Microsoft Corp. and Space Research Institute to co-launch a scientific research center in Russia

The agreement, penned by RSI Deputy Director Ravil Nazirov and Microsoft Russia President Nikolai Pryanishnikov, will last for three years and represents the next stage in cooperation between Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge and RSI. According to the signatories, the noncommercial agreement provides for joint researches into factors that influence global climate changes and other ecological issues and the interrelations between them. 

Pryanishnikov highly praised the agreement, noting that Microsoft was very happy that its first-ever research center dedicated to the study of climate changes will be created in Russia in cooperation with one of the country’s top research institutes. “The findings from the RSI and Microsoft Research scientists’ studies will be used by the Natural Resources, Emergency Situations and Agriculture Ministries as well as agro enterprises and fire-fighting services,” he said. “We believe that this work can make significant contributions to the development of an innovative economy and make life in our society much safer and more effective.” 

In his reply speech, Nazirov called the plans to create a research center a new step in the development of partnership relationships between RSI and Microsoft, which is a continuation of the expansion of the fruitful bilateral cooperation agreements between the two companies over the past several years. “We hope this joint initiative will enable us make significant contributions to the studies of the global changes in our environment, which will in turn help us to build a safer and more efficient environment for human habitation on our planet.”