Electronic Vedomosti becomes free of charge

From 3 November the newspaper Vedomosti will become accessible for all visitors to the website Vedomosti.ru, without compulsory registration or other restrictions. The latest issue, the paper's archive for the previous month and all supplements will all become free of charge. The electronic version of Vedomosti has been around since 1999, but to date there has been no free access to its texts. The number of visitors to the website in October amounted to 992,000 people.