According to a survey by the Worki portal (part of Mail.ru Group) and the research company ResearchMe among 3,250 users of the Russian segment of the internet 39%of job seekers in Russia try to find a new job through social networks. 
Among the ways to find a new job, 66%&nbsp;of respondents highlighted using websites with ads, and 51%of those surveyed said that they are trying to find a job through friends or acquaintances. 
Moreover, the higher the age of the applicant, the more likely he or she will look for a job by an acquaintance, according to the survey. From the age of 45, the share of those who use social networks to find a job drops to 35%.

39% of job seekers in Russia try to find a new job through social networks.

Using social media for job search

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VK plans to sell the My.Games gaming division, including the studios and gaming products, for 642 million dollars. The buyer is Alexandr Chachava, the managing partner of LETA Capital.

 
 After the acquisition, the founder of My.Games Vladimir Nikolskiy will continue managing the company. VK will develop gaming services under the VK Play brand headed by Vasiliy Maguryan, who has led the VK gaming division for over 8 years.

 
 According to the <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5582657" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a> of Kommersant, it was the removal of VK apps from AppStore that forced the parties to close the deal. The gaming division generated one third of VK’s revenue. At the end of Q3 of 2021, 77% of sales of My.Games were made outside Russia and the CIS countries, primarily in the USA, Germany and France.

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 The plans of VK to sell My.Games were <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5283356" target="_blank">announced</a> at the end of March, but the company did not comment on the situation at that time.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/vk-prodast-podrazdelenie-my-games-za-642-mln/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Interfax

VK to Sell My.Games Division for 642 Million Dollars

During the On Software Import Substitution in Industries strategic session Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that there exist domestic analogues of 80% of foreign software. There are one or two analogues for one third of these 80%. “And, most importantly, more than half of the solutions available on the Russian market are of medium or higher maturity level. There is no need to create them from scratch, we just need to enhance and use them,” Mishustin stated.

 
 The government has discovered almost 400 types of corporate software, the imports of which were extremely important for business. Annual spending of companies on licenses, implementation and support of such software is estimated at 200 billion rubles (2.9 billion dollars).

 
 Furthermore, Mikhail Mishustin said, the list of critical infrastructure objects will be expanded. This is necessary for accelerating the switch to Russian software. “We plan to include all key types of systems and applications into the range of critical infrastructure objects. The government will set the deadline for switching to Russian software for each item,” prime minister added.

 
 The session included the discussion of work results of 15 industrial competence centers in mechanical engineering, construction, utilities, pharmaceuticals industry and other areas. The representatives of ministries, state corporations, universities and associations, as well as of Kaspersky Lab, Bellsoft, ER-Telecom, VK, Amethyst Capital and other companies took part in the event.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/mishustin-dlia-80-inostrannogo-softa-est-rossiiskie-analogi/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Mikhail Mishustin: Russian Analogs Exist for 80% of Foreign Software

Yandex announces the completion of asset swap with VK. Yandex has acquired the Delivery Club food and grocery delivery service, while VK has acquired Yandex.Zen and Yandex.News in exchange.

 
 Yandex will continue developing the Delivery Club brand, its app and website will still operate. At the same time, the service will complement Yandex.Eats on the single technology platform.

 
 The deal was approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

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 Earlier Yandex was <a href="https://t.me/IFX_Digital/957" target="_blank">reported</a> to have acquired 99.95% of Delivery Club, the remaining shares belonging to GIS Tekhnologii (Yandex subsidiary). The deal was closed on September 8.

 
 The details of the asset swap between Sber, Yandex and VK were <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/iandeks-pokupaet-u-vk-servis-dostavki-delivery-club/" target="_blank">revealed</a> on August 23. VK announced that it would exit the O2O Holding (joint venture with Sber) and would acquire 100% of Delivery Club, which would later be transferred to Yandex. In exchange, VK will get the news aggregator and Zen.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/iandeks-zakryl-sdelku-po-prodazhe-dzena-i-novostei-i-pokupke-delivery-club/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Yandex

Yandex Sales Zen and News and Acquires Delivery Club

The companies of Yandex, VK, Ozon, MTS, Beeline and AmberData (controlled by the National Media Group) plan to become advertising data operators, which are required to send information about all campaigns in Runet to Roskomnadzor starting from the fall of 2022. Previously, it was expected that advertising market players would be able to independently transfer this information (the cost of contracts, the timing of campaigns, etc.) directly or through advertising data operators. However, a new set of amendments was adopted in July, allowing the data to be transmitted through advertising data operators only.

 
 According to the RBC sources, Yandex and VK have confirmed plans to become advertising data operators. MTS expects that the company’s subsidiary will be included in the list of applicants for this status. Ozon also confirmed the plans to create its own operator. AmberData is “working on theoperator creation”.

 
 According to Stanislav Danilov, a partner at the Pen & Paper law firm, working through an advertising data operator allows the advertiser to avoid the risks of incomplete or inaccurate data provision. Roskomnadzor said that it “does not have the authority to set prices for the services of advertising data operators”. At the same time, there are no instructions or recommendations concerning the costs of advertising data operator services in the law and in the already adopted bylaws.

 
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Six Russian Companies Plan to Become Advertising Data Operators

SberEntertainment, a subsidiary of Sberbank, plans to launch two new social networks: <a href="https://www.getchips.app/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chipz</a>, which is an analogue of TikTok for vertical videos, and <a href="https://punch.ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Punch</a> as a service for creating and promoting music.

