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residents are starting to feel the wealth impact of the disaster. well i'll be back with more news for in less than half an hour from now next we explore how russian innovations are boosting free time so people can get things done online instead of waiting in line that's next week on our team. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're in cars it's the capital of the russian republic of the stone and the city of contrasts where religion saying cultures from east and west collide but it's also the site where a thousand years of history are giving way to an upstart innovation based economy newcomers to cosign are sure to take a tour of the city's kremlin it's a unesco world heritage site with

a breathtaking array of minarets you could teach real domes within a few hundred feet of each other increasingly though it's visitors may just be stopping off to see the sights while pursuing more serious business that was certainly the mood last fall when a delegation of silicon valley entrepreneur met with touchstones top officials to discuss investment opportunities in the russian republic after a long trip from their familiar california confines their hosts were eager to point out that the necessary infrastructure was in place or should we deal if yes we're doing now is specializing we have read that will develop the petrochemical industry has on a teapot specialize in information technology research and development plus we have a facility in the town as comes with columnist will be reprocessed and we have specially designated zones for a major high taken vestment projects are looking like much of russia took a stance economy is heavily dependent on industrial production accounting for nearly half of the regional g.d.p.

within that segment traditional strong suits like mining metal works and oral refining remain the driving force behind the statistics there's a growing interest in modernization across all industries high tech has long played a role in cars on the economy but it part innovative industry has a shiny new home. to california van. capitalists also came here to get down to brass tacks on why touchdown was worthy of investor attention. russian international companies that have already enjoyed success in the republic made the case in painstaking detail the clear message that their stance economic tide is turning towards a new imposition on top technology. one of the most economical regions of the russian federation it's about sixty percent of. comes from the. chemical related industries and one of the main main objectives. and so.

they come to me we are looking for investments but first of all we need so-called smart investments so the investment in high tech and none as i can and and. as the name should imply some smart investment in the information technology sector has already found fertile ground within a high tea party since our visit last october it's come alive with new tenants in for monaco's one new resident that already directly impacts the lives of to understand citizens most notably in a project they realize for the republic's government interested in the buzz around the g administration but still largely bogged down in traditional bureaucracy a step towards the solution in for much for unified online state services. because to most set out a series of strict requirements for the new financial from initially was a number of specific functions and shit this includes a fool for money printing a variety of payment services documents gunning under

a video link up with the cool sensor. from the looks of it big in four months has a lot in common with the automated tellers that pump out our cash or the electronic she asks where thousands of russians pay their mobile phone or home internet bills and on the whole that's a good thing users are quicker to adapt to familiar looking hardware but the key element that said big. from out apart from its look alikes in previous generations are wired in its inner workings the government asked him for monica to incorporate the capacity to pay for sign up for apply for and receive confirmation of a wide range of services provided by an equally broad spectrum of state agencies each of these functions needs its own software and hardware design. the bridge. at this point we don't know of any competitors that produce this kind of equipment with the same current touristic some of them have princes with tiny trays for example holding only two hundred fifty sheets. others haven't included

a video link with a cool sensor using a single lens reflex camera as a scanner. pates inside solution. camera allows for document scanning without the own we'll be cover other features right at your fingertips you can read your bank cards bar codes and passports full size documents or cashiers receipts and take payment for everything from property tax to parking tickets myself. the first award for a new motor was developed what skills angles and ergonomic current serious six or four inch this way to a full scale called model has to be creative you would wish it to focus groups and group of the posts his opponents based on individual preferences said whether it was convenient or inconvenience and whether they liked still disliked it only after that did we switch i would submit to start making the real thing. that go ahead was given informatica went to local design fabricators to help with

much of the new hardware. this tiny speech protected plates and siding panels have to be perceived in cars and welded from sheets of the desired metals and local workshops have valuable experience in the arena of mass production metalworking. it's an interesting read sample of how a new high technology solutions can support you can. teemu growth of more traditional economic sectors. these in turn benefit from the call to compete for contracts to help products in a buyer's market expecting higher standards. as a significant number of components in colvin monitoring its own state including he never consumption rates the tools. and other parameters is. down the body of the informant terminals in proper shape and tons of stunning red white and green in for money gets down to the nuts and bolts of packing the just full of electronic communications equipment they need to do their many jobs each of

