Vasiliy Utkin named best corporate blogger

The top prize of the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards 2006 (Best of the Blogs) went to the US-based blog Sunlight Foundation. The best Russian-language blog award went to the community Magazeta: all about China. Vasiliy Utkin's soccer blog was named Best Corporate Blog. The two other Russian entrants were the community Old Russian Wood Architecture and the Journal of Vera Vasilyeva. The latter was nominated for a Reporters Without Borders prize but placed second, with first place shared by two blogs from Iran. Russia was represented in the BOBs-2006 jury by the noted opposition figure Marina Litvinovich, who was very disappointed by the fact that "we have been outdone by Iran."