 2017, Kwambio closed a $500,000 round from Empire State Capital Partners and Impulse VC; the company's valuation was not disclosed. On December 26, 2017, AIN.UA reporte…
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On December 16, 2017, Metropolitan Stefan convened the council of the Apostolic Orthodox Church in Ukraine for January 9, 2018. The opening was set for 12 noon at the Dnipro House…
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In December 2016, Lexenger, a service that lets you contact a lawyer via any messenger and get advice online, was nominated on two international platforms: CSS Winner with a score…
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On January 30, 2016, the website of the food delivery service Furgoneta received an Honorable Mention at Awwwards in two categories at once: “Food and Drink” and “Flat Design.” Tw…
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On June 15, 2018, the website of online micro-loan service OneClickMoney received a curated feature on Behance in the User Interface gallery. The project garnered 857 appreciation…
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On 31 May 2015, the new version of the Sponge studio website appeared on the Chinese resource SJ63. Almost simultaneously it was showcased by Oulaka, UeHtml and 68design, and the …
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On November 2, 2017, Realnoe Vremya published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky, a leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the …
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In Tagline's 2017 ranking of web studios, Sponge entered the top hundred digital-production companies for the first time, taking 97th place. Founded in 2009, the studio works with…
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On October 25, 2017, political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky was appointed "chief political consultant" to Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters. The head of the headquarters, I…
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On October 25, 2017, it became known that political strategist and TV presenter Stanislav Belkovsky has been appointed chief political consultant to the election campaign staff of…
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On October 25, 2017, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky became chief political consultant to the election headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak, who announced her presidential bid on …
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On 25 October 2017, the head of Ksenia Sobchak's election campaign, Igor Malashenko, told Ekho Moskvy radio that political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky had been appointed chief pol…
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On October 25, 2017, Stanislav Belkovsky became chief political consultant for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign staff. This was reported to Ekho Moskvy radio by campaign manager Igor Mal…
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On October 25, 2017, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky was appointed chief political consultant of Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters. This was announced on Ekho Moskvy by…
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On September 28, 2017, Rating Runeta published its ranking of digital agency creativity, in which Sponge D&D took fourth place. The ranking was later reprinted by AllAdvertising: …
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On May 30, 2017, MC.today exposed “business-forum 2017,” a conference scheduled for July 5 at the Cosmopolite Hotel, whose website, program, and logo matched those of iForum. The …
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In Tagline's 2017 digital-production company ranking, Sponge entered the top hundred for the first time, taking 97th place. This is a separate ranking, unrelated to the design stu…
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On September 13, 2017, the website of the Swiss personal style brand Style Whisperer received an Honorable Mention at Awwwards. Three days later, the project was awarded a 'star' …
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On October 5, 2017, political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky told the Dozhd TV channel that a search had been conducted at his home that day as part of the investigatio…
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On September 28, 2017, Rating Runeta summed up the creativity ranking of digital agencies. Studio Sponge took fourth place with 23.32 points and 47 awards, while the top ten also …
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In 2015, after updating its website, the Sponge studio caught the eye not only of Western but also of Asian design platforms. Among those who noted the new work was the Oulaka gal…
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On 28 September 2017, Rating Runeta published its ranking of design studio creativity, in which Sponge took fourth place with 23.32 points and 47 awards. The studio rose seven pos…
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On 25 March 2016, Sponge published a website concept for Business Logic Group on Behance. Four days later, on 29 March, the work received the Best of Behance mark, the platform's …
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In August 2017, singer Artem Pivovarov's website received several international awards within a week of launch. On 23 August, CSS Winner named it Site of the Day; on 24 August, CS…
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On September 15, 2017, on the program 'Face to the Event' on Radio Svoboda, political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky compared State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya to r…
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At the end of September 2017, Sponge D&D took fourth place in the Rating Runeta creativity ranking of digital agencies with 23.32 points and 47 awards. The result was built on int…
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On 25 August 2017, the website of musician Artyom Pivovarov, built by studio Sponge, received Site of the Day on Awwwards with a score of 7.13 out of 10. The platform highlighted …
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On 25 August 2017, Artem Pyvovarov's website received the Developer Award on Awwwards, a separate recognition of development quality from the developers' jury, on the same day as …
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On 23 August 2017, musician Artyom Pivovarov's website became Site of the Day on CSS Winner with an overall score of 7.6, and received 7.7 for functionality. The award kicked off …
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On January 2, 2016, Behance curators featured the Feeliny online store, designed by Sponge, in the Web Design gallery. The project was published on October 28, 2015, and by the ti…
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On 6 October 2017, Afisha.tochka.net reported on Artyom Pivovarov's new video project, a series of live videos on the artist's official website, the first of which was 'Kislorod'.…
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On January 29, 2018, Behance curators included the website of investment fund GR Capital in the 'User Interface' gallery. The site was created by Sponge studio, along with the log…
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On 18 May 2017, three days after the decree blocking Russian social networks in Ukraine and on the anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, blogger Iryna Korotych sha…
