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Twitter continued to look back on 2010 (even though 17 days still remain), following up Monday’s announcement of the top 10 Twitter trends of the year with its list of 2010′s 10 Most Powerful Tweets, announced Tuesday. The list:

1: Ann Curry, @AnnCurry: @usairforce find a way to let Doctors without Borders planes land in Haiti: http://bit.ly/8hYZOK THE most effective at this.

2: The White House, @whitehouse: Welcome to @twitter President Medvedev! RT @KremlinRussia_E: Hello everyone! I’m on Twitter, and this is my first tweet.

3: Leigh Fazzina, @LeighFazzina: I’ve had a serious injury and NEED Help! Can somone please call Winding Trails in Farmington, CT tell them I’m stuck bike crash in woods.

4: BP Public Relations, @BPGlobalPR: Catastrophe is a strong word, let’s all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy.

5: Presidencia Ecuador, @Presidencia_Ec: Gobierno declara estado de Excepción #Ecuador #30S

6: Clarence House, @ClarenceHouse: The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton – www.princeofwales.gov.uk

7: Jonathan Schwartz, @OpenJonathan: Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more

8: John M. Foster, @foster208: Congratulations to Raul Labrador on a hard-earned win, and best of luck as Idaho’s next Congressman.

9: Carles Puyol, @Carles5puyol: Gran ambiente en la rua!!orgulloso de ver a tanta gente feliz. http://twitpic.com/24qkg5

10: Conan O’Brien, @ConanOBrien: Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.

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Russian president Dmitry Medvedev‘s attempt to create a ‘Silicon Valley’ from scratch in his homeland gained the support of one of the Internet’s big guns this week.

After his tour of Silicon Valley, Medvedev managed to secure $1 billion in investment from networking giant Cisco Systems, which pledged to invest capital in Russian startups, and to eventually locate a second headquarters for its Emerging Technologies Group in Skolkovo, Russia’s planned startup community just outside Moscow.

Cisco will also help design the Skolkovo technology city, and will follow the business model set by the development of its high tech Globalisation Centre East campus in Bangalore, India.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev flew to California this week to drum up support for his country’s attempt to build an entrepreneurial enclave just outside Moscow.

He met with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, and plans to meet with the founders of Twitter, as well as Google CEO Eric Schmidt, before meeting US President Barack Obama in Washington D.C.

Over the past four months, Russia has been building it’s own version of California’s Silicon Valley, called the Skolkovo ‘innovation city.’

“I want to see how things work on Silicon Valley. We would like to create something similar in the Russian Federation – adjusted to suit our views, of course,” Medvedev said in a Wall Street Journal interview.

To reduce its economic dependence on natural resources such as oil and natural gas, Russia has been pouring its efforts into high tech development. The government created a company called Rusnano to invest in nanotechnology, and has been supporting regional venture funds to invest in tech companies.

Medvedev also plans to meet with representatives with Cisco Systems, Yuri Milner, CEO of Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, and Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine.