Facebook will create a research and development center in Russia. Such agreements were reached at a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, who was present at this meeting, writes in his Twitter blog.

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“D. Medvedev agreed with M. Zuckerberg that it would be more profitable to open a Facebook research and development center in Russia,” writes N. Nikiforov.

Let us recall that on the eve of M. Zuckerberg’s arrival, a member of the working group on the formation of the Open Government system in Russia, President of IBS Group Anatoly Karachinsky, announced that employees of leading Russian IT companies had received an offer from Facebook for work and “immediate evacuation to America.” . A. Karachinsky called this an outright operation of mass export of Russian programmers.

Probably, now - after the creation of the Facebook center in Russia - the need for “brain removal” disappears.

As the Prime Minister's press secretary Natalya Timakova told reporters, Facebook can operate in Russia not only as a social network, but also as a company working on advanced software developments. In addition, during the meeting between D. Medvedev and M. Zuckerberg, cooperation between Facebook and Skolkovo as a place for startups, as well as the development of social networks in the world, were discussed.

“Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev - RBC note) joked, asking if he understood correctly that B. Obama will win, since he has many more people in his “followers” than M. Romney,” said N. Timakova. To which M. Zuckerberg noted that when he created Facebook, communicating with friends at the university, he did not imagine that this network would become a political factor.

Let us add that the founder of Facebook presented the head of government with a T-shirt with Dmitry Medvedev’s address on the social network.

M. Zuckerberg will not “export brains” from the Russian Federation