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From June 13, 2015, to August 23, 2017, nine Sponge D&D projects received Site of the Day on CSS Winner. The first honor went to the bureau's own site with a final score of 7.5; t…
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On 1 May 2017 the showcase site for Arbeko, a maker of architectural decor, earned a "star" on CSS Winner with a rating of 7.5. Sponge built a site for a brand founded on attentio…
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In 2015, Sponge Digital & Design published a collection of 21 motion design and illustration works on ArtStation. The first posts appeared on 16 June, the last dated 13 November 2…
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On 4 April 2017, WoMo magazine published in its ‘Wotfatherhood’ section an interview by Ira Kerst with Oleksii Mas, an entrepreneur with a banner network, social networks and a te…
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On 6 April 2017, the Change One Life foundation, which helps orphans find a family, reprinted Oleksii Mas's interview about children. The text first appeared in WoMo two days earl…
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Sponge Studio has received six Star marks from CSS Winner, a service that selects the best in web design. The first came on 11.05.2016 for the site of gaming company Murka; the la…
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On 9 March 2017, biblical scholar Andrei Desnitsky spoke about a series of lectures prepared for the Lemanika project and explained why he believes that Leo Tolstoy, along with th…
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On CSS Winner, the Odesa-based bureau Sponge D&D has its own profile featuring 21 works recognized by the platform: nine 'Sites of the Day', six 'Stars', and six nominations. The …
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68design, one of China's largest platforms for designers, has published the website of Ukrainian studio Sponge in its examples section. This marks the fourth Asian publication of …
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On February 9, the Sakharov Center hosted the third lecture by biblical scholar Andrey Desnitsky in his series on the biblical roots of the modern concept of human rights. The top…
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On 25 February 2017 the Behance curators featured Topseafarers, a job-search platform for seafarers made by the Odesa studio Sponge, in the User Interface gallery. For Odesa, wher…
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On 4 February 2017, the BestCSS gallery named the online platform of Odesa's M1 Club Hotel, created by Sponge D&D, its Site of the Day. That same day, the site also received a sep…
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On 4 February 2017, the website of Odessa's M1 Club Hotel became Site of the Day on CSS Winner with a final score of 7.6. That same day, the BestCSS platform gave the project a se…
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On 13 June 2016, Awwwards awarded an Honorable Mention to Trendon Store, a multi-brand store for clothing, footwear and accessories. That same year the work took Site of the Day a…
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On January 17, 2017, the CSS Winner gallery named BizzGrid its Site of the Day with a score of 7.6. A day earlier the same site earned an Honorable Mention at Awwwards, and that d…
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On January 16, 2017, Awwwards awarded the BizzGrid site an Honorable Mention, and the next day CSS Winner named it Site of the Day with a score of 7.6. For Sponge, the studio of f…
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The website of Odesa-based bureau Sponge, launched in 2015, has been included in a selection by the Chinese resource UeHtml, which collects examples of interfaces and web design f…
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In December 2016, Oleksii Mas, IT & Digital Advisor to the President of Kyivstar, explained in a column for AIN.UA how innovation works at the company where he had spent his first…
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Sponge Digital & Design's own website case went live on Behance on 8 May 2015 and collected 2,056 appreciations, over 17,000 views and 184 comments. The bureau described it as an …
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On November 30, 2016, the Simbrella website received an Honorable Mention at Awwwards, one of the most renowned international awards in web design. The Sponge studio created a new…
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On 4 February 2016, a user blog on Korrespondent.net reported how the website of Kyiv street food delivery service Furgoneta, built by studio Sponge D&D, was included in the CSS L…
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In September 2016, New York-based Kwambio opened its first own production facility, a ceramic 3D printing factory, in Odesa. The next day, on September 21, the American portal wro…
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On 18 November 2016, on the Griboyedov Canal, a stone’s throw from Nevsky Prospect, one-man pickets were held demanding the repeal of Article 148 of the Criminal Code on offending…
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In late January and early February 2016, the website of the food delivery service Furgoneta, built by the studio Sponge D&D, was recognized as a model of web design by three inter…
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On September 20, 2016, Kwambio launched its own production of ceramic items on 3D printers in Odesa. AIN called it Ukraine's first 3D printing factory for metal and ceramics, but …
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In the first quarter of 2016, Sponge D&D executive director Kyrylo Solyar regularly appeared in IGate's 'IT Personalities of Ukraine' roundups. Alongside him were Kyivstar CEO Pet…
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Looks.fm head Kyrylo Solyar published a column in the Goethe-Institut magazine's "Startups" section titled "How to Attract a Startup Audience Without Advertising Costs." About six…
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The website for law firm White Tetris, designed as a video game, was published by studio Sponge on Behance on September 6, 2016. The work has garnered over a thousand likes, 14,41…
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On 23 October 2016, the website of the law firm White Tetris received a curated mark from Behance in the User Interface gallery. The work gathered 1,066 appreciations, 14,414 view…
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On 4 September 2016, the website of the law company White Tetris, built by studio Sponge D&D, became Site of the Day on CSS Winner with a final score of 7.6. Shortly before, on 30…
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On 2 September 2016, the Professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences portal published a piece on the biblical scholar Andrei Desnitsky. The publication addressed whether the Bib…
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In the fact sheet for the interview that Dark Site of Marketing published on July 23, 2015, the Ukrainian studio Sponge described itself in a few lines. That formula remains uncha…
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On 11 August 2016, BestCSS named the website of Defence Group, an information security company, its 'Site of the Day'. That same day the work earned a 'Star' on CSS Winner, and a …
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On September 24, 2016, the website of cybersecurity firm Defence Group received a curator's tag in Behance's User Interface gallery. The work was done by studio Sponge, which that…
