The company has opened a $15m technology centre and will invest $1m at Moscow State University.
US-based Microsoft is furthering its support of the Russian IT industry, with a third technology centre opening in the country – the second one in Moscow. Microsoft’s first centre was established in 2009 in Moscow, with a second one in Novosibirsk in 2011. Novosibirsk, informally known as the capital of Siberia, is the third most populous city in the country, and located in the country’s southeast. Microsoft provided half of $15m, with the firm’s partners raising the rest.
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