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EnglishRussia is a popular photoblog focusing on unusual aspects of Russian or former-Soviet culture. Technorati rated it the 155th most popular website out of 94 million on its search engine.[1] It was created by a Russian software technician and is currently more popular in America than in Russia.[2]

The website seems to have some troubles. The Facebook page was hacked[3], and between the 13/06/2019 and 14/06/2019, the design of the wesbite change, becoming more "clean", without logo.[4] [5] The privacy policy is now written in portuguese[6] and the ads are ruled by a brasilian company[7]. With this changes, many old pages lost their pictures and some articles are not readable anymore[8]. The email adress don't answer. (but the link with the portuguese society goes back earlier, the old version was already linked to the ad company) Also, the official Twitter account and Facebook no longer exist.

It has been mentioned by many media sources, newspapers or websites such as The St. Petersburg Times,[9] Softpedia,[10] and the Daily Telegraph.[11][12][13]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kevin O’Flynn (2007-08-23). "Blog reveals wacky side of Russian life". UPI NewsTrack. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  2. ^ Kevin O’Flynn (2007-08-26). "A Web site shows quirky side of Russia". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  3. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190517183910/https://englishrussia.com/2018/10/25/attention-english-russia-facebook-page-has-been-stolen/
  4. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190613175153/http://englishrussia.com/
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190614140152/https://englishrussia.com/
  6. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20191116181156/https://englishrussia.com/privacy-policy/
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190603170209/http://englishrussia.com/about
  8. ^ https://englishrussia.com/2018/11/29/soviet-winter-new-year-postcards-a-delightful-thing-to-see/2/
  9. ^ Kevin O’Flynn (2007-08-24). "Second life". The St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  10. ^ Marius Oiaga (2007-06-13). "What's the Russian Word for Windows Piracy?". Softpedia. Retrieved 2009-11-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Matthew Moore (2008-09-05). "Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth". Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  12. ^ Adrian Blomfield (2007-09-16). "From Russia with fights and fat policemen". Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  13. ^ "Jugaad from Russia". Business Standard (New Delhi). 2009-04-17. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-11-05.