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Volodymyr Panchenko is a video game and technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience, Founder and CEO of DMarket . Vlad is now building new gaming and esports metaverses, and is focused on the future of the in-game items industry — one that covers the needs of 2.9 billion gamers worldwide. His cosmopolitan life views have formed his business approach of a world without borders through...

Sofya Danko Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, teacher of logic and philosophy. Interests - the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. FIND SOFYA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook ========================== SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter:  https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube:&nbsp...

Andrey Movchan is a well-known economist, financier, investment manager and managing partner of Movchan’s Group , an investment management group of companies focused on managing of conservative liquid investments. Andrey is experienced researcher and author of multiple articles researches and papers in the field of investments, macroeconomy, strategy, geo-economics.  Former Executive Director...

Alibek Junisbayev is a one of the few who can claim to have built multiple banks in multiple countries. He has spent 25 years building banks across Middle East, Africa, Europe and the US. He is now partnering with a century-old financial institution and is on a mission to build 1000 more banks in the next few years. Alibek is a CEO of AWSM bank , the socially responsible U.S. challenger bank, is a...

Igor Kochetkov is a Russian public figure, human rights activist, publicist, LGBT activist, one of the founders of the Russian LGBT Network. In 2013, he was included in the list of "100 global thinkers of our time" by Foreign Policy magazine. In 2014, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2018, Igor Kochetkov, together with Novaya Gazeta's special correspondent Elena Milashina, received a...

Alexander Ratakhin was born in Vladivostok in 1978. He graduated from the Academic Lyceum in the city of Tomsk. He was especially fond of mathematics (he was the winner of city and regional Olympiads, participated in the international one). In 2000 he graduated from Tomsk State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics. He taught mathematics and business disciplines at TSU and in...

Oleg Zhuravlev is a sociologist, member of the Public Sociology Laboratory at the Center for Independent Sociological Research (Russia). Oleg was a postgraduate student at the European University Institute (Italy), where he successfully defended his dissertation and received a PhD degree. Member of the Russian Socialist Movement. FIND OLEG ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook ================================...

Olga Scheps was born in Moscow in 1986, the daughter of two pianists, and discovered the instrument for herself at the age of four. She began studying the piano more intensively after her family moved to Germany in 1992. At an early age she had already developed her own unique style of keyboard playing, which combines intense emotiveness and powerful expressivity with extraordinary pianistic techn...

Darya Sysoeva - Ex-co founder and Chief Production Officer of IT startups "Fooder" (USA, Europe, Russia), "TeamJet" (Russia, CIS). She created more than 30 IT products for "Chaykhon No. 1", "Domino's Pizza" , as well as "Yandex", "Boston Consulting Group" and many others. Darya won 5 gold awards for the best mobile apps "Golden App 2016, 2017" in the categories «Best App 2016» (Fonbet), «Medicine&...

Eugene Lisovskiy is a serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder and COO of LevelUpBasket.com, global "Strava" for basketball players and coaches. Ex-CEO of Maps.me – #1 travel maps with 150M installs globally, ex-CMO of LitRes.com - #1 e-book store in Russia & CIS (25M users), co-founder of MoikaMoika.ru – app for carwash booking (exited in 2018), co-founder of OpenPlaceReviews.org - global decentralize...

Vladislav Lectorsky - Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, Principal researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of Philosophy, State Academic University of Humanitarian Sciences (GAUGN), Head of the Department of Epistemology and Logic of the Philosophical Faculty of GAUGN. Vladislav was born in 1932 in Moscow. He graduated from school in...

Andriy Myachykov is a cognitive scientist and psycholinguist who studies mechanisms of linguistic communication and semantics. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience , Higher School of Economics, Moscow. FIND ANDRIY ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook  |   L...

Gala Maksudova , lecturer, PhD candidate in Philosophy, philosophy research assistant in the International laboratory for logic, linguistics and formal philosophy, tutor in Yandex. Praktikum. In her research Gala is trying to establish links between logic, psychology and social processes. FIND GALA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook  |   VKontakte ================================ SUPPORT & CON...

