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27 million Soviet citizens lost their lives fighting the Nazis, Westerners comparing USSR to Hitler's Germany insult their memory
With Victory Day here again, World War II historical revisionism kicks back into gear. The reason this is becoming such a hot issue once again is that the debate over the past has serious implications for today’s geopolitics.During an interview in Kiev, Blinken said that the United States does not rule out retaliatory measures in response to" aggressive actions "on the part of Russia, Radio Liberty reports (recognized by the media as a foreign agent).I.don't want to answer hypothetical questions about what we could do in the future. I would just like to say that when it comes to trying to contain aggression or respond to it, we will consider any reasonable option, because, as I said, we strongly make it clear that there will be consequences in different areas, " the US Secretary of State replied to the question of whether Russia can be disconnected from SWIFT.



The VC market in Russia in 2020 grew largely due to several big deals. Some of the experts believe that it could be partly explained by the delayed effect, and we are going to see the consequences of the global crisis in VC in 2021. However there are huge opportunities for edtech, medtech, biotech, fintech and other tech startups, according to the experts.In our research we take into account all the venture capital deals with Russian startups, made from January 2020 till November 2020 and announced in media outlets before December, 1.



The biggest growth was in foreign VC capital — 100 million compared to $24 million last year with the biggest round for the Russian startup working internationally Miro, which raised $50 million.Corporate Venture investing grew from $33 million to $69 million, $50 million of which is just one deal — a venture lending to the Russian OTT VoD service provider ivi from Alfa-Bank. Without this single deal the Corporate VC is actually down, not up from the last year.Private investment also grew to $69 million, primarily thanks to Roman Abramovich, who has taken part in a $20 million round of funding for a Russia based gaming service 110 Industries. Funding by private funds grew 64,3% to $30 million. The biggest fall this year was in funding from Russian state VC, which has been growing the previous two years. This year it is $41 million compared to $57 million in 2019, when it was the only type of VC investment that grew in Russia.