Russia finally gets serious about venture capital

(Editor’s note: Yuri Ammosov is a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of the venture capital and high tech development programs. In this piece, he introduces the new Russian sponsored venture capital program. It opened in March, but has just made its first commitments. Also, see BusinessWeek’s pieces about Russian and Eastern European VC for more context.)

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