the inputs needs to be suited to the central computer which then needs a connection to the government payment network some of the solutions seem almost too good to be true with hard drives printers and even a digital camera hardly different from the ones we have around our office but here simplicity is savings we're talking about the ease of supplying servicing and replacing components once they're in government buildings all over the republic. there is a wide range of different services provided by these informal machines the principle task was to provide appropriate access to the service to the various state structures present old is cash based operations are carried out of the right tool then only cash handling and security organizations should have access to it in this case they have banks or some other specialized organization. over on this side the only people who change receipt roles in the receipt printer or service these machines will be given access to them this could be tax collection agencies or some

other organizations that have access to the register below this isn't a full print and consequently only organizations that service the channel should have access to it this is also for opening servicing or taking out the camera in the scanner here organizations that service the printer in this case change the contracts load the paper and generally ensure that the printer. operates normally we showed up at the state property registry to see the informatics in action we found them being used by a broad segment of citizens they may have come here for something specific but services related to other administrative divisions were also excessive all queues are getting shorter because of the popularity of these machines more and more people are starting to submit an application is through the info so they don't have to come here two of three times but instead submit their applications where it's convenient for them they come to us only took fifteen to finalize documents according to official figures for the first three months of two thousand and eleven to implement visits of more than tripled their handling nearly twice the volume of

the increase and more than four times the inflow of applications as people realize they could reserve other appointments adik she asks that figure skyrocketed as did the number of payments made to inform us. that i t. park another company has attracted a crowd of potential foreign clients and investors to present their unique integration of the russian glow in the us sat nav system with the software in communications complex they coordinates in commands to their stance emergency services prices. russian companies need to be creating in earning money on a regional intellectual property and with us in mind information technologies a sector in selection of probity can turn into products pretty quickly becoming a good source of income that's part of the objective us one one two pilot project based hearing because on with this satellite network in place they're developing and marketing a system to integrate and simplify emergency dispatcher services one one two is the

unified emergency phone number for the e.u. and now russia much like nine one one in north america or ninety nine in the u.k. these operators take those calls and direct the urgent information to emergency workers in the field whose locations they can track on maps generated by the glow in the sat nav system. versions the situations can strike almost anywhere and. any time when the response has to be ready time is precious and this is to mccain's to cut out steps by getting him from the street to the service needed increasing our first response capacity. to. this central design fire station agreed to show us how the new bonus one one two system is impacting your work and the effectiveness of the lifesaving services they provide. the control room is all computerized with the integration of locally develops sat nav in software producing interactive digital maps of emergency sites and units in

the field we didn't light any buildings on fire to test them but the calls came in nevertheless. previously if we received a message that the fire rescue line zero one about a road accident where people needed some kind of help we had to dial the police at zero two or the state road traffic and special order we had to dial a third number to call an ambulance so we had to carry out all three of these operations in turn now with a new unified one one to systematize the difference is that dispatchers fill out a single online form they write the address and what kind of help is needed and simultaneously dispatch this information to all services. russia's federal emergency situations ministry plans the future of such systems to look something like this traumatization transmitters in private cars will signal the call center that an accident has occurred if calls to the glorious emergency phone in the automobile aren't successful rescue teams are on the ready guy even the cd

emergency by the same set of network rescuers cut down on time it's crucial to saving endangered lives it may seem a bit far fetched today but not for long transmitters like those being tested by cars on emergency vehicles may be required on russian cars by twenty thirty one she was very interesting and important that separate regions have already low. projects both on their own initiative and in cooperation with the irregular system we're creating. the already started and the goals of basically the same and i feel good future will combine our developments of experience to create the final product the republic of stan has accumulated considerable experience in this field. glow not one one two one in four months both came from because on site the part but there's two more innovation centers in that city neighborhood and seven across the capital with focuses in different camps sectors that are stone spread out beyond design conclude several high tech investment zones in cities like mission accomplished now additionally show me and women of course we all hate it in the

sense of the most densely populated area fresh and every second citizen of the russian federation lives within one thousand colones of distance and today it's very important for the multinational companies. located in the center of the city's circle because their main to months in russia stay concentrated in minnesota human resources is one of the competitive and fun chess in terms of quality quantity and way schnabel according to the surveys the level in the public on this about forty five percent of even less even lower which gives investors the flexibility to taxing educating motivating their people sixteen hundred new workplaces were created with the two thousand and ten opening of the massive two narco refinery in the us makowski its first teacher any well put up seven million tonnes of crude continues to advance to pakistan's keep petroleum position