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On 23 August 2016, the White Tetris promo video received a Behance curator's stamp in the Animation Design gallery. It became the only Sponge project to be recognised by the platf…
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In Tagline's 2016 digital design studio ranking, Odesa-based Sponge D&D took 67th place. That is one position higher than a year earlier, and the studio shares the line with Mosco…
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On 8 October 2017 the Behance curators featured Simbrella's corporate site in the User Interface gallery — Simbrella being a company that has been building products for mobile ope…
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On July 10, 2016, the Trendon Store website became Site of the Day on CSS Winner with an overall score of 7.6. The jury rated usability highest: 7.7 points. The award came a month…
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On 13 February and 5 March 2015, blogs on Korrespondent.net told the story of Looks.fm, a photo contest service that, according to them, attracted millions of visitors during seve…
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On 20 October 2016, the Sponge D&D team held a paid seminar, “How to Start Your Own Web Studio: The Sponge Digital Example,” at Odesa’s IQSpace technology hub. The announcement ap…
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On 24 June 2016, the studio Sponge D&D announced its inclusion in the top five studios of the online-store category of the Runet Rating. The bureau's main argument was the Trendon…
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Over four competitive years, from 2013 to 2016, the studio Sponge D&D, by its own account, received eight awards from the Ukrainian Design: The Very Best Of competition, the last …
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On 30 May 2016, AIN.UA published a column by Andriy Pyvovarov, CEO and co-founder of the GoIT programming school, which had spent around six months searching for a marketing direc…
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In the 2016 Tagline ranking of digital design studios, Sponge moved up one position and shared 67th place with Saatchi & Saatchi. The agency's profile lists offices in Odesa, Kyiv…
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On May 26, 2016, Oleksii Mas, head of the Ukrainian Banner Network and host of the Internet Business track at iForum, published a column on about how to spot a promising startup. …
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On May 20, 2016, Meduza published an interview with Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset, who moved to the UK after selling the company. In conversation with special corresponden…
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In the 2016 Runet Rating, the Odesa studio Sponge D&D took 11th place in the creativity category. The bureau also spoke of a top-five spot among corporate sites, but in the rating…
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On September 6, 2018, the Odesa studio Sponge D&D posted a job listing on with a summary of recent years: “over the past two years our work has received more than 60 awards.” The …
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Between January and March 2016, Kyrylo Solyar, executive director of Sponge D&D and product manager of Looks.FM, appeared regularly in IGate's weekly roundups 'What IT Personaliti…
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On April 20, 2016, Kyivstar announced the VDNKh-TECh-Kyivstar competition-accelerator, aimed at finding, accelerating, and implementing new technologies. Applications were accepte…
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On 4 April 2016, an initiative group of Zhytomyr residents decided to establish in the city a parish of St Simeon the Stylite of the Apostolic Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Metropol…
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On April 12, 2016, on Radio Svoboda, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky explained why Russia, unlike Ukraine, does not change its government under pressure from the street. The…
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In the 2016 Runet Rating of design studio creativity, Sponge D&D took 11th place with 10.93 points. The studio jumped 17 positions and received 17 awards in professional competiti…
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In March 2016, Focus spoke with Oleksii Mas, who led the Internet Business track at iForum and gave a talk titled ‘Antifragility and New Trends in IT.’ He explained how Uber is di…
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The IGate IT company directory describes Sponge Digital & Design as a developer of web projects, design and online advertising campaigns. The studio was founded by Bohdan Hnatiuk …
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On 6 March 2016, CSS Winner named Carts Guru, a French service for promoting online stores, its Site of the Day with a score of 7.6. For this SaaS product, studio Sponge designed …
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At the close of the 2015/2016 season, the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition published its ranking of creativity and craftsmanship among digital agencies. Sponge D&D took eighth …
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At the 2016 Golden Site Awards, Sponge D&D took two first places: the Furgoneta food delivery service website was named best in the Restaurant, Café, Bar Website category, while t…
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On 7 February 2016, CSS Nectar named the Furgoneta delivery service website Site of the Day. The site was built by Ukrainian studio Sponge D&D. This is the project's third award i…
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In the summer of 2015, Dark Site of Marketing magazine published a lengthy interview with creative bureau Sponge about whether bold decisions work in digital and design. The compa…
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On 4 February 2016, the Furgoneta website became Site of the Day on CSS Winner with a final score of 7.6. It was the delivery service's second award that week, following an Honora…
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In early February 2016, Oleksii Mas published a column on about two types of people who do business. Entrepreneurs build it slowly, following established models, while startup fou…
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On January 19, 2016, "Istorychna Pravda" published the account of Archbishop Stefan (Nehrebevsky) of Kyiv and Bohuslav from the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance's book …
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The eighth award for Sponge at Ukrainian Design went to Trendon, a multi-brand online store for clothing, shoes and accessories. The 2016 competition awarded it Best of in the Web…
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On 23 December 2015, clergy from several churches of the apostolic tradition gathered in Kyiv. Under the chairmanship of Archbishop Stefan (Negrebetsky), thirteen voting participa…
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On December 28, 2015, AIN.UA summed up the year and published a list of ten Ukrainian startups that made a notable mark in 2015. Odesa-based Kwambio took seventh place, rising fro…
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On 21 December 2015, the promotional website for the construction company Kvadrat, developed by Sponge D&D, received Special Kudos at the CSS Design Awards with a score of 7.60 in…
