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Poker Officially Classified As Sport in Russia

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Gambling companies have welcomed the news that poker is now officially classified as a “sport” in Russia following an order signed March 26 by the Federal Sports Agency head, Vyacheslav Fetisov. On June 26, 2007, Seven-Card Stud Poker, Omaha and Texas Hold’em were officially included in the All-Russia Registry of Sports.
“This game doesn’t have any [...]

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Tags: Legal · Russia

2008 Runet Awards Celebrate Russian Internet Leaders

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The 2008 Russian Internet or Runet Awards were given away last week in a lavish ceremony held in Moscow. Russian singers and celebrities were among the audience as leading players in Russian internet industry were awarded for their contribution to the development of the Russian segment of the internet.
The awards have been running since 2004 [...]

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Tags: Google · Rambler · Russia · Yandex

Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop Russia

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Guy Kawasaki, arguably the interwebs most famous VC, has launched a Russian section for his news aggregator – Alltop. As Chris Shipley, the chairman of Guidewire Group and executive producer of DEMO explains in Guy’s blog:
“Alltop is deceptively simple. The site gathers up the best suggestions from the most active social web users and compiles [...]

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Tags: Russia

Russians Adopts Legal Definition of Internet Media

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

RBC Daily reports on the latest moves by the Russian government to adopt the first ever legal definition of “Internet media”. It will join print media, radio and TV in the Russian law “About Media” and receive the same legal recognition.
According to Senator Vladimir Slutskera, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, under the [...]

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Tags: Legal · Russia

Russian AntiMonopoly Service Blocks Google Deal

October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Begun · Conferences · Domains · Google · Rambler · Reports · Russia · Social Media · Yandex

How Will Google U-Turn Affect Gaming Advertising In Russia?

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Google’s recent change of policy in the UK to allow PPC advertising for online gaming has re-opened the issue in the Russian markets. This Friday Google started to allow online gaming advertisers to again participate openly in their PPC program, Adwords.
As NewMediaAge reports, the initial ban was enforced as part of a company-wide, global move [...]

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Tags: Google · Russia

Russian Online Advertising Spending Predicted At $600m

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

According to the MindShare Interaction research agency, advertising in Russia grew 73% to $260m in the first half of 2008 and may top $600m this year.
Foreign automakers now spend an average of 20% of their Russian ad budgets online, underscoring the huge preference media buyers now place on the Internet at the expense of traditional [...]

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Tags: Russia · Statistics

BlackHat SEO Acquitted By Russian Judge

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments

The first ever Russian lawsuit brought against a BlackHat SEO was dismissed this week in St. Petersberg. The SEO in question had used trademarked terms belonging to other companies in the META tags of their clients’ sites. This was done in an attempt to rank their clients in the SERPs for these trademarked terms. Under [...]

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Tags: Legal · Russia

Interview With Vladimir Dolgov Head of Google Russia

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

This interview is a little old but well worth watching if you are interested in the Russian Internet. It was carried out in April this year by the Russia Today network with Vladimir Dolgov, Head of Google Russia. RT do not offer embedded video, so just click this link or the image below.

Technorati Tags: Google, [...]

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Tags: Google · Interviews · Russia

Ex-CEO Ashmanov On Latest Deal Between Rambler and Google

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

On the 27th July, Radio Station Ekho Moskvi (Moscow Echo) invited the ex-Managing Director of Rambler for an interview on the latest deal between Rambler and Google. This is an English translation of the show you can watch below:

Igor Ashmanov started his interview with answering some questions about his web service, search engine analyzer http://www.analyzethis.ru/, [...]

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Tags: Rambler · Russia · Yandex

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