Social Media In Moscow

Two deadly explosions in Moscow metro became the main theme in the Runet (Russian Internet) on March 29, 2010. The blasts occurred during the morning rush hour in central Moscow. The first was at the Lubyanka metro station (7:50 am), the second came 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station.
Social media in this extreme [...]

Day of mourning in Moscow and in Runet

2 Deadly Explosions in Moscow metro became the main theme in Runet. The blasts occurred during the morning rush hour in central Moscow. The first was at the Lubyanka metro station (7:50 am), the second came 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station. Social media turns to be more quick and operative than traditional [...]

New type of conversation

Recently in Moscow there was very heavy traffic because of unexpected snow. And almost all city stopped in cars on the roads. Many of clerks had been stucked in traffic for more than 3-5 hours. And what did the do?
With yandex.traffic service which helps to identify the situation on the roads and to mark (put [...]

Government intends to use social media in Russia as the source if ideas

Ministry of mass communications of Russia announced tender of developing a program which would allow to find different ideas useful for the government in Runet and Russian blogosphere. Ministry is ready to give 5 mln rubles on this project.
From documents we see that the issue of this project is finding out special social networks, creating data [...]

Welcome to Edelman globe from Moscow

 Our greeting video for interactive wall for the new NY office. Starring: Viacheslav “Slava” Tikhomirov, Director, International Affairs.

Internet Experts Unite Into The Association “Social Media” (Russia)

The Social Media Association has been founded in Russia as a group of experts working with social media, with the support of the Regional Public Center of Internet Technologies (ROCIT), Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEK) and Internet & Business Association (AIB). The goals of the SM Association include but are not limited to:
• interchange [...]

Trust in Russia

Last week Edelman Russia presented this year’s trust findings in Moscow at the International Council for Cooperation and Investment forum.
The event was headlined by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, attended by several of Russia’s most notable CEOs, and widely reported by business media.
Jere Sullivan, Edelman’s Vice Chairman of Europe, presented the data [...]

Russian “Digital” President Medvedev now is available on LiveJournal.Com

When media announced on April, 21 at 14 p.m about Russian president’s blog in LiveJournal, which was launched on February,09 with aggregated content from his Vlog on Kremlin.ru (by the way, on January’09 his vlog switched on the users comments) – the quantity of his friends achieved more than 1 thousand till 20 p.m and raised [...]

Edelman’s offices collection

Today I’ve got greetings from NY by Chris Weston. He said in his letter that he was just looking at “Views from Edelman Offices” article on Runetreview and Flickr and thought to add one more.
 
“This is the southern view from the New York office. We only have a few months left here in this location, but this is [...]

Ru-commerce 2009

What does Runet buy online? According to Nielsen’s global research about online behavior (January, 2008) – Russian users more often prefer to buy via e-commerce books (42%), electronic stuff (33%), video, DVD, games (29%), music (23%) and software (23%).
Russian users not often buy clothes, accessories and shoes – just 19% (In Germany 42%, USA – 41%, [...]