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		<title>iAppContest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iAppContest is the first competition in Eastern Europe between iPhone developers. The contest will be running in Ukraine for 2 months from April 16 to June 16. Results will be announced on a stage during the Final Event, on Saturday June 19th, Kiev, Ukraine. We are expecting hundreds apps to be submitted to the Contest, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/04/12/iappcontest/</link>
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		<title>Facebook to open office in Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s famous social-networking site Facebook is in talks with Russian mobile operators and is opening up an office in Russia. Facebook counts more than 400 million active users. Its main competitor, MySpace, already opened a Russian office but closed it in summer 2009 along with offices in a number of other countries. One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/04/09/facebook-to-open-office-in-russia/</link>
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		<title>DST wants to invest in Chatroulette.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Sky Technologies wants to buy a share of the popular Russian startup Chatroulette.com. It&#8217;s what the German magazine Spegel reports. According to the magazine. DST claims about 10% of Chatroulette, and Ternovskiy evaluates the entire company at 10-30 million euros. Chatroulette is a service that allows users to communicate online using video and text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/04/02/dst-wants-to-invest-in-chatroulette-com/</link>
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		<title>Game Network secures $ 3 million from UMJ Russia Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GameLand Network, a Russian companies which holds the rights for the Russian television channel Gameland TV, has sold a minority stake to the Japanese venture fund UMJ Russia Fund, as Pasha Romanovsky from Game Network told to Vedomosti. The amount of the investment was not disclosed but consultants near the transaction said it is around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/31/game-network-secures-3-million-from-umj-russia-fund/</link>
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		<title>Event report: second startup weekend in Moscow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 9 to 11 April in Moscow will be held the second Startup Weekend. Hundred of entrepreneurs are going to gather together for 2 days and try to start new business projects. At event will take part around 100-150 experts and entrepreneurs like marketing managers, IT-specialists, vendors, designers, project managers and other bright personalites. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/30/event-report-second-startup-weekend-in-moscow/</link>
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		<title>Sales record in Russia for the game Happy Farmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online game &#8220;Happy Farmer&#8221; as collected a record of $ 20 million during just one year from its launch in Russia. This also means that the social networks are learning to how make money. Around half of the $ 20 million were brought by the social site VKontakte. &#8220;Happy Farmer&#8221; was launched in April last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/24/sales-record-in-russia-for-the-game-happy-farmer/</link>
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		<title>Build the Russian Silicon Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently announced that Russia will build a high-tech hub near Moscow as a step to modernise the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas. The project aims to give state backing to major companies to help them develop selected innovative products. In the centre will be developed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/23/build-the-russian-silicon-valley/</link>
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		<title>Online payments growth in Ukraine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Ukraine over the last year has increased the number of Internet users making online payments. The head of the Internet auction Kopeikoff.com, Artyom Yaremchuk, said that during the first months of the service in Ukraine, more than half of the payments were done via SMS. 20% were done though bank and only 25% were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/22/online-payments-growth-in-ukraine/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Olga Sternik about Brandspotter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Olga Sternik is the owner of Sterno.ru a Moscow based digital agency supporting marketing campaigns in the Internet. They just launched a new and interesting project &#8211; Brandspotter. So we went to ask more about this. Olga, can you shortly describe your last project, Brandspotter? Brandspotter is a B2B online service for monitoring and management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/18/interview-with-olga-sternik-about-brandspotter/</link>
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		<title>DST and 1C invest $ 5 million in Nival Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergey Orlovsky and his company]]></description>
		<link>http://eestartup.com/2010/03/17/dst-and-1c-invest-5-million-in-nival-network/</link>
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