Russia has two homegrown social networks, VKontakte (VK) and Odnoklassniki (OK), which both grew with financial support of Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. Now properties of LSE-listed Mail.ru Group, these sites have shaped Russia’s social media landscape and still dominate the market far ahead of Facebook.
This video is part of “Holy War,” a seven-episode series by Russian journalist Andrey Loshak (Current Time TV) about the development of the Russian Internet.
