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Hey Sergey, Yandex Kicks Google Butt In Russia

China and India get all the attention from the major Internet players when it comes to growing Internet economies, but search advertising in Russia has a couple of local players dominating the field.

Google (Finally) Gets To Map Russia

Presidents Bush and Putin may not be on the best of terms, but the Russian government is embracing (or at least nodding to) Google; a changed law has allowed the American search engine giant to release a Russia-specific mapping service.

Google Answers Resurfaces

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a Russian mystic born in the 1800s, supposedly survived being poisoned, shot, and beaten (though a subsequent drowning did him in).  Now Google Answers is also proving hard to kill, and it has resurfaced in the same part of the world.

Russian Schools Consider Switch to Linux

Earlier this week, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent forth a public plea to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates concerning the prosecution of a Russian man charged with installing pirated copies of Windows on his classroom's computers. Microsoft has declined to drop the charges against the teacher, and the move has the county's educational system reconsidering its choice of operating systems. Consequently, it looks like Windows is will lose out to Linux in another market.

Google Losing Race For Russian Crown

Google may be king, but it's definitely not czar. The dominant U.S. search engine is only the eighth biggest "Internet brand" in Russia, and it's losing the competition by a very large margin.

MSN Adds More Instant Answers

MSN Search's Weblog announces the addition of 1 million new facts you can now get "Instant Answers" to.

MSN Search Adds 1 Million Instant Answers

The MSN Search blog reports that they've added about a million new instant answers, those fact boxes that appear atop search results, giving you quick access to good facts about whatever you're searching for.

Blogging Came from Russia with Love?

MosNews has discovered that a 19th Century Russian prince predicted that one day we'd all be blogging.

Google To Set Up Shop in Russia?

The Russian media has reported that Google may be interested in setting up operations at a new IT park in St. Petersberg.

Menatep Files Suit Against Russia

Yukos owner, Menatep has filed a $28.3 billion suit against the Russian government for damages after it seized and sold Yukos.