petrochemical products like polyethylene or rubber pig and tougher standards which cost forty percent of russia's productivity and both as well as roughly a third of the whole country's tires many of those tires go on to turn to stun me trucks to total thirty percent of russia's output these are either durable commands were courses from the british need show me where. trucks from the a lot will get special economic zone because on helicopter factory pumps choppers used around the world and that's just one part of the important aviation sector that's long been top flight in time to stop increasingly modern aviation engineers are building specifically purpose machines propelled by programs or remote guidance systems essentially planes that need no pilot to control their flight path. drawing on over a half century of aviation you know how close on socal experimental design hero is making strides in this expanding rina external tables from its first piloted engine with spiders in the sixty's to unpiloted aircraft today. i watched the

idea of using drones as flying targets is really quite obvious so you see the has embraced so-called design bureau has accumulated a unique experience in this arena so since it was founded this enterprise is designed several generations of unpiloted flying target systems mission each of these targets was used by russian them services and it's time to read. the most recent generation of so-called targets is called done and it's designed to take off from a light mobile launcher for use almost anywhere in military testing in training they can flying groups of up to four stay aloft for over an hour in range from fifty meters to roughly nine thousand meters in elevation weapon systems are complicated and costly so they're fine tuning in functionality are worth the cost of flying targets but designing a full arsenal of drone targets for different simulations is overkill and the dynamic is mention performance the objective of many different in-flight exercises

on the trains every great simone's not only for the air force but also in the anti aircraft to find schools is they need tritons which have the capacity to serve as multi weapons or defectively emits a single kinds of mandate. only three hundred fifty. grahams they done em is pretty light for any aircraft and that's an advantage in a field that values flexibility and ease of transport just means workers have had to develop lightweight electronics and control systems to maximize the flying targets maneuverability with a minimum of added mass to imitate kerry's targets the dunham's engines can generate speeds from three hundred to seven hundred fifty kilometers per hour blasting it out of the sky is the only possible goal so it's equipped with recovery system which allows a single target drone to be used up to ten times it can be guided be a programmed auto pilot or from the remote control center all of these features undergo constant updates. a cheaper and more reliable line of control systems has

been developed. and operating successfully in addition and you also a pilot system has been introduced which has significantly improved the quality of flight. so who's flying targets are so tricky that only about one in every ten gets shot down . three pages an exhibition stand for development and testing of navigation and control systems. and brains of the drones we designed the ground based test complex consists of computers that control the flight dynamics of a model as well as performance monitoring equipment. and control system is exactly like the real thing now. this equipment. of control actuators shows how the pilot system reacts to disturbances which we can create with the help of

a rotary axis changing the pitch and all of the sensor units and the banking angle this is how we imitated a cross angle. we can judge whether the flight control system is ready for operation but changes in the test parameters of the sensor units the substitution of miniature components and control systems. the systems weight increase the speed of the aircraft increase the maximum fuel payload and the flight range accordingly this a craft can withstand acceleration force of up to nine njt can nose dive and pitch up and sustain lateral acceleration force is essentially it's a flying robot she's going to. with all the smart stuff packed into the fuselage it's time to fold everything down spread the wings and see if the drone is up to snuff before it can put top weapon systems to the test it done him has to undergo some pretty stringent testing of its own the list of modern russian designed military hardware done them is helped develop is nothing to mess with any includes

fighter jets like to make twenty nine which is being delivered in a massive contract with india's navy to suit thirty variation developed for the chinese air force and the s four hundred triumph of any aircraft system stew more unpiloted excitement lies ahead for sokol. future unpiloted aircraft we plan to reach an entirely new technological level which will on the one hand and i was to significantly raise the aircraft and. be providing a new generation of equipment that allows new hardware and programming solution. the so-called design bureau is planning to carve out a nice in the already crowded russian drone market will build an unpopulated multi-purpose aircraft weighing in at about one hundred kilograms so far it's all blueprints behind closed doors with given their past excess the picture looks good

