The Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has informed the provider that hosts the website of Internet newspaper Kursiv that the activity of its editor-in-chief is undermining the principles of state. As a result the website was disconnected. The grounds for the FSB's displeasure lie in an article that criticizes the Russian president. The paper is well accustomed to prosecution; the previous provider cut its website off after the article "Putin, Russia's phallic symbol", where one of the President's theses, on the need to increase the birth rate in Russia, was depicted in a satirical vein. A criminal prosecution was brought against Kursiv's Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Rachmankov under Article 319 of the RF Criminal Code ("Insulting a representative of the authorities"). A linguistic analysis of the article was presented to the court, compiled from the point of view of an orthodox world view. According to this analysis the term "phallic symbol" is an undoubted insult.

Russian internet-holding Rambler got 23 million dollars from the sale of the Rambler-TV to Prof-Media. 0.43 percent of the Russian population and 1.9 of the population of St. Petersburg watched the Rambler-TV channel. The TV channel was purchased in the interests of the 2x2 channel that belongs to Prof-Media, which will broadcast in St. Petersburg on the Rambler frequency. Despite the decent growth rate, Rambler's TV division ran at a loss. The company could direct the resources it would release to the development of its Internet projects that are losing popularity; the share of Rambler's search traffic falls year on year and just recently the company lost one of its leading IT managers.

On 25 October a spam list was registered on the Internet with the subject "ATTENTION!!! President of Russia has dead". The link from the letter supposedly leads to BBC news, but when the link is accessed one of the latest Trojan horses starts to download, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.uj. The virus enables any harmful code to be launched on the infected computer. To date this method, using "loud headlines" has been practised mostly by intruders from the West. However, Kaspersky Lab experts believe that the report of the death of the Russian president in broken English tells us the authors of the virus are Russian.

Early in the week the Yandex search engine banned the indexing of the website of the famous Russian punk singer Alexander Laertsky (laertsky.com) with the wording "for search spam". The support service message states that the website "contains a large number of search queries with the sole aim of attracting traffic". It is assumed that the reason came to be the humorous section Time of the Month, where for 4 years now humorous queries are regularly published over which users find Laertsky over the Internet. A paradoxical situation is now faced as a result of the ban: when entering "Alexander Laertsky" in a Yandex search a whole host of commercial links appear to stores with Laertsky's recordings, but not the singer's official website. Fortunately, unlike the mercenary Yandex, Google and Rambler searches bring up his website first for this query.