Victor Gorbatov is a logician, expert in argumentation and critical thinking. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University in 1998, since then he has been teaching logic and philosophy since 2013 - critical thinking. The longest place of work is the Higher School of Economics (12 years). In 2020, he was fired from there - for political reasons, as he believes. Immediately...

Irina Sokolova, Psychologist and director of the animation studio Yes . Developer of the multi-therapy methodology to help children in difficult life situations. Co-author of projects "Future Today", HUMRA, Green Camp, etc. Leading gestalt groups for adults. FIND IRINA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook  |   Instagram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon:&nbsp...

Daniel Tonkopiy is a serial entrepreneur with 10 years of experience, CEO and co-founder of Delfast Inc , the electric bikes company with the Guinness World Record for the longest distance traveled on a single charge. Daniel launched Delfast in 2014 as the 1-hour delivery service using long-range, eco-friendly vehicles. Currently, the mission of the company is to produce an energy-efficient e-tran...

Petr Bubnov is a professional financier and venture investor. More than 20 years in the securities market - went from an analyst in a brokerage company to a business owner. Co-founder and co-owner of the financial company NRFC , partner of the FL1 private equity fund in the USA. For the last three years, together with a partner, he has been developing his own business, during which time he managed...

Oleg Korablev is the Head of Department at Space Research Institute , Moscow. He develops science instruments for interplanetary spacecraft. His recent device at ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has set a very low upper limit on methane, being continuously detected at the surface by the Curiosity rover but discovered a new chemically active species, the hydrogen chloride. FIND OLEG ON SOCIAL MEDIA Linked...

Andrey Makeev is an entrepreneur, founder of the Flowwow marketplace. This is a service that brings together customers, shops and couriers. The marketplace hosts more than 6,000 stores. In 2021, the annual turnover amounted to 2.5 billion rubles. Flowwow is the market leader in the gift and flower theme in Russia. Andrey directly invented and created with the team: client applications, client web...

Denys Grabchak is a Co-Founder and CEO of Performetry = Google Analytics for people data. Backed by Techstars, Altair Capital and senior technology leaders across the US (Google, Linkedin, Salesforce, Cisco, Dropbox, Airbnb, Juniper Networks, etc.), Performetry is on a mission to change how work works. Denys has over 15  years of professional experience which includes running the 2nd largest...

Svetlana Anokhina is a prominent women human rights defender, journalist, and outspoken advocate for women's rights from Dagestan. She is editor-in-chief of the Internet portal Daptar.ru, founder and leader of the Marem activist group , which helps women in difficult situations. Activist of the Our City group, which protects urban spaces and green areas of Makhachkala. FIND SVETLANA ON SOCIAL MEDI...

Anna Mesheryakova is an impact entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Third Opinion Platform . Anna has been in business since the age of 17, she has gone from a sales manager to a co-founder and head of successful startups in two new fast-growing niches: FoodTech and HealthTech. Anna graduated from school as an external student at the age of 15. She considered getting higher education in two univers...

Mikhail Katsnelson graduated from the Ural State University in 1977 and then worked (until 2002) at the Institute of Physics of Metals (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg), last position - Head. laboratory of the quantum theory of metals. At the same time, he worked at the Ural University in the departments of theoretical physics, mathematical physics and in the SUNC ("Lyceum"). Doctor of Physical and...

Vasily Voropaev is a serial entrepreneur, business angel, CEO and founder of Smartbrain.io and Rubrain.com , pioneer of the Eastern Europe freelance and remote-work market with 20+ years of IT experience. Successful multimillion (USD) exit from the company he founded – the biggest freelance and remote work marketplace in Europe. FIND VASILY ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn  |   Facebook  |...

Zamir Shukhov is the Founder and General Partner of Vibranium. VC fund, CEO and partner of the Global Venture Alliance , serial entrepreneur (created 10 companies and organizations), business angel/investor, an expert in venture capital, management, acceleration, corporate innovation and marketing over 19 years of professional career. Former Managing Partner of GVA Capital Fund 1, partner of GVA L...