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17 posts
Azerbaijan Infrastructure Investment Dialogue at AIIF 2026 Kirill Rubinski
September 29, 2026 5 min Topics

The Middle Corridor Is Becoming More Than a Transport Route

At the Azerbaijan International Investment Forum in Baku, I recently took part in the Azerbaijan Infrastructure Investment Dialogue and a discussion on strategic transport and logistics corridors. The setting was appropriate. AIIF 2026 focused on connectivity and investment in an increasingly fragmented global economy, while the Infrastructure Investment Dialogue brought together perspectives on digital infrastructure, […]
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September 2026

Neqsol award winning - Kirill Rubinski
September 16, 2026 4 min Topics

AI Transformation Starts With People

Four awards are nice. Gold is even nicer. But what I particularly value about NEQSOL Holding’s recent recognition at the 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards is not the awards themselves. It is what sits behind them: a sustained investment in people. Among the four awards, our AI Upskilling Program received Gold in the […]
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August 2026

Kirill Rubinski
August 11, 2026 4 min Topics

The internet is less resilient than we like to think.

The internet feels intangible, but its vulnerabilities are surprisingly physical. A shovel cutting through a fibre-optic cable can disrupt connectivity across a country. An anchor dragging across the seabed can threaten communications between continents. A single point of failure, in the wrong place, can have consequences far beyond the immediate geography. These incidents are reminders […]
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July 2026

Kirill Rubinski CEO of NEQSOL Holdings
July 13, 2026 7 min Topics

On Letting Go: Why I Handed My Own Wealth to Professionals the Day I Became a CEO

The hardest delegation decision I have ever made was not about a company. It was about my own money — and, if I’m honest, about a part of my identity I wasn’t fully ready to release. I have spent a long career deciding where capital should go — across international banking, insurance brokerage, industrial investment […]
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June 2026

Kirill Rubinski CEO of NEQSOL Holdings
June 21, 2026 6 min Topics

Innovation Is Never Weightless

We often speak about innovation as if it were light.  A new idea appears, a product is launched, a company scales, a market shifts. The vocabulary around technology is full of movement: acceleration, disruption, transformation. It gives the impression that progress now belongs mainly to speed, to those who can move first, iterate quickly, and accept that […]
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May 2026

Kirill Rubinski CEO of NEQSOL Holdings
May 13, 2026 4 min Topics

A New Chapter at NEQSOL Holdings

There are moments in one’s professional life that invite more reflection than announcement. My appointment as CEO of NEQSOL Holding is one of them.  I have always believed that leadership is less about arrival than responsibility. A title may change overnight; trust does not. It is built slowly, through decisions, through consistency, and sometimes through silence; […]
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April 2026

April 29, 2026 2 min Topics

On the Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic Project

There is a tendency to describe infrastructure in visible terms, rail, ports, pipelines. Digital infrastructure, by contrast, is rarely seen, yet increasingly defines how systems function. The Trans-Caspian fiber optic cable sits precisely in that category. At one level, it is a 380-kilometer connection between Aktau and Sumgayit, developed together with our partners at Samruk-Kazyna […]
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April 28, 2026 2 min Topics

The Structure of Stability

Volatility is often treated as an external event; something to anticipate or avoid. In practice, it is a constant. Over time, I have come to see that the question is not how to predict disruption, but how to operate through it. Stability is not the absence of shocks. It is the ability to absorb them. […]
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March 2026

March 27, 2026 1 min Topics

PARLA and the Architecture of Opportunity

Talent, like critical minerals, is often described in terms of potential. In reality, it depends on systems that allow it to emerge. The PARLA program, developed with the Education Development Fund and supported by NEQSOL Holding, is one such system. With the third cohort now in place, the structure becomes clearer. Scholarships are only the […]
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Kirill Rubinski
March 24, 2026 1 min Topics

Talent as Infrastructure

Recognition is always appreciated. But it is rarely the point. The recent acknowledgment by the Association for Talent Development reflects something more structural within NEQSOL Holding: a sustained effort to treat talent not as a function, but as infrastructure. Organizations tend to speak about people in terms of potential. In reality, potential only matters if […]
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February 2026

February 24, 2026 1 min Topics

Building Across Supply Chains

Critical minerals are often discussed in terms of scarcity. Less attention is given to structure. The acquisition of United Mining and Chemical Company by NEQSOL Holding was, on the surface, an entry into mining. In reality, it marked the beginning of a longer supply chain strategy. Titanium is not simply a resource. It sits within […]
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February 23, 2026 2 min Topics

Between Industry and Fintech

There is a tendency to frame progress as a choice between worlds. Old economy or new. Infrastructure or software. In practice, this distinction is less useful than it appears. My own work in fintech did not begin with technology. It began much earlier, in operational environments (logistics, transportation, energy) where constraints are physical and outcomes […]
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