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Russian Blogosphere Growing by 100 Blogs Every Hour

 

Paul Goble

Vienna, September 29, 2006 – The Russian-language blogosphere, currently expanding at the rate of 100 new blogs every hour of every day, now
includes more than 1.15 million blogs on which their creators and
visitors have posted more than 80 million messages, according to a new
study of the Russian Internet.

Moreover, according to the Yandex.ru study, 46 percent of these blogs
have remained active over the last quarter, with more than 106,000 new
postings every day, a small but rapidly growing fraction of this new
communications medium. (A summary of the study is available at
[http://net.compulenta.ru/2877886/].
The full 10-page report can be found at
[http://company.yandex.ru/articles/yandex_on_blosophere_autumn_2006.pdf].

The study provides a large quantity of data about a variety of issues.
Among its key findings are the following:

“The average Russian blogger is a 21-year-old woman who lives in
Moscow and studies at a higher educational institution. Twenty-four
other bloggers regularly read her posts,” Yandex reported.

Overwhelmingly, most Russian bloggers live in the Russian Federation,
but significant numbers live in Ukraine, the United States, Israel,
Belarus, and Estonia. And almost four out of five Russian bloggers live
in Moscow or St. Petersburg, and 95 percent of them live in just 12
cities.

To judge by the number of posts, the most important events for Russian
bloggers over the summer were the war in Lebanon, the international
soccer finals, and the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The
explosion in the Cherkizov market was in 7th place and President
Vladimir Putin’s Internet press conference in 10th, just ahead of the
number of postings on Madonna’s concert in the Russian capital.

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