Viktor Vekelsburg, a Forbes billionaire and one of the financiers behind Russia's Skolkovo Project. Vekelsburg, along with the country's top political leaders, hope to make Skolkovo at ...

Ten drones targeted the plant, igniting a fire. The facility is linked to Russia's state defense conglomerate, Rostec, and has been under U.S. sanctions since 2024.

"If you want to increase cybersecurity in the world," he says, "help [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin and [President] Medvedev." That's precisely what Silicon Valley companies are doing.

Russia's head honcho is passing through the San Francisco Bay Area to meet with top tech titans like the CEOs of Google ( GOOG ), Twitter and Apple ( AAPL) to pitch them on his plan to establish a ...