Skolkovo, Russia's $4B tech incubator near Moscow, languishes as funding is cut and startups leave
The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia's Silicon Valley — In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it. Tweets: @kasparov63 , @eurasiagroup and @pmarca Tweets: Garry Kasparov / @kasparov63 : I always said Skolkovo was little more than a Kremlin money laundering operation. Totalitarian Silicon Valley, pfft! http://foreignpolicy.com/... @eurasiagroup : Why Medvedev struggled to build a Russian Silicon Valley, analyst @WitlinZ tells @JamesAppell & @ForeignPolicy http://foreignpolicy.com/... Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : This is so tragic: http://foreignpolicy.com/...