According to Interfax, Googles proposed deal to puchase the contexual ad provider, Begun.ru, for $140m was shot down by the Russian Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) on Thursday.
The reason cited has been a lack of clear information on the “individuals who can exert influence on the activity of the Google group, as well as a list of [...]

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Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia, has released new figures this month on the Russian blogosphere. As usual this report is in Russian but I’ve translated the main points below in English.

There are now 3.1m blogs in Runet, 2.6 times larger than at this time last year.
The blogosphere in Russia represents 3% of the [...]

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In a new report on online retail, Yandex reports that the sector has shot up 42% last year, outstripping the 25% growth seen in the West.
As expected the interest in on-line shopping was significantly higher in Moscow than in the regions: 61% of all Russians who logged onto retailers’ websites last year were from the [...]

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To start off our new consultancy reports section we have commissioned a special 7 page report on the current legal situation of online gaming in Russia. This is especially useful information in light of new gaming legislation signed into law at the start of 2007.
The author of this report is an expert in the [...]

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