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Articles:

	Russian Social Networks: An Overview
	Russia with 170 mln population has a big potential for social nets expansion. People’s desire to keep in touch, share and get information about friends, family members, class-mates, play games and just to be trendy has let social nets to grow in quality and quantity. Now it is Russian social nets, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Moy Mir, Moy Krug which are most popular among Russians.
--20-01-2012--
	The Ural Guide: Where to Go Online in Yekaterinburg
	Whether you are just visiting the capital of the Ural region or live there long-term, there may be a point when you need to get on the Internet in town. We have scouted Yekaterinburg to find out where it is that you can surf the web - for free or not. Information is true as of September 2011.
--26-09-2011--
	Website Translation and Localisation for Russian and Foreign Businesses
	If you want your business to reach out to a foreign audience, it is important to speak its language. We help Russian businesses to speak proper English, and we turn English websites into perfect Russian.
--03-08-2011--
	Yandex-gate: Private User Data Surfaces in Search Results
	The last two weeks have been a nightmare for Russian Internet users. First, online SMS's went public; then it was the data for online shoppers, including sex shop clients; finally, yesterday it was the order data for Russian Railways customers.
--02-12-2011--
	Russian Search Engines to Cooperate
	A month after beginning the exchange, Russian Yandex has started a project that will cetrainly allow the company to increase the capitalization. The largest Russia's search engine Yandex and its competitor Rambler has signed an ageement. From this month Rambler will use the search engine of Yandex.
--22-05-2012--
	Electronic Era is Coming
	From this moment any company may share with other companies their electronic documents instead of paper documents using. Web Service Diadoс appeared in Russia, it is used for transmitting documents via Internet.
--22-05-2012--
	Yandex Plans IPO on Nasdaq
	Russia's largest Internet search engine Yandex has officially announced about its plans to list shares on Nasdaq in New York. Yandex N.V., the parent company of Yandex, registered in the Netherlands, said it had sent a request to the Commission's Securities and Exchange to list shares on Nasdaq.
--25-11-2011--
	Russian Hackers Will Go to Prison
	An organized group of Russian hackers that have stolen more than 70 million dollars from U.S. bank accounts will spend only a few months in prison.
--22-05-2012--

News:

