INSOR (abbreviated russian: Институт современного развития, Institute of Contemporary Development), known until March 2008 as RIO Center (russian: РИО-Центр, Center for Development of an Information Society), in a
Moscow
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-based nonprofit
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. Daily management of INSOR is delegated to Igor Yurgens, vice-president and spokesman of
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
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History
RIO Center, established in 2003, initially focused on the ways of modernizing Russia into an
information society
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, moving into
National Priority Projects
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area when these projects emerged in 2005.
INSOR was officially launched by Medvedev March 18, 2008 – after the election but prior to his inauguration. The organization declares a long-term goal of modernizing national social services within the framework of four
National Priority Projects
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:
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Agricultural Development
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civil society
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's government approach.
Earlier in 2008 INSOR launched an internet portal for the youth, mir4you.ru. It was criticized for a formal approach, lack of own exclusive content, massive
copyright violation
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and numerous factual errors due to unscrupulous use of outdated "borrowed" texts.
Personnel
INSOR's board of 12 includes, along with Medvedev, state servants (
Arkady Dvorkovich
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Yevgeny Yasin
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). There are no active businesspeople (with a probable exception of
Leonid Reiman
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). Executive staff is primarily academic (, Vladimir Mau etc.)
Institute for US and Canadian Studies
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Institute of World Economy and International Relations
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