Russian blogs have hosting, girls and hotdogs

Over 60% of Russian blogs now reside in domestic-based blog-hostings, informs Yandex research. As at September 2006, there are over 1,150,000 blogs in Russian. The Big Four of popular blog hostings are Livejournal.com, Liveinternet.ru, Blogs.mail.ru, and Diary.ru. 60% of Russian bloggers are women (compared to only 46% in the USA). The average age of the Russian blogger is 21 and there are more students than graduates. Almost 80% of bloggers live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Corporate blogs on the .ru zone are only just taking off: from the non-Internet companies in the research, corporate blogs were only noted in the Stardogs fastfood company.