News from Social networks:

- My.mail.ru welcomed in October the 25-th million user.
- Odnoklassniki.ru (22 mln users) at the end of October has started to take $1 for registration on its socialnet. To pay for registration new users can via SMS. Without payment new account works in the limited mode: so it’s impossible to look through profiles and to chat via instant messager.
- The social network Vkontakte.ru (20 mln users) has started project Userapi.com which can be used at creation of social networks.

New social projects:

- Socialzm.net – new social network where experts of social media tell about trends and Runet’s experience.
- Dengi 2.0 – new social media project of publishing house Kommersant. The main idea is to engage bloggers – experts in economics and other spheres – in mutual content development for the first 2009 issue of Kommersant’s magazine Dengi 2.0 (eng. Money) together with journalists.
- And a very actual event – Crisis-2008.ru – the new project completely devoted to crisis in Russian economics.

As I mentioned before it’s our special trend – in Russia, influential bloggers use Live Journal, which is viewed in the US as platform for teenagers.

So, for composing this rating Vedomosti.ru used data from four popular bloghosting platforms of Runet – LiveJournal, Blogs.Mail.Ru, Liveinternet, MoiKrug (Yandex) – and here is the picture where you can see where, according to research, Russian bloggers talk about politics and business:

Top10 (as we can predict – only LJ-users)

1. ksonin
2. dolboeb
3. onexim-group
4. lipkovich
5. md-prokhorov
6. another-kashin
7. navalny
8. m-gaidar
9. galerist
10. v-milov

All ratings data (in this research Vedomosti.ru analyzed more than 2 thousand blogs, which quoted the materials of this newspaper).