	Russian Internet Audience Is the Biggest in Europe
	More that a half of Russians are active Internet users - 58% - which is twice as much as six years ago.
--19-04-2012--
	How to Name Your New Party?
	An online voting is launched for choosing the best name for Mikhail Prokhorov's new political party.
--26-03-2012--
	Russia Is Ahead of Britain in Broadband Internet Access
	According to a survey conducted by JSon and Partners Consulting, in 2011 Russia was ahead of Britain in providing broadband Internet access.
--21-03-2012--
	Unusual Student's Experiment in Tambov: No Internet, No Mobile Phones
	An unusual experiment will be held at Tambov State University May 10-31. During three weeks 25 student volunteers will not use computers, mobile phones, tablets and other popular gadgets.
--29-02-2012--
	Wi-Fi Spots Come to Moscow Underground
	2012 promises a lovely present for the Internet-savvy Muscovites: Wi-Fi hot-spots will be piloted on several stations on the Moscow Underground. If successful, the project will extend to incorporate tunnels, to provide Wi-Fi access throughout the Moscow metro.
--19-01-2012--
	"Stop SOPA" Action Supported by Russians
	Yesterday the global campaign against anti-piracy bills in the U.S. Congress was supported by Russian Pirate Party and some other activists.
--19-01-2012--
	Tourists Are Offered a Live Webcam Walk through St. Petersburg
	A new project VPiter gives an opportunity to see St. Petersburg online. The company launched 19 live webcams that help tourists to take a virtual walk through the main attractions of the city.
--26-12-2011--
	Yandex Ads Banners to Rise 67% in Price
	The price for media advertising will rise 67 % on the main page and in average 28% on other pages on the largest search engine in Russia,Yandex, claimed the company.
--05-12-2011--
	Russian MMORPG Allods Online is Among Most Expected Games in China
	Russian massive multiplayer online role-playing game “Allods online” has become one of the most expected new arrival in China.
--27-11-2011--
	Moscow Airport Offers Check-In via Skype
	Sheremetyevo International Airport has launched a new service – flight chek-in via Skype video call.
--24-11-2011--
	LiveJournal Will Be Free from Advertising Banners
	LiveJournal will remove all banner adverts from the service's pages. The famous blogging platform's new Director General, Ilya Dronov, announced it within a special press-conference dedicated to the service's future.
--22-11-2011--
	Advertising Leaves Print Media for Internet
	In the third quarter costs for Internet advertising has exceeded costs for ads in print media for the first time.
--07-11-2011--
	VKontakte Plans to Compete with LiveJournal
	VKontakte plans to become the top blogging platform and will compete with LiveJournal for Russian Internet users. The social network wants to attract the most popular bloggers of the Russian Internet on its pages.
--02-11-2011--
	Russian Twitter to be Launched by Mail.ru Group
	Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group is to launch its own service of micro blogs, which may compete with Twitter.
--31-10-2011--
	Russian Married Couple Accused of Online Piracy
	A husband and wife duo has been given the case over illegal video distribution, becoming another target in Russia's anti-piracy clamp down for sharing films on the Internet.
--28-10-2011--
	Russian Internet Week 2011 Opens in Moscow
	The annual Russian Internet Week 2011 (RIW 2011) will be opened for the fourth time from 19 till 21 October 2011 in Moscow at ExpoCenter in Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, 14.
--16-10-2011--
	LookAtMe Portal Adds a TV Section to the Menu
	A popular Russian web portal, LookAtMe, has announced the start of its own Internet TV. The audiences will now be able to follow the latest style and design trends, catwalks, and fashionable looks in a new audio-visual dimension
--14-10-2011--
	Russians Will Miss the Man who Changed the World
	Today the Russian President, many Russian officials and famous bloggers, as well as thousands of Russian people, offer their condolence over the death of Steve Jobs, the founder and ex-CEO of the Apple company.
--06-10-2011--
	Trololo Man Appears in the American Series
	Popular Soviet and Russian singer Eduard Khil has become a personage in one of the series of "Family Guy" animation serial. Being in the form of waiter, the animated Khil sang his famous "trololo" song.
--04-10-2011--
	Moscow to Apply for .moscow Domain Name
	Moscow may have its own domain name .Moscow and . Москва. Moscow will apply for it in January 2012.
--01-10-2011--
	Russian Internet Shop OZON Attracts Record Investments
	Ozon.ru has attracted investments to the record amount of $100 million, the company’s press-release reports.
--08-09-2011--
	Yandex Has Obtained The Tweeted Times
	The internet company Yandex has obtained the service The Tweeted Times, says its press release.
--30-08-2011--
	Bloggers Request to Award Russian Booker of Decade to Ruben Gonzalez Gallego
	Bloggers have addressed open letters to jury members and winners of the Russian Booker award with the request to award Booker of Decade to Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, who has recently got into an accident in Washington.
--25-08-2011--
	Russians to Get Paid on E-Bay through PayPal
	Internet payment company PayPal has let to transfer money to the Russian accounts from abroad. This will allow Russians to trade and get paid on e-Bay auction.
--24-08-2011--
	Enquiry: Why Cell Operators Charge More for Cyrillic SMS Messages?
	The Federal Antimonopoly Agency of Russia is to conduct an enquiry into mobile network charges of Russian operators, following claims that their cost depends on the choice of an alphabet.
--05-08-2011--
	Russian Police Wants to Know About Young People's Preferences
	Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev has said that the activity of some Internet resources should be restricted to prevent extremism among the youth.
--03-08-2011--
	Russian LiveJournal Bloggers Are Again Disconnected
	Yet again the Russian LiveJournal has been under an avalanche of D-DOS attacks. The service is still unavailable for some users.
--27-07-2011--
	Vkontakte Closes its Own Payment System
	Russian most popular social network Vkontakte decided to close its payment system, as it doesn't fit the legal requirements of the national payment system, approved by Russian President at the end of June, 2011.
--14-07-2011--
	Rambler Entered Top Three Russia's Most Popular Gaming Platrofms
	Russia's combined project Rambler and Afisha has acquired a gaming portal Kanobu Network.
--30-06-2011--
	Vkontakte Moves to .com Domain
	Russian most popular social network Vkontakte.ru will get an international domain in two month. At this moment the project has two domains vkontakte.ru and vk.com.
--16-06-2011--
	Microsoft to Cooperate with Russia's FSB
	Microsoft company does not preclude the possibility of disclosing of the source code for Skype to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The company notes, that this is just a source code, not an encryption algorithm of the program.
--09-06-2011--
	Yandex's Employees Became Millionaires
	Selling shares of Russian Yandex on Nasdaq has allowed comany's employees to earn an average of two million dollars.
--30-05-2011--
	Yandex to Complete the IPO
	Russia's largest Internet search engine Yandex plans to raise 1,3 billion dollars in the IPO.
--24-05-2011--