A favor of my Russian-speaking LJ friends...

[alexpgp]

I'd like to ask a favor of Ljers on my friends list whose native language is Russian:

Dorogie druzya, ya vas proshu ostavit' kommentarii o tekh saitakh na Runete (ot 3 do 6) kotorye vy shchitaete camye vazhnye c tochki zrenie informatsii, ssilki, i razvlechenii.

Dear friends, please leave your comments about which sites on the Runet (between 3 and 6) you consider to be most important information, reference, and entertainment sites.

Also, a question: I know there are a lot of Russian-speaking participants on LJ, which is considered in some circles a "blogging" site. Are there Russian blogs out there that are as well-known in Russia as, say, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and Andrew Sullivan are in the U.S.?

Zaraniye spasibo.

Cheers...

Comments

[mkay422.livejournal.com]

This can be a long list and discussion, but let's at least plant a seed here ;)

News sites vary by political affiliation and leaning.
All major newspapers have one (Izvestiya.ru, Kommersant.ru, Ogonyok - http://www.ogoniok.com/win/index.shtml,
Komsomolskaya Pravda - kp.ru, Nezavisimaya Gazeta - ng.ru, Moskovskii Komsomolets - mk.ru, ets. etc.)

Internet-bassed news - lenta.ru (also has syndicated feed in LJ)
RBC daily - rbc.ru,
Utro - utro.ru (kind of tabloid)

A very important one - anecdotes ;) (and VERY popular) - anekdot.ru

Russian internet search - yandex.ru; also has listings of major sites per topic\subj.

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Russian population of LJ differs enormously from the US. In Russia LJ is considered the MAJOR blogging portal (there are some emerging clones - liveinternet.ru, for example, but they are a far cry from LJ). During the times of the "invite" codes, Russian LJ community has been developing as something "elitist", with the flavour of "belonging" (since paying even 5 bucks is still difficult - e.g. considering that paypal does not accept russian-originated credit cards).

There is a number of Russian LJ users who are well known figures - e.g. political commentators and analysts, at least a couple of major TV hosts, well-known (in Russia) reporters, PR people, businessmen, writers\novellists etc. This can be quite a list; moreover formally people ususally do not disclose their names, but everybody knows anyway. There are also people who are VERY polpular LJ users. Finally there is quite a community of Russian users here in the US (see the list of people in sfbayarea_ru, for instance). If you are interested in further digging here let me know - I can provide some LJ names.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Pardon me for not responding sooner.

Yes, I would be interested in further digging. Perhaps we can move this to e-mail? My address is my LJ user name AT imap.cc.

Cheers...

[grosh.livejournal.com]

info-sites:
www.lenta.ru
www.mn.ru

searching-sites:
www.ya.ru
www.google.ru

entertainment' sites:
www.kontramarka.ru
www.parter.ru