Microsoft and Skolkovo become partners…

Skolkovo innovation hub near Moscow...

Russian News lit up today…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and the chairman of Russia’s Skolkovo hi-tech center Viktor Vekselberg signed a memorandum of understanding in Moscow on Monday…

Ballmer said Microsoft plans to set up a research center in Skolkovo and implement research projects together with Russian universities and scientific institutions. The company will also support hi-tech start-ups…

Ballmer estimated investments in the projects at multiples of millions of dollars and said that Skolkovo has superb innovation capacities…

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