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On 19 December 2015, the promo site for the construction company Kvadrat was named Site of the Day on CSS Winner. The jury awarded the project 7.6 points for design, functionality…
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On December 16, 2015, Radio Svoboda published a conversation between political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky and St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly deputy Boris Vishnevsky about th…
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On June 30, 2015, the motion video for Madonna by the Ukrainian studio Sponge appeared on Behance, and in September it was included in the service's selection of the best projects…
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Sponge Digital & Design received a medal for participation in Behance Portfolio Review, a program in which the platform's curators review authors' portfolios. The organizers intro…
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On 9 December, London hosted the presentation of the Uniwheel monowheel — a device for urban travel developed by Project42, the company of entrepreneur Timur Artemyev, co-founder …
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On 22 November 2015, Bishops Oleh (Vedmedenko) and Volodymyr (Mocharnyk) announced their withdrawal from the centralized Apostolic Orthodox Church and the creation of the Ukrainia…
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Timur Artyomov, former partner of Yevgeny Chichvarkin at Euroset, told Vedomosti about his London startup Project42. The company is developing a next-generation unicycle that the …
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On 22 October 2015, Moscow announced the winners of the Golden Site, the oldest internet project competition, held since 1997. In 2015, over 1,600 projects were submitted across 7…
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On 13 February 2015, a blog post by Stepan Sadovyi appeared on Korrespondent.net under the title 'Ukraine's future is closely tied to the development of the IT market and startups…
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At Ukrainian Design 2015, Sponge's work received Best of in the TV Program/Film Promo, interactive and digital projects category. The animated intro for Geeks Empire TV, a portal …
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On September 21, 2015, Sostav.ru published a review of the best summer works from the Behance Russia community. Winners were chosen by a jury separately in each of five categories…
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In August 2015, the Diocese Youth Camp was held at the Iversky Monastery in Valday, where biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky was a special guest of the school. In an…
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At Ukrainian Design 2015, studio Sponge received Best of in the TV Channel – Logo category for the logo of Odesa TV channel KTK. It was the bureau's second television mark to be r…
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On 10 August 2015, the journal Blagodatny Ogon (The Graceful Fire) published a piece on the biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky. It examined his 'popular' translation…
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On August 10, 2015, the promotional site for US users by creative agency Sponge & Digital Design,, received Site of the Day on BestCSS. A nomination on CSS Winner and a feature on…
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On August 8, 2015, the Sponge D&D website received Site of the Day on Awwwards, one of the world's leading web design evaluation platforms. The final score was 7.03 out of 10: des…
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The summer 2015 Behance Russia selection followed a simple principle: five best works in each category. In the Motion Design section, that top five included Madonna by Sponge Digi…
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On August 3, 2015, the one-page website gallery One Page Love published Sponge Digital & Design US, a promotional landing page for the American division of the Ukrainian studio Sp…
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On August 3, 2015, the promo site for American users by Ukrainian bureau Sponge & Digital Design,, was nominated for CSS Winner with a score of 7.6. That same day it was published…
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On June 10, 2015, the industry portal reported on the Ukrainian startup Kwambio, which joined the summer cohort of Techstars Boston. The accelerator and other investors put $650,0…
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The summer cohort of the Boston accelerator Techstars, announced in June 2015, included twelve teams, two of them Ukrainian: Kwambio and GV Machines. More than a thousand applicat…
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On July 27, 2015, the Sponge Digital & Design website received Winner status on CSSReel in the Portfolio & Companies category. The platform highlighted the animation, fullscreen p…
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From May 24 to August 14, 2015, the new website of Sponge Digital & Design collected a series of awards that few studios can boast of. The first was recognition from CSS Design Aw…
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On 21 July 2015, BestCSS selected Foundator, an information site about trading and investment, as its Site of the Day. The project was created by Sponge Digital & Design, and ten …
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On 20 July 2015 the Sponge Digital and Design website received Site of the Day on BestCSS, a platform that described it as the website and portfolio of the creative agency Sponge …
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At Ukrainian Design 2015, the website of the Sponge D&D bureau itself received a Best of mark in the Website Design category. Updated in early 2015, it presented the studio as an …
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On July 3, 2015, AIN.UA published a rapid-fire survey of top managers at Ukrainian IT companies about their choice of technical university and first job. The occasion was a DOU su…
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On July 1, 2015, Pravmir published a video recording of a lecture by biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky on the canon, inspiration, and authority of the Bible. A Doct…
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On 23 June 2015, the geek culture portal Geeks Empire, created by Sponge Digital & Design, was named Featured of the Day on CSS Light. On 29 June, the site was shortlisted by CSS …
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On 13 June 2015, the website of Odesa creative bureau Sponge D&D was named Site of the Day on the CSS Winner gallery. The jury gave it an overall score of 7.5. This accolade follo…
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On June 10, 2015, it was announced that twelve teams had joined the summer cohort of the Boston accelerator Techstars, and two of them were Ukrainian: Kwambio and GV Machines. Kwa…
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In 2015, Sponge D&D's Madonna received The Very Best of at Ukrainian Design 2015, the competition's highest tier, in the category 'Digital illustration & graphic design'. In the D…
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On June 5, 2015, AIN.UA's Friday digest 'Read on the Weekend' featured an excerpt from Oleksii Mas's column on building a brand online. Alongside it, the editors placed an intervi…
