T-Platforms has launched SKIF Cyberia supercomputer at Tomsk State University. The system reaches 12 bln Tflops while Linpack's standard test shows 7,8 Tflops result. The project was co-managed by Microsoft, Intel and Programm Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. SKIF Cyberia has been developed since Nov,2 2006 and cost about 51 mln rubles (~USD 2 mln) of government investment through the national project "Education".

The number of .RU domain names reached 718,000 in 2006 and the market scores 375 mln rubles (abt USD 14,5 mln) against 220 mln rubles in 2005, according to the major registrator Ru-Center. The segment of domain resale arises, too: cybersquatters got 8% market share in 2006. Last year growth is the highest result that .RU has ever shown. That's because of natural growth of Internet spread in Russia, experts say. According to ROMIR Monitoring Russian web population reached 24 mln at the end of 2006.

Victory S.A. interactive ad agency is now to promote its old clients Nokia and SABmiller with banners in LiveJournal blogs. Victory S.A. acquired by Russian LJ-operator SUP few months ago. The first SUP's advertisers are to pay $12-14 per thousand views which is 5-6 times more expensive than those who campaign with another popular Russian blog service LI.ru. According to Nokia's PR manager in CIS Victoria Eryomina the company is used to target young consumers through interactive projects and that's why LiveJournal was chosen to promote the new phone model. LI.ru ad seller IMHO VI approach is that bloggers' audience is too diverse to sell it for standard web media prices. It sells banners targeted with demographic parameters for $1,5-3 per 1,000 views in LI.ru.

Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko came out appealing to school workers to stop national education disgrace. Considering Aleksandr Ponosov's lawsuit he recommended to check out every computer at Russian educational institutions to install legal software instead of one that is being used. Meanwhile, school teachers say legal software prices are too high to afford so they doubt any possibility to buy it for most Russian schools. Making it even worse, the State Duma member Mikhail Zapolev claimed they use illegal software on Duma's computers, too.

Russian blog hosting LiveInternet.ru (Li.ru) will offer behavioral targeting to its advertisers next month. At the moment, demographically targeted ads on LI.ru are available only. LI.ru owner German Klimenko says the new technology is now being tested. Supposedly his company will follow LiveJournal's Russian operator Sup's pricing which is selling banner ads for $12-14 per 1,000 views, while LI.ru is now offering the same for $1,5-3.