The Russia Blog
After a slow start, Russia has now officially got the largest number of web users in Europe.
According to the latest Comscore report, 50.8 million Russians have access to the internet through either a home or work connection. This means that, for the first time, Russia has more internet users than Germany, which… Read the rest
Russia’s World Trade Organisation entry has been all but guaranteed after the WTO’s Working Party on Russian membership agreed the precise rules and obligations that Russia will have to meet as a member of the global trading body.
The news comes almost immediately after a customs and trade monitoring agreement between Russia and Georgia which… Read the rest
Otkritie bank hit the headlines for valuing Facebook at $74 bn, but real story for Russia is that mail.ru is overvalued
The Vostok 3KA-2 capsule, the test spacecraft launched into space just three weeks before Yuri Gagarin’s historic first space flight will go on sale at Sotheby’s in New York next month.
Russia is the second largest online market in Europe, and the seventh largest in the world, according to a set of slides produced by Russian search engine Yandex.
i Newspaper is launched today for just 20p. It’s the first pay newspaper to be launched in the UK since 1984.
The long awaited 5th generation Russian Stealth Fighter, classified as the Sukhoi Pak-FA T50, flew its first test flight on 29 January 2010.
The Energia space launcher. The Ekranoplan KM ground effect vehicle. The TU-144 supersonic passenger plane. All provided the inspiration for top selling Russian watches.
In an interesting piece of protectionism, Google’s bid to buy Begun, the advertising arm of Russian search engine company Rambler Media, has been blocked by the Russian competition regulator.
Russia is the only European country where Google doesn’t have a dominant position in the online advertising market – it’s been struggling to push its… Read the rest
When I heard the news earlier today that Russia is about to loan Iceland $5.4 billion (the equivalent of 1/3 of Iceland’s GDP) to bail out the financially crippled country’s ailing banks, I thought to myself:
“Hmm, when I get home tonight I think I’ll write a tongue in cheek post wondering how long it
Dmitry Medvedev caught on video playing with his black market iPhone during a press conference with French President Sarkozy.
How Russian women are running their own online businesses that make fashion affordable – and make a profit.
Coca-Cola has begun production of Kvas in Russia, proving that there is no soft-drink market they are not prepared to take on.
