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As many of you already know, earlier today a terrible tragedy happened in Moscow – two explosions in the subway executed by two female suicide bombers and took lives of 38 people (with many still in intensive care of various hospitals so the number will probably increase still in the coming days). The worst part [...]

We in Russia love reforms, I think – or at least we have learned to love them over the last 20 years when we have been constantly reorganizing all the remnants of the Soviet Union. But the problem is that everything that we have comes from the Soviet past and also happens to be so [...]

Sometimes when I start typing a new query in the Firefox search field that will initiate search on Google for something useful for me, I watch the autosuggestions in fascination wondering exactly how and why people would search for all sorts of crazy things that Google claims we search for. I guess that full access [...]

Of course no one will argue these days that Twitter has become a huge online phenomenon and it influences lots of things for both end users, online and offline businesses. But how huge is it outside of the US where the trendy service is heavily promoted in traditional media? Russian internet giant Yandex has recently [...]

Today here in Russia we have finally learned the date when we should expect iPhone 3GS to become officially available in the country as one of the leading local mobile carries and one of the largest electronics retailer have announced that they are initializing the sales this week, on the 5th of March. It is [...]

Given how huge Google is and the giant’s reputation in the online business world, it is no wonder that everything that Google chooses to launch as a new product never stays unnoticed and gets tons of coverage in the blogosphere and in traditional media. The latest addition of Google Buzz is no exception, of course, [...]

As soon as in March we in Russia will see a localized version of eBay. The company says they hope to increase the share of Russian buyers and overall sales via this dedicated local version. In fact, eBay is making a serious push to the European market as it adds five more countries and languages [...]

Most of the time Russian news agencies are not particularly eager to cover the latest gadgets (especially those introduced on another side of the ocean). The reason is simple: these novelties are rarely something that many people in Russia are actually interested in so why bother covering them if only a handful of people will [...]

Yesterday both the blogosphere and traditional media were engaged in a discussion about the rumors published in the New York Magazine about one of the largest newspapers, New York Times, finally being close to making the decision of beginning to charge online users for their news. This is hardly actually news given that we’ve already [...]