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Hot Russia Spy Luring Space Investors, Companies to Russia’s Silicon Valley Clone
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/02/20/hot-russia-spy-luring-space-investors-companies-to-russias-silicon-valley-clone/Hot Russia Spy Luring Space Investors, Companies to Russia’s Silicon Valley Clone
Posted by Doug Messier on February 20
Russian spy turned aerospace recruiter Anna Chapman.
The Observer has an update on Skolkovo, the Russian government’s attempt to replicate America’s Silicon Valley outside of Moscow:
“We have plans to further explore the moon and the planets,” said a pamphlet promoting Skolkovo’s space centre, one of five planned “clusters”, alongside IT, biomedical science, energy efficiency and nuclear technology.
Investors are being promised corporate and personal tax breaks – and the opportunity of meeting Anna Chapman, the former spy and underwear model, who has been given the task of attracting young talent to Skolkovo.
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