A court in annexed Crimea has fined a local woman 100,000 rubles ($1,280) for allegedly spreading “LGBT propaganda” after she ...

MOSCOW—Pavel Durov, founder of VKontakte, Russia's largest social network, has been removed as chief executive after it emerged the resignation letter he tendered last month and later withdrew ...

The founder of VKontakte and a private-equity fund that owns a stake in the website have filed legal actions against each other as part of a continuing feud over control of the company.

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VK , owner of Russian social network VKontakte, reported a second-quarter net loss of 3.4 billion roubles ($56 million) on Thursday, partly due to a 14 billion rouble ($231 million) foreign ...

Thousands of posts on VKontakte, a Russian Facebook-like platform, have turned against Donald Trump, calling him a clown and accusing him of dementia. It represents a significant shift from ...

Since the Kremlin began throttling YouTube playback speeds in Russia this summer, two homegrown platforms have been vying to take its place: Rutube and VKontakte’s VK Video. While Rutube swiftly ...

A youth project with lots of free content, launched in 2006, VKontakte soon conquered the Russian-speaking social network market. Despite the management change and a wave of scandals, today it is ...

VKontakte, the so-called "Russian Facebook," formerly notorious for fostering user-generated illegitimate music content, reported 1.5 million of subscribers to its legitimate music streaming ...

"We see the judgment as a certain victory for us," Boris Dobrodeyev, VKontakte CEO, tells Billboard in recent visit to the Moscow office of parent company Mail.ru Group.

The outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014 gave an impetus for Russian information weapons. When the Kremlin realized it was impossible to seize Ukraine by military means, they opted for ...

A man with a same name as the younger Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has an account on Russia’s most popular social network, vKontakte. Or at least, “Djohar Tsarnaev” does. The ...