East-West Digital News reviews the most important developments on the Russian high-tech scene in 2015. Today’s article covers the evolution of the e-commerce market in both its domestic and cross-border dimensions. The domestic scene With 160 million small packages and parcels sent to online consumers in 2015, up 10% from the previous year, Russia’s domestic online retail …
Earlier this month in its seventh edition, the Gaidar Forum, a yearly conference and elite gathering sometimes dubbed “the Russian Davos,” held a round table about Russian e-commerce in a global perspective. This topic was featured at the forum for the very first time. The discussion was live streamed online as well with some 300 …
Chinese and Russian e-commerce giants discuss cross-border trends at ‘Russian Davos’ Read More
AliExpress, the B2C subsidiary of Alibaba which last year became the number one online marketplace in Russia, has resumed delivery to Crimea. Just months ago, the Chinese platform had stopped serving this Black Sea peninsula, which is disputed between Ukraine and Russia. It was assumed that Alibaba was complying with western sanctions, which bar companies from …
Alibaba resumes B2C deliveries to Crimea, helps Russian companies sell goods in China Read More
AliExpress, the Chinese B2C marketplace which last year became number one online retailer in Russia, will allow Russian vendors to sell their goods through its platform starting from Nov. 11, news agency RBC reported last week. Nearly 20 Russian retailers will be available on AliExpress at start, said Mark Zavadsky, GM of Alibaba Russia. These companies include marketplace Wikimart.ru, online retailers …
Russian online retailers allowed to sell goods through AliExpress Read More
Social buttons are used for a number of reasons, and their use on Russian websites is fairly similar to their use on non-Russian websites. However, the unique Internet environment of Russia requires companies with an online presence in the country to become familiar with the social media services that are popular in Russia. This post will …
Russia’s plunging currency hasn’t weaned consumers off foreign goods. Instead, cash-strapped shoppers are turning to online retailers for imported smartphones, jewelry and clothes, giving an unexpected boost to Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. Alibaba’s AliExpress site posted a 40 percent increase in Russian visitors to 22 million in July compared with a year earlier, according to …
Facing China slowdown, Alibaba and JD find solace in Russia Read More
Chinese online retail giant AliExpress left the disputed territory of Crimea off its updated online order form, frustrating residents of the Black Sea peninsula, the local Crimean news agency Krym Media reported Friday. Initial reports of the order form change suggested that AliExpress, part of China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, was complying with Western …
AliExpress temporarily excludes Crimea from list of shipping destinations Read More
Illustrating the growing appeal of the Russian market, three significant Chinese e-commerce platforms have been launched in Russia for the past two weeks. In late August, as reported by business daily Kommersant, DHgate announced a partnership with two key Russian service providers, payment service provider QIWI and shipment company SPSR Express, to develop its activities in Russia. SPSR Express …
Starting from September 2015, the personal data of Russian citizens must be stored on servers located physically on the Russian territory. Adopted last year in a bid to affirm Russia’s digital sovereignty, this new law has provided many players with challenges due both to its demanding requirements and the ambiguity of some of its key provisions (see details in EWDN’s …
Just a few months after opening a Russian subsidiary, and while its subsidiary AliExpress has become Russia’s number one B2C platform, Alibaba is making a new step to assert its leadership in the Russian e-commerce scene. The Chinese e-commerce giant has just inked a memorandum of cooperation with Gazprombank, the subsidiary of the Russian gas monopoly, …
China’s Alibaba and Russia’s Gazprombank ink deal to stimulate B2B cross-border exchanges Read More
With e-commerce flowing from China to Russia continuing to grow quickly, market players, service providers, government officials and top experts from both countries will be gathering on October 5-6 at the China-Russia E-Commerce Summit. Not only will the current market trends be analyzed thoroughly and the most recent figures revealed, but the speakers will also …
China meets Russia in major Moscow e-commerce event Read More
Two notable Russian e-commerce sites are suspending their activities this summer, illustrating the crisis that has been affecting certain segments of this market since last year. While online auction and marketplace Molotok.ru, one of the country’s most established e-commerce sites, has announced it will shut down on August 20, Mamagazin.ru, a kids goods online store …
Russian e-commerce in crisis: Molotok shuts down, Mamagazin suspends activities Read More