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On 3 June 2015, the website of Ukrainian bureau Sponge Digital and Design received Featured of the Day status on CSS Light. The platform immediately placed it in the categories 'C…
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On June 1, 2015, Forbes Kazakhstan published an interview with political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, in which he stated that after the annexation of Crimea, a world war is inevit…
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On 29 May 2015, the Sponge Digital and Design website was named Site of the Day on CSS Nectar, one of the major international web design galleries. Five days after the CSS Design …
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On 24 May 2015, the updated Sponge D&D website was named Website of the Day at the CSS Design Awards with a final jury score of 7.80. The platform described it as an interactive p…
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On 24 April 2015, the Kyiv Metropolis of the Apostolic Orthodox Church published the minutes of its Synod meeting held on 21–22 April. The main decision: Archbishop Stefan (Negreb…
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On October 14, 2015, the web design blog AndySowards published a roundup titled '15 Extremely Creative Websites' and placed, the American promo site of the Sponge studio, in sixth…
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On April 17, 2015, the Odessa-based startup Kwambio showed a working prototype of the UNIQUE One 3D printer. According to the team, the machine prints roughly five times faster th…
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In April 2015, shortly before the seventh iForum, Oleksii Mas, host of the Internet Business track, told Forbes about the mood in the Ukrainian IT industry. Entrepreneurs are incr…
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On April 13, 2015, Pravmir published a lecture by biblical scholar Andrei Desnitsky titled “The Bible: The Problem of Authorship.” A Doctor of Philology, leading research fellow a…
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On March 27, 2015, Computer Review published the most detailed interview with Oleksii Mas about his life. Journalist Evgeny Kulikov called his subject “the man in the red shirt,” …
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The Madonna animation, published on Behance on June 30, 2015, garnered 996 appreciations and was featured in the curated gallery “Motion Graphics.” It is the bureau’s third brandi…
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In early 2015, Forbes named Looks.fm the discovery of the year. The photo contest service, created by a team that included Sponge founder Bohdan Hnatiuk, according to the magazine…
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On January 29, 2015, AIN.UA published a crash test of the new website of the Promodo agency, created by the Ukrainian office of Artemy Lebedev's Studio. Four experts analyzed the …
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On 25 December 2014, the priest and human rights campaigner Gleb Yakunin died in Moscow in his 81st year. Lev Ponomaryov, head of the For Human Rights movement, reported the death…
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Former co-owner of Euroset Timur Artemyev has created the startup Spinar Ltd, which is developing a new-generation unicycle and promoting the idea of riding it around the city. Th…
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On December 10, 2014, Honored Journalist of Ukraine Alexander Kozyr presented the new website of the managing television company Kozyr Digital, kdigital.tv, at the Odesa-Media pre…
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On December 10, 2014, Honored Journalist of Ukraine Alexander Kozyr presented the website of the managing television company Kozyr Digital at the Odesa-Media press center. For mor…
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On 19 August 2014, Innabits published an interview with Kirill Solyar, executive director of the bureau Sponge. According to him, the studio's name is easily explained: a sponge f…
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On November 18, 2014, priest and human rights activist Gleb Yakunin was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Two weeks earlier he had re…
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On 30 May 2014, the organisers of the 15th Kyiv Advertising Festival published the results of the Digital & Mobile competition, where the Sponge studio submitted three works: its …
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On 30 May 2014, studio Sponge presented the illustration 'Last Supper. New Version' at the 15th Kyiv Advertising Festival (KIAF), its own reading of the Last Supper, in the Illust…
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On October 17, 2014, AIN.UA reported how the Odesa studio Sponge D&D spent a year developing its motion design direction. The bureau's mascot, the Alien, evolved from flat images …
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On 30 May 2014, studio Sponge submitted a brochure for the management company Maguta Fund to the 15th Kyiv Advertising Festival (KMRF) in the Postcard & Brochure category. The wor…
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In 2014, the design blog Daily Design Break published a selection titled “7 Creative Portfolio Websites,” featuring seven creative portfolio sites. The website of the Ukrainian st…
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On August 21, 2014, DesignWebKit published Helen Stark's piece "Symmetry and Asymmetry in Web Design," in which the Sponge studio's website is named as one example. The author not…
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On May 30, 2014, the Sponge studio presented the Geeks Empire logo in the Corporate Identity category of the 15th Kyiv International Advertising Festival (KIAD). The bureau create…
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On September 21, 2014, the German design magazine Noupe launched its "World of Design" series with the issue "No. 1: Ukraine," dedicated to Ukrainian design. Odesa studio Sponge i…
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In the summer of 2014, UserAndLINUX magazine spoke with Oleksii Mas, one of the organizers of iForum. The interview, published in the June–July 2014 issue, tells how the conferenc…
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On June 21, 2014, Pravmir published an article about a possible new translation of the Bible into Russian, already dubbed the “Patriarchal” one. In it, biblical scholar and transl…
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On May 30, 2014, at the 15th Kyiv International Advertising Festival held at NSC Olimpiyskiy, the Sponge studio presented seven works. In the Design contest, Corporate Identity ca…
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On February 9, 2014, the Splashnology blog published a roundup titled '30 Dark Web Designs for Inspiration,' including the website of studio Sponge, which was listed 23rd. The App…
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On May 24, 2014, biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrei Desnitsky was a guest on Yakov Krotov's program, dedicated to the relationship between science and the Bible. The con…
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In October 2014, work by studio Sponge received Best of at the Ukrainian Design 2014 competition in the 'TV channel logo' category. The bureau developed the mark for the Odesa-bas…
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On the eve of Easter 2014, the press service of the Kyiv Eparchy of the Apostolic Orthodox Church reported that two icons, of the Mother of God and of Christ, according to eyewitn…