 
 Chipz will combine “a catalog of content, video editor and social network”. The service will have different templates (chips), which can be used together with the built-in library of music, movies and shows. It will also be possible to advertise and sell goods via the app. The developers plan to add the option of creating own user chips and mini-games. The company plans to release Chipz in September.

 
 The second social network, Punch, will become a “mobile studio” for creating and promoting music. It will include a neural network that generates lyrics on the basis of a few words. The soft launch of the app took place on March 14.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/sber-gotovit-k-zapusku-dve-novye-sotsseti-chipz-i-panch/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Vedomosti

Sber Prepares to Launch Two New Social Networks ― Chipz and Punch

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IT Department of Moscow Government&nbsp;have analysed a labor market for ICT specialists in Moscow and presented their findings in September 2020.&nbsp;Their&nbsp;analysis showed that job openings&nbsp;for specialists in information technology and communications in Moscow account for 20% of all job vacancies in September 2020 (according to online recruitment platform hh.ru).

<ul>
	<li>More than 6.5 thousand current job openings&nbsp;are available for programmers in Moscow - almost one third (27%) of all ICT vacancies in the city. Over the year, since September 2019, the number of vacancies for programmers has grown by 14%.</li>
	<li>Programmers are among the most demanded and highly paid specialists in the labor market in the capital; they are in high demand in all sectors of economy. The job openings for programmers are distributed by industry in the following way:&nbsp;45% of job vacancies in IT and telecom companies, 14% &nbsp;- in the financial sector, 9% - at retail trade enterprises, 7% - in companies providing business services and the rest - in other economic sectors.</li>
	<li>The in-demand programming jobs on the labor market in Moscow in September 2020 are Java, 1C, PHP, C#, Javascript programmers and software engineers. The first three remain among the leaders for the third year in a row.</li>
</ul>

More than 6.5 thousand current job openings are available for programmers in Moscow.

IT Department of Moscow Government

The most in-demand programming jobs in Moscow and the level of salaries

Report

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The study was conducted with the support from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation within the framework of the “Human Resources for the Digital Economy” federal project. The compiles of the ranking analyzed more than 7,500 current job vacancies published on job search platforms HeadHunter, Superjob and Career.Habr.

<ul>
	<li>The most in-demand job is Java developer - 11.7% of the total number of jobs vacancies in “remote work” IT sector. The first half of the Top 50 ranking also includes developers of such programming languages as C#, PHP, Kotlin, Python, Golang (Go), Objective-C and Ruby. 1C developers became seventh in the ranking, and 1C Bitrix developers occupied thirtieth place.</li>
	<li>In addition to specialists in specific programming languages, the top twenty most in-demand jobs were data analysts, support specialists, product analysts, system administrators, system analysts, business analysts, technical support engineers, CRM analysts and product managers.</li>
	<li>Employers are often ready to ensure remote development and implementation of IT products: jobs in this area accounted for 58% of the total. There is a high demand for remote developers (more than 15 jobs in the field of programming in different languages), specialists in game design, machine learning, 3D modeling and artificial intelligence are also in demand.</li>
</ul>

11.7% of the total number of jobs vacancies in “remote work” IT sector are for Java developers.

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Top 50 in-demand IT jobs to work remotely

MADE Big Data Academy by Mail.ru Group and the online recruiting platform hh.ru have compiled profiles of Russian experts in data analytics and machine learning.

<ul>
	<li>In 2019, there were 9.6 times more job vacancies in data analytics, and 7.2 times more vacancies in machine learning than in 2015.</li>
	<li>The most popular skill is Python. It is required in 45% of data science vacancies and in half (51%) of vacancies in machine learning.</li>
	<li>Employers want data scientists to know SQL (23%), be proficient in data mining (19%), mathematical statistics (11%), and know how to work with big data (10%).</li>
	<li>More than half (65%) of vacancies in data analytics and exactly half of vacancies in machine learning are in Moscow. Saint Petersburg is in the second place - 15% of vacancies in data analytics and 18% of vacancies in machine learning.</li>
</ul>

The most popular skill is Python. It is required in 45% of data science vacancies and in half (51%) of vacancies in machine learning.

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Profile of Russian data scientists and machine learning specialists

MY.GAMES, global gaming brand launched by Mail.ru Group, conducted a study titled “Portrait of a Russian Gamer 2019” among players passionate about mobile, desktop, or console games, and evaluated the Russian gaming market for 2019. The survey created a profile of the Russian gaming audience in general and for each market segment separately.

Key findings:&nbsp;

<ul>
	<li>The volume of the Russian video game market in 2019 increased by 14% year-on-year and amounted to 120.4 bln rubles.</li>
	<li>Mobile games were the main driver of growth in 2019 (+49% to 48.1 bln rubles) and almost caught up in volume with free games on PC amid slowing growth of the latter (+5% to 49.1 bln rubles).</li>
	<li>The study polled over 1,500 people aged from 15 to 44 years. Among them, 85% played mobile games at least once a month, 82% - PC games, and 19% - console games.</li>
	<li>Among all Russian players, 85% played mobile games once a month. The audience for mobile games is equally distributed between men and women. Compared to 2017, in 2019 players of both sexes were much more likely to use entertainment apps on smartphones and tablets: more than half of respondents said they play every day.</li>
	<li>In regards to PC games, male gamers constituted the majority among the players who prefer desktop games - their share reached 58%. Compared to 2017, gamers of both sexes played computer games more often: almost 40% of respondents said they play every day.</li>
</ul>

Английский

The volume of the Russian video game market in 2019 increased by 14% year-on-year and amounted to 120.4 bln rubles.