Today, Yandex rolled out a beta version of its people finder. Yandex web users in Russia can now view all public profiles of a person with accounts on the country's most popular social networking and blogging websites, such as VKontakte, Facebook,...

Anyway, the huge amount of searches for people has prompted Yandex to roll out its ‘people finder’ service in beta. Basically, it enables Yandex users in Russia to access and filter all public profiles of a person with accounts on Facebook, VKontakte,...

“Chulpan wasn’t forced into recording the video in support of Putin at gunpoint or under threat to her foundation. This was entirely her own decision and choice. I know this for sure and I have no illusions about this,” wrote Russia’s top blogger,...

Maybe this is better. Oh. My. Goodness. (Not that goodness has much to do w/ it.) Now you gonna update the bog-rolls? You look like a depressed teenager’s LiveJournal, is that what you were going for It also seems a lot more cluttered Yeah, I have to...

Thank you for following me." Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said the official number of followers was 1,000,199. To commemorate the occasion, Medvedev posted a photo of himself visiting Twitter's main office in 2010. Medvedev has been active on...

Number of Twitter followers of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev exceeded one million, wrote Medvedev on his Twitter account on Saturday. “Today I have one million readers. Thank you for following me,” Medvedev wrote. Medvedev posted his photo made in...

Not everyone is a fan of complete transparency, though -- and it is not because they have a nefarious intent. The use of pseudonyms can lead to more honest, interesting and deep conversations, Anjelika Petrochenko, general manager at LiveJournal, told...

Producing about one chapter every four days, she is currently focused on the new BBC version of Sherlock and DC Universe: Batman. She contributes work to different archives dedicated to the amassing of fanfiction and also to her own blog on LiveJournal.

In the U.S. alone, the site experiences 10 million monthly unique visitors and 170 million monthly pageviews. The company is located in San Francisco, and since 2007 has been a part of Moscow, Russia-based online media company SUP Media. For more...

I totally read the US Weekly where they tell you what Kim Kardashian has for every single meal and I purchased it specifically to read that. [Laughs.] AVC: Do you subscribe to personal blogs and Twitter feeds? LD: I was definitely into personal blogs...

LJ Media communities can also elect to participate in an affiliate revenue program. LiveJournal general manager Anjelika Petrochenko said selected LiveJournal sites can expect a variety of technical support. "First, we help the sites to redesign and to...

This morning, LiveJournal unveiled LJ Media, a new "social publishing group" that is designed to take some of the social blogging service's most popular communities and give them an extra push toward prominence. The idea is that the best LiveJournal...

LiveJournal is still alive and well and today they’ve got a big announcement. They are unveiling LJ Media, a new social publishing group that aims to turn popular LiveJournal communities into thriving media sites. Back in December we gave you a sneak...

I am proud that another Russian is getting this honor.” After his rookie contract ended in 2008, Mr. Ovechkin signed a 13-year deal with the Washington Capitals worth $124 million - the most lucrative in NHL history. In an April 2008 post on his...

An opposition activist, Alexander Averin, said in his LiveJournal blog that the protest rally was held by supporters of the Other Russia unregistered party and other civil activists. He said the rally was against the March 4 presidential elections that...

Often, I’d give up early and flee to my hotel-like apartment. I couldn’t wait to call someone who knew me. My long distance bills were staggering. As the web became more popular and robust, online forums and sites like LiveJournal provided me with new...

For example, a popular LiveJournal blogger wild-che was apparently paid 18 million rubles a year for a number of posts in his blog. Blogger Sergey Mukhamedov, known to LiveJournal readers as ottenki-serogo, makes 30,000 rubles per every pro-Kremlin...

We talk about them constantly. We’ve even gotten them together (no, not shamrock-shaped tramp stamps after a night of binge drinking, although that would be funny ...ironically). On Jackie’s wrist is a star and the words “And It Came To Pass...” Also,...

There is, after all, a sense that America needs this, for the next 10 or 11 months straight. Here, from K-Lo’s LiveJournal update in the middle of her lonely night, because Sunday night is always the loneliest, after all the masses are over and she has...