Press conference of the delegation of IT'shnikov February 18 (leaders of eBay, Cisco, Twitter)

My colleague Vitaly has no account on Habré and he asked me to post material about the press conference where he was able to attend. So:

For many, the arrival of such significant figures of the global IT business came as a complete surprise. "Great and terrible" arrived yesterday (February 17). In general, apart from the information from the US State Department press release about the visit (and the purpose of the visit), nothing was known. The press conference, which took place today at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company at 14-00, should have shed light on this matter.
As you probably already understood, I visited her and I hasten to share with you% impressions and photos.


The press conference began about an hour late. A curious moment - because of traffic jams, it was very difficult to drive to the VGTRK building, and the leaders of well-known companies and Ashton Kutcher (Kucher) traveled to it on foot.
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Before the start, the photo shows the creator of Twitter - Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey).




And this is John Donahue (eBay John Donahoe) looking right at me :)

So start. The composition is as follows.
Jared Cohen of the US State Department - on the left; Howard Solomon of the National Security Council (Yeah, everything is under control;)) is on the right.


Padmasri Warrior (Padmasree Warrior) from Cisco (Tech Director!)


Well, are we going to chop Molotok?


Together.
A little later, Ashton appeared.




As the conference began late, it was announced that it would not be long.
So it happened. The first questions were addressed to John Donahue. “Do eBay plan to expand to Russia and how soon will eBay.ru appear?” The answer was as follows: “Yes, we are planning. But in the near future it will be only preparatory work in this area. "

Then followed very strange questions, most of which went to world movie star Ashton Kutcher (Dada, most of the journalists came because of him).
The questions were from the category - do you like Russia? What do you write in a blog about Russia (as LifeNews journalist said, “What do you write on the #RusTechDel platform?”) Do you plan to learn Russian? And so on. And then they say that everything, two more questions and the end. The penultimate one is about e-government - with the answer that we will help in this matter. The latter again Ashton in the spirit of the previous ones. Moreover, in his answers he focused on the problem of combating trafficking in persons, on offenses and so on.

Bottom line: there was nothing interesting there, unfortunately. The stars of the IT industry were eclipsed by a Hollywood actor.
After completion, I asked Jack Dorsey about the Russification of Twitter - he replied that it was in plan.

PS Photos in large size will also be (if necessary)