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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
Four Yandex-Linked Researchers Enter the Stanford-Elsevier Top 1% in AI and Image Processing
The group includes Artem Babenko, head of a Yandex Research lab, and shows that Russia's recognized AI research depends heavily on one company working under sanctions.
Elsevier, which publishes about a quarter of the world's journal articles, has released its 2025 ranking of the most influential scientists, and the Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reports that Russian researchers placed in the top…
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Russia's Narrow Sovereign AI Base
Russia will keep a small, efficiency-focused domestic AI research base concentrated in a few firms, enough for Russian-language sovereign models but not for frontier competition, so countries aligned with Russia will turn to Chinese stacks for frontier capability.
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