For the record there is an OpenCoffee club in Russia: http://opencoffee.ru/ http://opencoffee.ru/. There are no upcoming events probably because everyone is to

For the record there is an OpenCoffee club in Russia: http://opencoffee.ru/ http://opencoffee.ru/. There are no upcoming events probably because everyone is too busy to meet. :) There are also a number of startup-style conferences in Moscow, the next one being RIT: Russian Internet Technologies: http://rit2008.ru/ http://rit2008.ru/ (all in Russian, ha ha, because that's their core market) MS and Intel are scouting Russian hackers and startups with the intent of supporting the startup culture as well: http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2008/03/14/043.html http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2008/03/14/043.html