Text of report by heavyweight liberal Russian newspaper Kommersant on 23 June [Report by Anna Anufriyeva and Aleksandr Malakhov, headlined "Gazeta.ru has been added to SUP"] Alisher Usmanov and the owners of the SUP company, including Aleksandr Mamut, have swapped internet assets: the Kommersant publishing house [owned by Usmanov] has acquired up to 50 per cent of SUP, which owns the LiveJournal [blogging] service, while SUP itself has acquired 100 per cent of Gazeta.ru [one of Russia's most popular news websites].

Text of report by Russian Gazeta.ru news website, often critical of the government, on 11 February [Report by Svetlana Bocharova: "Legislative Plug"] The senators have devised a new measure for controlling the internet.

Text of report by Russian Gazeta.ru website on 1 August A major new player has emerged in the media market - Kommersant Kholding [Kommersant Holding Company]. The businessman Alisher Usmanov has amalgamated all his media assets in a single company.

Text of report by Aleksey Levchenko: "Russian Brainwashing Service" by Russian Gazeta.ru website on 17 April Very strict censorship has been introduced in one of the biggest news resources on the Russian radio airwaves.

Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax Moscow, 22 December: The Moskovskiye Novosti publishing house, owned by entrepreneur Arkadiy Gaydamak, has bought the newspaper Biznes from the publishing house Sekret Firmy [Russ: company secret]. The deal was clinched on Thursday [21 December].