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On April 18, 2014, AIN.UA published its Friday roundup "Read on the Weekend," the first item of which was the piece "The Ukrainian E-commerce Market Awaits Rapid Growth." Compiler…
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The fourth Book Arsenal opened in Kyiv on April 9, 2014, and will run for five days, with more than two hundred events on the program. On April 10, in the Arsenal of Ideas space, …
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On April 9, 2014, the corporate blog of published an interview with Oleksii Mas about iForum-2014, the sixth forum of the Ukrainian internet industry. is part of the Internet Inve…
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On April 9, 2014, two months after the Maidan, Korrespondent.net published an interview with Oleksii Mas about the iForum program, which the publication called "the largest intern…
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On March 31, 2014, Chytomo magazine published an interview with Volodymyr Usov, founder of the Odesa-based publisher Gutenbergz. He spoke about the iPad app The Adventures of Sher…
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From 13–17 October 2014, at the Ukrainian Design 2014 exhibition, the interactive magazine on art and aesthetics Estetico.me received a Best of mark in the Website Design category…
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On September 2, 2014, a video by Odesa-based bureau Sponge Alien received a curated mark in the Motion Graphics gallery on Behance. AIN.UA reported the event on October 17, callin…
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On March 20, 2014, political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky announced his intention to obtain Ukrainian citizenship. He wrote about this in his blog on Snob and later t…
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On 17 March 2014, the Sponge website appeared in the international web design gallery Nice One I Like in four categories at once: Agencies, HTML5, Studios, and Graphic Design. The…
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On 27 February 2014, biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrei Desnitsky told Pravmir how his relationship with the site took shape and why he considers its emergence a notable…
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On February 11, 2014, Radio Svoboda aired a conversation between political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky and host Mikhail Sokolov — about the split in the RPR-PARNAS p…
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On October 14, 2014, Detector Media—then still Telekritika—reported on the winners of Ukrainian Design in television design. The highest tier went to ICTV, STB and 1+1, while amon…
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On 17 October 2014, following the Ukrainian Design competition, the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition updated its interim creativity and craftsmanship ranking of agencies. For t…
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The Arbitrage Top website, created by studio Sponge, was entered in the Commercial Websites category of the Digital & Mobile competition at the 15th Kyiv Advertising Festival. The…
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On 19 December 2013, Ukrainskyi Tyzhden published a map of religious communities present on Kyiv's Maidan, where for a third week protests continued against the government's decis…
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On December 5, 2013, the Sponge Digital & Design site received an Honorable Mention on Awwwards. By then the platform had become the world's leading benchmark for web design, so f…
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On 13 November 2013, on Radio Svoboda, political analyst and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky discussed the campaign to find 'enemies of Russia', the new law on separatism and the si…
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On 31 October 2013, a mission of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Apostolic Orthodox Church (APC) officially opened in the Israeli city of Beersheba, biblical Beer-sheba. The event was …
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On 31 October 2013, the portal Pravmir published a text by biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky on the compatibility of the academic study of the Bible with Orthodox p…
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On 18 October 2013, the Council of Clergy and Laity of the Apostolic Orthodox Church convened in Kyiv. Its first decision was to unanimously glorify Priest Pavel Adelgeim as a con…
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On August 8, 2013, the biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky published a reflection on the portal Pravmir on whether sobornost (conciliarity) is possible in the church …
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In 2013, the magazine Kommersant Dengi published an article stating that former Yevroset co-owner Timur Artyomiev, who had moved to the UK, supports longevity research. According …
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On May 22, 2013, AIN.UA published a roundup of six Ukrainian internet projects that attracted money and failed to take off:, Friendin, Mail.ua, Prestige, Profeo and. The most inst…
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On May 16, 2013, the Independent Press Center on Prechistenka hosted the presentation of Sergei Buryanov's book "Problems of Implementing Freedom of Conscience and State Secularis…
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On May 10, 2013, AIN.UA published video of a talk by Oleksii Mas, one of the organizers of iForum-2013. The speaker’s main thesis: the interface in which a mouse seeks a point on …
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On April 11, 2013, on the portal Pravmir, biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky responded to the bill on protecting the feelings of believers passed by the State Duma i…
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On December 2, 2012, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" for iPad, the first project of the Odesa publisher Gutenbergz, was released on the App Store. The book appeared a year beh…
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On February 22, 2013, The Moscow Times reported that political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky refused to retract his criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church despite being summoned f…
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On 20 February 2013, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, in an interview with RFI, commented on the reaction of State Duma deputies from United Russia who, after his article in…
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On 19 February 2013, Mikhail Markelov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities, asked Russia's Investigative Committee to check an article by political analyst Stani…
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At the Ukrainian Design: The Very Best Of 2013 competition, organized by the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition, work by Sponge Digital & Design received a Best of distinction in…
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On 19 November 2012, the magazine Foma published a long interview with biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrey Desnitsky about why Orthodox Christians rarely read the Holy Sc…
