Novye Izvestia reports that Tuesday the Russian Federation Council has approved the creation intellectual property court. This new judicial body will settle legal argument related to intellectual property and patent rights and will be staffed with 30 judges experiences in the relevant field as well as a number of specialists in specific fields, who will give expert opinions to help judges make a fair ruling.

Currently due to the understaffed field of intellectual property rights jurisprudence, vague knowledge of its specifics and not always present objectivity of those involved, intellectual property cases generally take up to several years to process, which is much longer than, for example, family or labor law disputes. Experts believe that the creation of such a judicial body will help offload regular courts that already have their hands full, and help process legal disputes much faster.

Moskovskiy Komsomolets takes a look at the Top 100 Global Thinkers list compiled by the American journal "Foreign Policy". The famous Russian blogger, founder of the anti-corruption project "RosPil" and open oppositionist Alex Navalny is the only Russian to be on that list. He shares the 24th position along with Same Ben Ghabria, a blogger from Tunisia and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, WikiLeaks associate from Germany, as these three activists led their own transparency campaigns, according to the journal. Thus they were recognized quote "for shaping the new world of government transparency" unquote. According to the journal, Alex Navalnyy saved the Russian government around 7.7 million rubles in uncovered corrupt schemes and became the face of a growing anti-corruption movement. The newspaper notes that the majority of  top 30 positions of the list are those who took part in the so-called "Arab Sping". Barack Obama takes the 11th position and Mark Zuckerberg is 17th. Bill Gates together with his spouse share 13th position.

RBC Daily reports that in the past two years the number of commerce crimes has almost halved. However, in this regard Russia is still a long way to go compared to developed and even a number of developing nations. What Russia does correspond to the rest of the world in is the rapid boost of cybercrime. According the research published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) together with the London School of Economics, 37% of Russian companies suffered from financial fraud, which is 3% higher than the worldwide average. Of all commerce crimes committed in Russia in 2011 cybercrimes are accountable for 23%. It actually has become a worldwide trend, with the global average being 22.9%. PwC partner John Wilkinson explained that the schemes are getting more complicated. Russian companies underestimate the risks of cybercimes; often they even go unnoticed, his colleague Andre Ross added.

Experts believe that the number of criminals employing cutting edge information technology will only increase as people often do not realize the dangers of inadequately protected networks and Russia does not yet possess adequate professionals ready to repel digital criminals.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was one of the guests of the fourth annual Innovation Convention in Moscow held at Digital October, a centre for IT professionals. Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports that over a thousand of young, aspiring entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors gathered to learn and share experience in the field of IT.  Notable guests of previous conventions include Virgin founder Richard Branson, one of the first Apple employees Guy Kawasaki, physicist and futurologist Michio Kaku, president Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Vasily Yakemenko said: "Here we have venture capital fund managers who control hundreds of thousands of dollars. In essence, any member of the Convention can talk to an investor, give their business card, explain their project in two minutes and receive financing." unquote.

The newspaper notes that indeed the guests, such as Steve Wozniak were directly accessible by anyone interested. Experts note that innovators of such magnitude can start appearing in Russia in 10 to 15 years, but the nation needs to create an environment where innovation would thrive - and this Convention is one the steps towards achieving this goal.

Moscow food shoppers have traditionally walked a fine line between price and quality as they are forced to choose between supermarkets flogging expensive imported produce and the classic open market, where hygiene is questionable and an inexperienced buyer is susceptible to fraud and uninformed purchases. The Moscow Times suggests that now this can all change. The owners of a new, brightly lit, hangar-sized space in the Moscow region town of Mytishchi think they can offer the best of two worlds. This is EcoBazaar, Rosinter restaurant franchising group's venture into the world of food markets. Rosinter's main pitch is to provide small producers of high-quality food with a platform to access customers demanding fresh produce at "affordable" prices, with the attendant conveniences of a modern shopping center.