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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer signed a memorandum of understanding in Russia today, to build a research and development centre – à la Silicon Valley – in a location outside of Moscow. Ballmer and oil and mining mogul Viktor Vekselberg, who is the head of the Skolkovo Fund, inked the memorandum this morning. "We are …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

    Putin putting Ballmer straight...

    Probably with a nice Judo kick or a nasty Ninja poison.

    Now, where the hell is "Skolkovo, outside Mosocow"? Google Maps brings up a Skolkovo outside Moscow, all right, but it's way down south, near Kazakhstan... not at all like Zelenograd, then.

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      Re: Putin putting Ballmer straight...

      Judo kick, Ninja poison? Nah! Behead him he will, while riding a kazakh prized horse bare-chested (as in the anti-alcoholism campaign couple of years ago).

      And Skolkovo *is* close to Moscow. Check the Skolkovo Fund website: <http://www.i-gorod.com/en/>. A hyperlink in the article would have been a nice touch, nyet?

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  2. Lars Silver badge
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    Going to Moscow

    An obese and stupid cow goes to Moscow to be milked hoping he is better at it than them.

    Quite some amount of money will be passed under the table, but only from the west to the east.

    So what.

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