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Mail.ru Group has acquired the Mail.ua email service from Ukrainian company Internet Invest Group, as reported by the Center for Journalistic Investigations on August 31, 2012. Ma…
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On August 30, 2012, InternetUA discovered that the domain Mail.ua belonged to Cyprus-based Nessly Holdings Limited, which holds a number of Mail.ru Group domains. According to who…
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In 2012, biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrei Desnitsky published a reflection on Pravmir about what features of contemporary church life he calls the new Sergianism and w…
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On May 21, 2012, on Kommersant FM, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky discussed with host Margarita Polyanskaya the composition of Dmitry Medvedev's new government, in which 16…
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On April 17, 2012, Oleksii Mas published a column on the blogs about a business that started with twenty euros and a LiveJournal blog. His heroine bought a lot on eBay, sold it of…
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On April 13, 2012, Lifehacker published Oleksii Mas's second essay on sleep. According to him, you can get enough rest in about two hours a day. This is not a polyphasic schedule …
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In April 2012, Lifehacker republished Oleksii Mas’s essay on time, noting that the text “was written a very long time ago”: it still mentions a PDA. The editors called Mas “one of…
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On 16 February 2012, Pravmir published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky, timed to the reissue by Nicaea Publishers of his book People and Phrases…
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On September 16, 2011, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky said on Kommersant FM why Yevgeny Roizman, head of the Yekaterinburg-based City Without Drugs foundation, found himsel…
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On September 9, 2011, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, in an interview with Kommersant FM, commented on the online conference of Right Cause leader Mikhail Prokhorov on. The…
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On August 12, 2011, AIN.UA published a video of Oleksii Mas's talk "10 Paradoxes of Advertising a Product on the Internet," delivered at the Product Marketing conference. The co-o…
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On July 6, 2011, AIN.UA republished a Forbes Ukraine article by Roman Sudolsky about Yaroslav Maksymovych, founder of the auction site. The hero of the piece was Maksymovych, but …
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On April 5, 2011, the magazine Foma published an interview with Andrey Desnitsky, Doctor of Philology and biblical scholar, on how to read the Bible without turning it into a set …
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On 17 March 2011, the magazine Foma published an article on relations between the Church and the state, built around a conversation with biblical scholar and translator Andrey Des…
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On 15 March 2011, biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky presented his book “People and Phrases” and met with readers. The material was published by Religa. The meeting …
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On December 1, 2010, The Guardian published an article about US State Department cables released by WikiLeaks, in which then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice claimed that Vladi…
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On December 1, 2010, AIN.UA announced a two-day training by Oleksii Mas, 'How to Build Your Own Internet Business from Scratch?' The sessions were scheduled for December 4 and 5 i…
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On 5 October 2010, AIN.UA published the answers of four players in the Ukrainian market to two questions: which model for monetising multimedia content would work in the country, …
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On July 22, 2010, the portal Pravmir published a piece by biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky on the biblical concept of blessedness. The author examines why the Bibl…
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On June 7, 2010, biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky published an article on the portal Pravmir explaining why the Old Testament seems petty to the reader. The author…
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On 10 October 2009, the portal Pravmir published an article by biblical scholar and Bible translator Andrei Desnitsky on why believers distance themselves from church life. The au…
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On June 1, 2009, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an interview with Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset. The 34-year-old entrepreneur said he had been working on extending active …
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On the eve of the first Ukrainian Internet Professionals Forum, scheduled for April 1, 2009, Oleksii Mas gave an interview from which AdReport singled out a separate item, 'Cherno…
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On the eve of April 1, 2009, AdReport journalist Mikhail Krasyuk spoke with Oleksii Mas at the headquarters of the first Ukrainian Internet Professionals Forum, held at the Ukrain…
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In 2007, entrepreneur Timur Artemyev, co-founder of Euroset, founded the Institute of Biology of Aging in St. Petersburg and invested $1 million in it over a year and a half. He s…
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The creative bureau Sponge, founded by Bohdan Hnatiuk, officially appeared on 22 November 2009 on the basis of a web studio he had run since the 2000s. That date is listed in the …
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On January 23, 2009, Kommersant reported that the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation was seeking a default arrest warrant for …
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On 23 December 2008, Detector Media published an interview with Oleksii Mas about the aftermath of the Infostore affair. According to him, no charges were brought against the comp…
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On December 4, 2008, officers of Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs began a search during which they seized the servers of the file-sharing service Infostore; the search conti…
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On 10 December 2008, the Internet Association of Ukraine held a press conference in Kyiv on the Infostore case, a file-sharing service whose equipment was removed by the Ministry …
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On 4 and 5 December 2008, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seized the servers of Infostore, one of Ukraine's largest file-sharing services. On 8 December, the newspape…
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On Thursday, 4 December 2008, police seized the servers of Infostore.org from the Volia-Cable data centre. The following day UkrRudProm published details of the raid, which, accor…
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On December 5, 2008, Maksym Ishchenko, founder of the developer community DOU, opened a forum thread about the seizure of Infostore's servers. He quoted a LiveJournal post by Olek…
