On the exploitation side Samsung recently agreed to open a lab at the new Skolkovo tech hub outside Moscow.

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Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.

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The government is also funding high tech start ups at its Skolkovo initiative in the outskirts of Moscow.

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