Business Watch
On April 2, 2013 president of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia Aleksander Shumsky spoke at the international conference for professionals in the sphere of digital communications HUBFORUM 2013 “Strategy for promoting luxury brands via Internet” that was held in the framework of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia business-program.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law making the use of obscene language by media outlets punishable by fines, the Kremlin said on Monday.
Twitter starts cooperating with the Russian authorities to remove certain content related to child pornography, suicide and drugs from its website, and it has already blocked content in five different cases.
The State Duma has adopted a bill in the third and final reading on fining media outlets for using strong language.
Naspers Ltd. , Africa’s largest media group, will buy a 19 percent stake in Russia’s largest online classifieds site Avito.ru and invest $50 million to fund the company’s expansion.
Russia's most popular search engine, Yandex, will offer 7.4 percent of its stock in a secondary public offering (SPO) on Tuesday to be followed by a buy-back program, the company said on Tuesday.