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Russia’s best Twitter parody accounts

February 24, 2016

Twitter has blocked a satirical account ridiculing Igor Sechin, the powerful head of state-owned Russian oil giant Rosneft and a long time confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The account, @Igor_Sechin, was blocked inside Russia after the state media watchdog Roskomnadzor complained to Twitter that it violated Russian privacy laws. Frequently obscene and ferociously critical of the Kremlin, @Igor_Sechin is among a handful of popular Russian-language Twitter parody …

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Yandex announces Q1 2015 financial results

February 25, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam, Netherlands – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, we delivered good top-line performance with text-based advertising on our own sites growing 14%. The number …

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Google moves some servers to Russian data centers

February 28, 2017

Russia’s state-controlled telecommunications company Rostelecom informed the government that Google Inc. has moved some servers to Russia to comply with a controversial law requiring Internet companies to store Russians’ personal data within the country’s borders, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Following a meeting in late March with the communications ministry, a Rostelecom representative who attended the meeting said that …

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Yandex jumps 13% as EU and Google scuffle

February 25, 2016

With the European Commission’s antitrust complaint against Google, Russia’s home advantage in Internet search is evident. Shares of Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet search provider,  were up nearly 13% in the last half hour of U.S. trading, while shares of its smaller Russian competitor Mail.ru Group were down 1.7%. Google stock rose 0.6%.

Yandex trims staff amid economic crisis

February 25, 2016

Russian Internet firm Yandex will reduce its staff by 3 percent and slash hiring as the country’s economic crisis forces the company to optimize its operations and expenses, a spokesperson for the company said earlier this month. Around 170 people will be laid off as part of cuts, Yandex spokeswoman Asya Melkumova told The Moscow Times. While this figure is lower than the 750 fired last year …

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Pavel Durov: “The Russian tech environment became much less liberal, losing freedom as one of its competitive advantages”

February 25, 2016

“Facebook is losing traction within the younger generation,” Vkontakte founder and former CEO Pavel Durov told UK magazine Dazed, while Telegram, the messenger which he created in, now attracts 50 million users worldwide. Presenting himself as an advocate of political freedom and tech individualism, Durov also shared his thoughts about Russia’s latest evolutions and his dream …

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Mozilla makes Yandex the default search engine for Firefox in Turkey

February 25, 2016

Earlier this week Yandex.Turkey and Mozilla Corporation announced that Yandex will be the default search engine for Turkish language versions of Firefox on mobile and desktop, starting with Firefox’s next update, planned for this week. “The agreement is part of Mozilla’s new strategy to promote choice by making locally relevant search engines the default in various …

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Russian startup helps users learn European languages in just one minute a day

April 14, 2015

According to Facebook statistics there are more than two million Anglophones in Brazil that would like to learn Portuguese. In Mexico there are almost 2.5 million Anglophones that would like to learn Spanish. In the U.S. there are more than 1.6 million Spanish speakers that need English and almost three million people that would like …

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Pearson inks deal with Russian online education platform ‘Azbuka’

February 26, 2016

Russian online education platform ‘Azbuka’ will soon offer customers access to electronic textbooks from global publishing firm Pearson. Based in London, Pearson is the world’s largest educational publisher, with its textbooks used by more than 100 million people worldwide. Azbuka (meaning alphabet, or ABC) is a Russian online educational service which offers access to electronic …

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Mail.ru Group says headhunter sale in doubt as Russia’s recession dampens revenue growth

February 26, 2016

Russian Internet group Mail.ru said on Thursday the sale of its recruitment site might not be completed after the company saw an economic downturn constrain ad spending. The company expects revenue growth of 7-12 percent after 14.8 percent last year that included the results of the VKontakte social network on a pro forma basis, it said in a statement.

‘Future Academy’ blends online and offline to bridge Russian, US educational systems

April 14, 2015

Last month the fledgling Russian online education industry saw the launch of a new, internationally-oriented project. Using both online and offline teaching methods, The Future Academy offers fully accredited secondary education programs to Russian kids 12 to 17 years of age. The school has been backed at the seed stage by Russian venture fund Digital Ventures, …

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