going forward in the soviet union kodak moments were brought to you by house about who made their film professor chemicals right here at the scott factory today the same site is home to a brand new innovation chemical quater called him god the so-called techno pulis has resurrected over one hundred thirty had pairs of mostly abandoned brown. in the place of one giant organization decide is establishing a base of innovative small and medium sized petrochemical projects they could help jumpstart economic development across the republic was the new. here are several major petrochemical plants in tartar standard just as you support a considerable part of their products most is the weakest moment of the that's why we have seven objective to process at least thirty percent of color is in the republican is due to the jobs taxes as the added value remain in the republican economy just we could exist here at the hume ground high tech cluster we're creating the necessary conditions for a quick start up for companies that aim to do the kind of work the plan to process

polymers with the most of the necessary infrastructure has been created by a company can count on preferential terms for moving into premises in a module building like this one which fully meets all safety standards and is fitted out with all modern technological infrastructure of the war if a company is already somewhat larger it can obtain a land allotment which requires utilities where is will be able to record auction facilities or install equipment suitable for its technology quickly and without any hold ups the project was launched in two thousand and seven today we have a hundred eleven residents and more than four thousand new jobs we sent in a vicious goal to increase the number of companies operating in him to at least two hundred with these companies we hope to create a total of ten thousand new jobs wolf this was the fulfillment disease which of which it is as of today deflation factory within the huge complex is the production facility of the russian flexible packaging company down the flex if you've been in russia long enough to shop for your favorite condiments there's

a good chance they're back to the plastic film produced hearing because on to put all those products on supermarket shelves these lines pump out kilometers of labeled plastic wrapping each day the item of the hour here is men ace massive rules of translucent polyethylene film are loaded through these machines with coats of clued safety layered on the. resolutely as the plastic passes the rollers the machinery is all about precision so that the red writing is exactly the right grid the egg yolks are exactly the right yellow and the vegetables their natural grain with the reels finally finish samples are tested electronically to assure the true colors where does the plastic film come from in the first place. before through the plastics extrusion process everything starts with granules these granules get trucked into special you matic lines through the hole and into extruded and extrude is the granules get mail to down then this melted material gets pulled into the special rotating done and then the film bubble goes up to twenty meters cooling

slowly. after that it's pressed by special collapsing frightened and turned into what's called a lay flat then this lay flat film comes back down there it gets cut to the sides amounted to ropes on the. grainless that start the whole process are made of kali ethylene the world's most common plastics both clear and white granules produce the corresponding color of packaging materials in a clear great deals that supply gonna fix for me right down the road a cousin or synthesis russia's biggest polyethylene producer the equipment design is about cooling a plastic film with the desired thickness not just because a twenty meter plastic tornado looks amazing plastics extrusion can be performed by many different methods this is called blown film extrusion the volume and pressure of the air balloon and the massive tube stretches it determining the dimensions of the film that will descend on to the rolls it's the most efficient way of producing this kind of film but down the flex has new packaging materials in its sights.

restored mission and them in prison so recently we produced mostly known barrier packaging based on the polyethylene and polyethylene terrified little like these for a stand of mayonnaise packaging so we produce beria packaging based on a leaving them for oil but i will put foil is rather difficult surprise. yes and convert this will just by bringing it to you can see i've been called it a lot because it's processing it by machinery is even harder even worse this material is practically known recyclable will supply you as a result a project was started to produce thin film membrane instead of aluminum foil and will in the project was established together with. them through the project we produce the first membrane that has the same variant attributes as aluminum foil by the of but with a number of additional advantages it's transparent which allows you to see the product inside because and what's more this film is recyclable. so the new membrane will replace traditional foil in highbury or packaging all the same properties in

a tiny fraction of the thickness composite films are also on the menu for the donna flex ross nano partnership for this product minister i should composite materials will go into the mixture from extrusion creating stronger packaging at a lower cost as rosen in a representative's made clear during a california delegations visit last october this project is just the tip of the sun's going to be the investment nice we should play if we believe the agreement we've signed with works very well very reliably which in the doing we have projects plans of the so-called clean tech sphere including alternative energy solar batteries fuel cells and a number of projects related to biotechnologies and offical components for telecommunications. behind the facade of traditional beauty design in the surrounding region he's focusing on twenty first century functionality if you go to visit you just might catch a glimpse we've only just begun to scratch the surface of the sounds high tech

potential but we're at a time for this month in moscow stalling fortunately we can go home to the russian capital knowing it's not the only capital of russian innovation join us for more on the next technology update until then enjoy the ride.

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