Another

The leader of Yandex rating is drugoi (it’s “another” on English). This illustrated blog is about everything on the world. The real name of the blogger – Rustem Adagamov. When I’ve asked him why he is blogging – for money, glory or self-realization – he’s told me that he is blogging because it’s very interesting to him to show an event around through photo report - his own or another’s as well. “My self realization is in other sphere – I’m the graphic designer in advertising, engaging in it of more than twenty years”. And on my question what is your blog about, he said: “My blog is about the life around, that I observe through an objective of the camera”. Authority of his blog  is 187 804, the quantity of its readers – 21 250. For now it’s the most popular blog in Runet.

Pop

Unlike drugoi the second popular blogger (according to Yandex.Blogs rating) is the professional photographer of the1st channel on Russian TV, official photographer of Eurovision 2008 – Alex Jdanov. Before blogging he was interested in chats, then by somebody’s advice started his blog on Liveinternet.ru (popular bloghosting platform among young people), was surprised popularity of some celebrities’ blogs and decided to make his own popularity on publishing results of his every day work (photo and video of celebrities) in his new blog. A year later he has earned by means of this blog on flat in Saint-Petersburg. And now alexjdanov is engaged in advertising for those who wants to be known in web, his blog authority is 140 111, the quantity of his readers is 11 417. The most part of his audience is young people under 18 years old.

Nick

dolboeb is the most authoritative blogger with the most disgusting nick in Runet. His authority is 82 023, the quantity of his readers – 11 656. His real name is Anton Nossik. He’s one of Runet founders, very famous and authoritative internet specialist has started and conducted many interesting and profitable online projects as Gazeta.ru, Newsru.Com and others. Once he was asked about the reason of choosing such a nick for his blog, where he observed curious events of Runet, he said that when you were a big boss (like CEO of Rambler that Anton was in 2001-2004), media liked to quote you and even your personal blog was under a sight of mass-media, so if you wrote under dolboeb you wouldn’t be mentioned on their pages. For now he is a head of blog department in SUP company, that acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart in 2006. On our round table he was asked - ”why are you blogging?”, and his answer was – “I don’t know!”

Woman

The most well-known woman-blogger in Runet is radulova. Her name is Natalya, her nick is her surname. As she says about herself in her blog – she is just a journalist. Her main subject is the relationship between man and woman. She is a great observer and a magnificent story-teller. In her posts she can be very rough in the statements, but thus very exact in definitions. Her blog authority is 57 360, the quantity of her readers is 6 402. It’s very interesting, but for those who don’t like or even hate radulova there is a community ne_radulova and an opposite blog – anti_radulova where any can express his feelings, but for now there is a little wishing.

Writer

doctor_livsy – the logbook of Doctor Livsy has authority – 54 488 and 19 296 the quantity of readers. The real name of blogger is Sergey Lukyanenko. He is a famous Russian fantast – Emperor of Illusions in Live Journal, the author of Night-Day’s patrols under which books the very popular films have been released. In his blog Sergey shares his thoughts, ideas, views and observations with his fans and also publishes his new scripts for discussion. Thus by means of this blog he can receive the real reaction to his new novel or film.

So this is the most interesting bloggers on my opinion from top 10 Yandex rating.

Netmind presentation. Anna Rokina is telling about the importance of monitoring and researches in blogosphere:

Konstantin Maksimuk from Beeline (one of the popular national mobile brand) presenting the case of Beeline work in russian blogosphere:

Rick Murray is inviting russian audience to the Future but warning against inefficient ways of blogging:

Rick Murray presents Rexona case (this PR-campaign succeeded in US, but failed in Russia because of different approaches!)

Anton Nossik, a popular blogger and the head of blogs department in SUP (LiveJounal in Russia), says that russian online market can be a little behind from US, but the benefit is the learning of western mistakes in digital practice.

More pictures from this press-event are available on Flickr