Reassessing Russia’s Technology Industry | Sergei Beloussov | CEO of virtualisation provider Parallels

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Reassessing Russia

10 August 2010 Daniel Shane

When Information Age reported on the state of Russia’s technology industry in July, the impression we got was of a dormant powerhouse blessed with a highly-skilled workforce but stymied by overbearing bureaucracy and widespread corruption.

Since the publication of that article, Sergei Beloussov, the Russian-born CEO of virtualisation provider Parallels, got in touch to give his own thoughts on what he thought was a pessimistic assessment of the country’s latest attempt to attract IT investment.

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