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EnglishRussia is a popular photoblog focusing on unusual aspects of Russian or former-Soviet culture. In 2007 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 publication has experienced issues throughout its history. The Facebook page was hacked, [3] and between June 13, 2009 and June 14, 2009, the design of the website changed, becoming more "clean", without logo. [4] [5] The privacy policy was written in Portuguese [6] and the ads were controlled by a Brazilian company. [7] With these changes, many old pages lost their pictures and some articles were not readable anymore. [8] The email address does not answer. The official Twitter account and Facebook no longer exist. As of 2023 the site appears defunct with its last content [9] posted on May 1, 2022
It has been mentioned by many media sources, newspapers or websites such as The St. Petersburg Times , [10] Softpedia, [11] and The Daily Telegraph . [12] [13] [14]
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