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Occupying the cavernous spaces of a former automobile factory in Moscow's industrial zone, Technopolis has been struggling for years. The project, a brainchild of the city government, targeted Russia's long underperforming technology sector, providing a state-assisted leg up in a forbidding, oligarch-dominated marketplace.

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