OREANDA-NEWS. The award was established by the editorial board of CNews, the leading publication in the area of high technologies in Russia and CIS. The list of nominees had been produced by the CNews Analytics expert group. Three nominees in each nomination were then selected for the final stage of the competition.

The award ceremony was carried out in the presence of the heads of Russian and foreign companies, representatives of government bodies, market experts, and journalists. The winner in the “Telecom innovations” nomination was determined directly at the ceremony through an electronic vote taken by the participants.

Some of the winners in other nominations are as follows - Alfabank, CyberPlat, PROMT, Kaspersky Laboratory, ABBYY, Kraftway.