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On December 4, 2008, officers from the capital district police department seized Infostore's servers at the Volia-Cable data center and conducted a search at the service's office …
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On October 13, 2008, the magazine Kommersant Sekret Firmy published an article on how Russian entrepreneurs are financing aging research. Among those featured is Yevroset co-found…
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On September 29, 2008, the magazine Kommersant Sekret Firmy reported that Euroset co-owners Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemyev had sold their stakes in the company to entrepre…
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On September 23, 2008, Kommersant reported that Euroset co-owners Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemyev had sold their 50% stakes in Russia's largest mobile phone retailer to ANN…
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On September 23, 2008, Timur Artyomov, who until mid-September remained one of the two owners of Euroset, announced that he would invest in the Institute of Biology of Aging, whic…
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On September 23, 2008, Sostav reported that Timur Artemyev, one of the former co-owners of Euroset, after completing the deal to sell the company to Alexander Mamut, plans to inve…
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On September 22, 2008, Kommersant reported that 100% of the shares of the mobile retailer Euroset had been acquired by the investment company ANN, controlled by entrepreneur Alexa…
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On September 4, 2008, Moscow's Basmanny Court authorized the arrest of Euroset's vice president for security, Boris Levin, who had been detained along with deputy head of security…
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On September 3, 2008, Euroset co-owner Timur Artyomov told Interfax that the company's owners deny involvement in the crimes featured in the criminal cases of the Investigative Co…
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On 22 August 2008 published a breakdown of Mail.ua, an email service that was then in closed testing. The publication named Oleksii Mas as the project's architect, with the Intern…
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In 2008, the number of Russian billionaires rose from 60 to 110, and Russia ranked second in the world after the United States. Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, d…
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On March 21, 2008, published an interview with Oleksii Mas, the “godfather” of the Ukrainian Banner Network. It began in a garage company with a single computer, entered on the bo…
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On 19 February 2008, The Guardian published a piece on the rise in the number of Russian dollar billionaires to 101, which put Russia in second place worldwide after the United St…
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On 1 January 2008, the magazine Foma published an interview by Vitaly Kaplan with biblical scholar and translator Andrey Desnitsky, a staff member of the Institute for Bible Trans…
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On 23 December 2007, The Guardian published an article about statements by Moscow political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, who claimed that Vladimir Putin, through complex financial…
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On 22 December 2007, oil trader Gunvor publicly denied for the first time claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the beneficial owner of the company. A letter from Gunvor…
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On 21 December 2007 The Guardian published a report on the power struggle in the Kremlin ahead of Vladimir Putin's departure from the presidency and on political analyst Stanislav…
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Euroset, Russia's largest mobile phone retailer, has begun converting from an LLC to an open joint-stock company (OJSC) ahead of its IPO planned for 2008. The reorganization was r…
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On August 28, 2006, Kommersant reported that Euroset, Russia's largest mobile phone retailer, was buying back 7.53% of its preferred shares from the financial corporation Uralsib.…
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On August 7, 2006, the Kyiv publication Kyivska Rus (Kyivan Rus) published an interview with biblical scholar and translator Andrei Desnitsky, academic consultant at the Institute…
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On May 15, 2006, it became known that the trading company Euroset intended to place three-year bonds worth 3 billion rubles at the end of May. In the securities prospectus, the is…
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On April 26, 2006, the portal published Oleksii Mas’s answers to readers’ questions, which had been collected in early March and the first half of April. The publication presented…
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The Euroset holding has received $50 million from the UralSib financial corporation in exchange for 7.5% of its preferred shares. The deal was reported by CNews on March 15, 2006.…
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On October 14, 2005, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to present the regional branch of the Institute of National Strategy and to deliver a lecture…
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On October 3, 2005, Forbes published a piece about the co-owners of Euroset — Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemyev. The text, in particular, mentions Artemyev's interest in fund…
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On 30 September 2005, on Radio Liberty's 'Guest Time', political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky, director of the Institute for National Strategy, spoke with host Vitaly Portnikov abo…
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On April 27, 2005, political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky announced his departure from the post of president of the Institute of National Strategy. He made the announcement at a pr…
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On December 16, 2004, Korrespondent.net reprinted an article from the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta about how the Ukrainian internet changed coverage of the Orange Revolution. O…
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In August 2003, Sekret Firmy published a major feature on how Timur Artyomov and Yevgeny Chichvarkin built Euroset—from a kiosk selling contracts to Moscow's largest cellular deal…
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In June 2003, The Moscow Times examined the scandal surrounding a report by the Council for National Strategy (CNS) on the threat of a "creeping oligarchic coup." The CNS was chai…
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On 7 March 2000, Oleksii Mas became director of the Ukrainian Portal, a project intended to bring order to the Ukrainian internet. That same year, Investgazeta spoke with him in i…
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On November 19, 2001, Ukrainska Pravda announced its own award: the site was named best in the Public Life and Politics category of the Sun Awards competition. The contest was org…
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On 15 October 2001, the magazine Internet i Zhizn, published by ITware, ran the jury questionnaires for the Sun Awards 2001. Oleksii Mas appeared in them as the internet guru Webm…
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