On 27 September in Blagoveschensk in the Amur Region two girls, aged 14 and 16, jumped from a 12th-floor balcony. The investigation is looking at all options including the possibility that the girls could have been members of a sect. The press is dotted with an even greater number of suggestions. Some sources quote statistics that place the blame with the geography: in the Priamuriye region there are 60 cases of suicide for every 100,000 of the population, a third higher than in Russia as a whole. Another publication accuses the popular rock band Agatha Christie and also quotes the words of anonymous psychologists that suicide could be linked with "an early start to a sex life". The news repeats the statement than "even that morning no one could predict the pending catastrophe". Meantime, though, the state of one of the suicides is well reflected in her weblog, which contains not a single positive record and where all entries are devoted to loneliness: "Is it worth living if you’ve already been as if dead two years?" The last entry from 20 September comes under the heading "Help?!"

Genon.ru, that owns an original Russian language questions-and-answers service has set up a blog, dedicated to the discussion of its project. The business model of the start-up is reminiscent of Google Answers. Users ask questions in natural language and the company pays the authors of answers money based on the number of times their responses are visited. As regards the income from the project itself, there is for now only one arrangement: "if you need a response in the quickest possible time, you can detail a price you are prepared to pay for a response". However, it is possible that ads will appear on the site. However, the site has not yet been enjoying success with visitors. It seems that the concept of the project is just too advanced for the .ru zone.

To enter the Yandex.Direct network of contextual advertising you now do not have to register a company or have a website with a monthly audience of over 100,000 visitors. New conditions make it possible for small websites to take part in the network (over 300 visitors a day). Owners of the Yandex.Direct partner sites receive half the profits from the showing of ads on their pages. Experts believe that the competition will struggle as Yandex expands. Google will find it harder to find a foothold in the contextual advertising niche on smaller Russian websites. What is more, a number of the partners of Begun, which started providing similar services over a year ago and which is for now still the largest Russian contextual network in terms of the numbers involved and volume of payment, may also move over to Yandex.

A portal has opened at Newsgrad.com that combines the functions of an RSS news aggregator and public rating in a format similar to that of Digg.com. However, the interface of the new aggregator has none of the RSS, "tags" or other ugly English technical terms of the Web 2.0 generation. Everything is put together using the principle of urban role-play where everyone is issued a "propiska" residence permit and walks through "streets" and "prospects". There is "Politics Street", "Economics Street", "Sport Street", "Bloggers Boulevard", "Mobile Alley" and "Cinema Alley". The project creators are not talking of their business models as yet, referring instead to "beta-testing".