Shares of Internet company Mail.ru Group could rise as a result of the initial public offering planned by social-networking site Facebook. Shares of Internet company Mail.ru Group could rise as a result of the initial public offering planned by social-networking site Facebook, a VTB Capital report said. Mail.ru Group owns 2.38 percent of Facebook, which said in a filing to U...

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul took to Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday in an attempt to refute charges that he's promoting regime change in Russia. U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul took to Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday in an attempt to refute charges that he's promoting regime...

... outcome of a football match, either, but at least it was fun to watch — and the rules were clear. In Russian politics, as the old joke goes, the outcome is fixed in advance, but the rules are unpredictable. So, what changed? Everyone points to Facebook and its Russian analogue, Vkontakte. And they do matter. But the point is not just organizing a protest "meeting." Protests have been organized before — in 1917, for example. The exciting difference is in people's minds, not just...

... elections." Protesters said it was difficult to influence events in Russia from abroad, but they maintained the importance of taking to the streets, even in small numbers. The organizers of a dozen-person rally in Kansas City, Kansas, wrote on their Facebook page that by demonstrating in Middle America, they were emboldening protesters back home and reminding those responsible for alleged vote fraud during the Dec. 4 State Duma elections that "around the world, wherever they go, there are people...

... electronic activists appear to have heeded the call, as Dozhd television said its website started receiving three to four comments per hour beginning Monday night. Thousands of Syria-related comments have since appeared on Russian news websites and Facebook pages. Most comments are sharply critical of Russia's defense of President Bashar Assad. "Russia sold its humanity when it sold weapons to a criminal regime" user Abu Mujahid al-Hamwi wrote on President Dmitry Medvedev's Facebook page...

... Holdings rates Mail.ru Group as one of its "top" stock picks as the Russian Internet company takes advantage of rising demand for advertising in the nation's expanding economy. The largest Russian-language Internet company, which has a stake in Facebook, was rated HSBC's "top pick" in the country's media sector, while the London-based lender initiated an "underweight" recommendation for Yandex NV, operator of Russia's most popular search engine, according to an e-mailed research...

... Sunday that will attempt to create a complete circle of cars on the Garden Ring Road, organizers said. Participants' cars are supposed to be adorned with a white ribbon, sticker, or piece of paper, organizers said in an announcement of the event on Facebook. White has become a symbol of the protest movement after demonstrators wore white ribbons to the Dec. 10 protest on Bolotnaya Ploshchad. So far, 1,283 people have indicated on Facebook that they will attend the event Sunday. Organizers stated...

... Shchyogolev said, writing in business daily Vedomosti. The opinion that Russia seeks strict control over the Internet is inaccurate, the communications minister said. He added that the government is not considering the step of closing access to Twitter and Facebook in case of public demonstrations. Last month's demonstrations protesting the recent State Duma elections were organized in part with the use of Facebook. Last month popular social network Vkontakte received a request from the Federal Security...

... that this will require at least 34,000 people. "We stood on Bolotnaya and on Sakharova. We drove along the Garden Ring. We walked along Yakimanka. Our demands have not been fulfilled. Therefore, we will come again," organizers wrote on the Facebook page for the event, which they have called "Big White Circle." "This is not a protest. This is not a demonstration. On this day we will gather without signs, slogans and speeches," organizers wrote. Some commenters on the...

... oversee the country's defense industry, said he would open a probe into the mysterious appearance of automatic rifles. "Wow! I will hold a meeting with Izhmash about its firearms next week, and we will deal with this miracle," he wrote on his  Facebook page . It was not immediately clear whether the truck driver was aware that he was carrying firearms in the boxes that he had rushed to cash in on. "I imagine how scared the West is of our nuclear arms," Facebook user Oleg Zabara wrote...

... activists going last, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported. Thermoses and bottles won’t be allowed at the rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad, so organizers promised to supply hot drinks for protesters at the site, the Organizational Committee wrote on its Facebook page. Olga Romanova, who is in charge of the protest’s finances, wrote on Facebook that organizers had so far fallen short of raising the 3 million rubles ($99,600) necessary to supply sound and video equipment. As of Tuesday, organizers...

... Parkhomenko; and writer Dmitry Bykov. Rally organizers also include Nemtsov, opposition leader Vladimir Ryzhkov, Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov and Gennady Gudkov, a senior member of A Just Russia. By Sunday afternoon, about 21,000 people had signed up on Facebook to attend the demonstration. Several hundred people had signed an alternative Facebook page demanding that organizers not give in to City Hall and march according to the original plan. 171293 179742

... for the presidency. At least four rallies are planned. The largest will be the opposition march from the Oktyabrskaya metro station toward Bolotnaya Ploshchad, followed by a short rally. It will start at 1 p.m. Some 27,000 people have signed up on Facebook to take part in the protest under anti-Putin slogans to demand fair elections. It will be the third mass rally sanctioned by city authorities since accusations of widespread violations during December's State Duma elections sparked public outrage...

... including State Duma speaker Andrei Vorobyov, blogger and former Duma deputy Konstantin Rykov, and former Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov. President Dmitry Medvedev has touted his Internet proficiency and operates a Twitter account, a LiveJournal blog and a Facebook page. Prime Minister and United Russia head Vladimir Putin has said he does not use the Internet regularly because he is too busy. 179742

... scenes on board the faulty plane. "On the falling airplane everyone was screaming, the oxygen masks fell but weren't working, blood was flowing from many people's ears and noses, some have already lost consciousness," one passenger wrote on his Facebook page. "The captain is saying something about loss of pressure, the stewardesses are running and shouting, and you think, 'Why precisely today should I die?'" the passenger said. The Boeing 737 — owned by the small Rostov-on-Don-based...

... engine. A third person said a Vkontakte IPO could still happen this year, if the euro region’s debt crisis is resolved. Vkontakte did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Vkontakte is backed by Mail.ru Group, which also owns a stake in Facebook and is led by chairman Yury Milner. On its website, Vkontakte says it has more than 110 million registered users, about 70 percent of whom reside in Russia. In December, Vkontakte was caught in a conflict between Russian authorities and protesters...

... waved white pieces of paper out of car windows, while onlookers showed their support by holding up papers and waving. The police said 300 cars participated in the rally, RIA-Novosti reported . But more than 2,200 people signed up for the event on Facebook. The Yandex Probki road monitoring service indicated traffic jams around the Garden Ring on Sunday afternoon — an unusual occurence on the weekend day. 179742

... Internet Network Information Center. Mail.ru owns two Russian social networks, Moi Mir@Mail.ru and Odnoklassniki.ru, and owns a significant share of the social network Vkontakte — the country's largest social media platform and domestic answer to Facebook. 179738

... Commission still has to verify the authenticity of the signatures, but experts said they expected Prokhorov would have no trouble in securing a place on the ballot alongside Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 4 election. Prokhorov announced on his Facebook page on Friday that his assistants were busy preparing the signatures to submit to the elections commission by the Jan. 18 deadline. He has also already collected 400 million rubles ($12 million) in his campaign coffers — four times as...

... expired," meaning that it wouldn't be prolonged and his multiyear career at the channel is over. The statement said the contract expired this month but didn't elaborate on possible reasons for its decision not to renew it. Lobkov wrote on his Facebook page last week that his work phone number had been blocked. "I've been fired," he wrote. He said he had planned to push ahead with work on a series about science, but then learned that his contract would not be extended. Lobkov had...