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Swedish investor has “real romance” with Russian classifieds site

April 6, 2011

Swedish investment company Vostok Nafta Investment called Avito.ru, its online-classified-ads affiliate company in Russia, the “real romance” of its portfolio in 2011. Vostok Nafta, which owns 25.8% of Avito, claims in its annual report that the site established itself as “the number one online classifieds operator in Russia” following the “explosion” of its traffic since …

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E-mail marketing in Russia – The birth of a market

April 5, 2011

Three years ago, when I began executing e-mail marketing campaigns for companies in Moscow, most of my clients called a newsletter a “spam letter.” The situation was that desperate! Since then, Russia has become more technologically savvy, and my clients wield with ease such concepts and terms as transactional e-mail, click-to-open rate, deliverability, and many …

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New powerful players enter online footwear market

April 5, 2011

Russia’s online footwear market, which only a year ago almost resembled a desert, is witnessing rapid transformation following the initiatives of a number of major players. This market was recently estimated to have a potential of at least €100 – 150 million.

MTS buys broadband operator in Altai for $19.2 million

April 5, 2011

MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, has acquired full ownership of Inteleca, an alternative operator providing broadband Internet and cable TV services in Barnaul and Biysk in the Altai region. The sale of the company came to $19.2 million, according to MTS.

New investment in local deal site

March 31, 2011

Russian venture investor Ru-Net II has invested an undisclosed amount in Biglion, one of the numerous Russian Groupon copycats, reported blogger Yakov Sadchikov last week.

President Medvedev pushes national search engine project

March 30, 2011

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been reported as lamenting the fact that while Google and Yandex are vast archives for storing everyday user-generated “art,” the organization of this information is a “complete mess” and needs to be channeled to a more civilized place.” “We have devoted a lot of time to debate about whether Russia …

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Russian startup launches new social media monitoring system

March 30, 2011

BuzzLook.ru, a new social media monitoring system, was launched earlier this month. The site allows searches for keywords on such popular Russian and international resources as social networks Vkontakte.ru and Facebook, hosting sites Youtube and Flickr, blogging platform LiveJournal, as well as on Twitter.

Russian search engine Nigma.ru launches Vietnamese version

March 29, 2011

Nigma.ru, a little known but innovative Russian search engine, could make a Vietnamese version of its service available as soon as April 1 under the domain name Itim.vn, meaning “I seek” in Vietnamese.

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