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The speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament has proposed the creation of a Russian "Silicon Valley" on the Moscow-annexed peninsula of Crimea.
Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said at a session devoted to Russia's regions that the project could be implemented "taking into account the business experience of Russia's regions."
Matviyenko said "it is necessary" to work on the creation of some kind of a Crimean Silicon Valley that would house "facilities producing microelectronic and communication devices" similar to the area in California that headquarters most of the world's major technology companies.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine one year ago after deploying Russian troops across the peninsula and conducting a referendum that has been condemned around the world as a violation of Ukrainian and international law.
In 2009, Russia announced plans to build the Skolkovo Innovation Center near Moscow as Russia's future Silicon Valley.
Then-President Dmitry Medvedev said at the time the site would be a highly modern complex created to encourage science and technology companies.
(TASS, Interfax)
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Three Killed After Bus Hits Mine In Eastern Ukraine
Three people have been killed in eastern Ukraine after the bus they were riding in struck a land mine.
Officials said the bus was traveling from Artemivsk, a town controlled by government troops, to Horlivka, in a separatist-held area northeast of the city of Donetsk.
According to reports, the bus struck the mine when the driver tried to go around a checkpoint.
The wounded, numbering at least seven, were taken to a hospital in Artemivsk.
Elsewhere, President Petro Poroshenko was on hand at Kyiv's international airport to oversee a shipment of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, including 10 Humvee vehicles.
In total, Washington plans to send 200 regular Humvees, radios, countermortar radars and other nonlethal equipment worth $75 million.
U.S. President Barack Obama has so far refused to heed calls from Congress to send defensive arms and ammunition to Ukraine.