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E-democracy à la russe: Russians now have their own ‘We the People’ platform

November 19, 2014

In a bid to promote legislative ideas and suggestions from Russian citizens, the Information Democracy Foundation (IDF), a government sponsored non-profit, last week launched the beta version of the Russian Public Initiative (RPI), a web platform inspired by the US “We the People” online petition system. “The implementation of RPI is the next step in …

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Vkontakte.ru accused of collaborating with secret service to strangle anti-Putin user activity

November 19, 2014

Russia’s leading social network, Vkontakte.ru (also known as VK.com), has cooperated with the FSB – the post-Soviet successor to the KGB – in manipulating user trust and disregarding its own privacy rules, charged opposition-minded daily Novaya Gazeta. In a denunciation that has galvanized opinions in Russia’s digital domain for the last ten days, Novaya accused …

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Music copyright: Vkontakte refuses to pay

April 10, 2013

Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte – also known as VK.com – has appealed a court order to reimburse lost profits from a pop singer’s songs hosted on its website. This is one of many scandals involving VKontakte, which the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has accused of being one of the most important players in the audio piracy …

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Advertising tech startup Garpun raises $3.5 million from iTech Capital

April 10, 2013

Garpun, a Moscow-based startup that provides digital agencies and corporate advertisers with online ad management tools, has raised $3.5 million from the Russian PE & VC fund iTech Capital. The valuation of the startup has not been disclosed, but iTech Capital’s PR Director Victoria Gracheva told East-West Digital News that her fund usually maintains minority …

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E-learning startup launches internationally with $1 million in funding

April 10, 2013

People seeking to increase their business skills and knowledge now have a new way of accessing quality instruction without attending MBA classes at Stanford or INSEAD. Eduson.tv, a new e-learning service launched earlier this week by a team from Russia, provides courses from leading professors and expert guest lecturers – from London Business School Adjunct Professor …

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Ekaterinburg-based e-retailer e96.ru emerges as major Russian online retailer

April 9, 2013

E96.ru, an online retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances based in Ekaterinburg, claims that it generated no less that 1 billion rubles (approximately $33 million) in sales during the first quarter of 2013, up 206% from the same quarter of 2012. The future will determine how long the company will maintain this pace, but …

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RIA Novosti social media team: “We analyze news trends that might gain potential popularity in social media.”

April 9, 2013

With 9.7 million users from across the globe in February, the Internet audience of RIA Novosti exceeded those of Spiegel.de (8.62 million users), Lemonde.fr (8.49 million), Independent.co.uk (6.4 million), Aljazeera.net (2.26 million) and others, according to ComScore. The Russian news agency has developed a strong social media presence, with nearly 860,000 fans or followers on Facebook, 415,000 …

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TMT Investments injects $350,000 into US e-publishing startup

April 8, 2013

TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, has invested $350,000 in Graphicly, a US startup that helps publishers and self-published authors produce and distribute text and visual content on major digital publishing platforms. Graphicly’s self-service online toolset has been designed to reduce publishers’ go-to-market and ongoing costs. Once uploaded, Graphicly distributes the …

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Rostelecom to breathe new life into national search engine project

April 5, 2013

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …

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eBay enhances Russian version; launches first TV ad campaign

April 4, 2013

Demonstrating the growing importance of its sales in Russia – which reached $400 million last year, – eBay announced yesterday a series of enhancements to its Russian-language version as well as specific marketing initiatives. The new Russian-language functionalities encompass several key areas such as the product categories, search capabilities, and seller descriptions. Russian online shoppers …

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Sendmebox.ru raises $300,000 to build cross-border marketplace

April 4, 2013

A group of e-commerce entrepreneurs from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia has secured $300,000 in equity investment – including $200,000 from the Moscow Seed Fund and $100,000 from angel investor Andrei Golovin – to launch Sendmebox, a platform to help Russian online customers shopping on foreign sites. A few months before site launch, the deal valued …

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