Zuckerberg visits Moscow, has meeting with Medvedev and eats at McDonalds.
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The hoodie stayed back at the hotel when Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, met Russia’s Prime Minister and former president Dmitry Medvedev on Monday.
“Good conversation with Prime Minister Medvedev,” Mr. Zuckerman wrote on his Facebook wall beside a photo of the two, in suits and grinning, at the Russian leader’s residence outside Moscow.
Mr. Zuckerberg also visited Red Square – in his hoodie – ate at McDonald’s and helped judge a competition for Russian programmers in Moscow in his first visit to Russia, a country that is in important ways pivotal for Facebook.
One of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, is Russian. For Facebook, the tie is more oblique: The country is an important test case for the balancing act Facebook is undertaking as a new media company in countries that are important commercially but have traditionally heavily regulated their old media, if not censored it. And two of Facebook’s largest investors are Russian.
Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Medvedev talked about Facebook’s role in politics, though only jokingly in reference to its importance in the U.S. presidential campaign, according to Mr. Medvedev’s press office.
They also discussed copyright rules and high-tech business. Mr. Zuckerberg gave the Russian leader a T-shirt during the meeting, which lasted about 20 minutes.
Facebook, in Russia as elsewhere, plays a double role as a tool for posting silly party pictures and a tool for political organizing. It played an integral role in political dissent in Russia last winter, allowing street protests to coalesce when handing out fliers or posting notices on corkboards would not have worked.
Russia is also home to two large and early Facebook investors, Alisher Usmanov, a steel tycoon, and Yuri Milner, an expert on monetizing social-network traffic in emerging markets. The two partly cashed out in the initial public offering of Facebook stock earlier this year but still own billions of dollars’ worth of shares.
More Russians are online today than Germans, making Russia the largest Internet market in Europe. Russians also, strangely, have spent more freely relative to their income than Americans on virtual products, like special powers for online games, making their country a useful market for testing revenue streams other than advertising.
Earlier this month, in another step deeper into the Russian market, Facebook made a deal with one of Russia’s mobile-phone operators, Beeline, to provide a free application to subscribers.
The Russian government, led by Mr. Medvedev, a technology lover, has embraced the Internet for its commercial potential even as it has been subtly trying to rein in the politics.
Such features as most-viewed lists of blogs, for example, are frowned on at Russian-run sites beholden to the Kremlin, lest a critical text go viral based on user approval.
In its prospectus for the initial public offering, Facebook had cautioned of the business risk of being banned from foreign markets, as it has been in China by the “Great Firewall.”
For now, Russia’s Internet is still mostly unfettered.
In that spirit, pictures of the Facebook founder’s dog, Beast, which he posts on his Facebook page, became the topic of conversation in an episode Mr. Zuckerberg filmed for a Russian late-night comedy show Monday.
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Now if he had curry instead, things would be different.
zuckerberg's eyes always creep me out in any photo of him
he is dead inside, you can tell
Medvedev's teeth jesus
I read the title as Zoidberg.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37882424]I read the title as Zoidberg.[/QUOTE]
He might aswell be Zoidberg inside, and facebook is his creation to finally be loved.
Title should be, "Zoidberg visits Moscow, has meeting with Medvedev and eats [I]a[/I] McDonalds."
:foxnews: ZUCKERBERG CONFIRMED AS COMMIE HIPPIE LIBERAL MORE AT 11 :foxnews:
[QUOTE=avon43;37883063]:foxnews: ZUCKERBERG CONFIRMED AS COMMIE HIPPIE LIBERAL MORE AT 11 :foxnews:[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure I understand the joke here
[QUOTE=Marbalo;37883103]Im confused by this article, Im pretty sure the vast majority of Russians don't use Facebook, but rather Vkontakte - as do most post-Soviet countries.[/QUOTE]
Maybe he wants to change that.
[quote]They also discussed copyright rules and high-tech business. Mr. Zuckerberg gave the Russian leader a T-shirt during the meeting, which lasted about 20 minutes.[/quote]
Medvedev is following Putin's lead, bursts out of the shirt within 20 minutes.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;37882398]zuckerberg's eyes always creep me out in any photo of him
he is dead inside, you can tell[/QUOTE]
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no wonder. he is a reptilian
Is he ginger or not? I can't tell
[QUOTE=Andokool12;37883431]Is he ginger or not? I can't tell[/QUOTE]
yes
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no wonder. he is a reptilian[/QUOTE]
These are the soulless eyes of someone so intensely boring and empty that they don't see a problem with sharing every iota of your personal life on the internet and can't fathom why others would either.
He is so rich.
Don't russians generally use [url]http://vk.com/[/url] instead of facebook?
[QUOTE=BorisJ;37885272]Don't russians generally use [url]http://vk.com/[/url] instead of facebook?[/QUOTE]
as a VK user I can confirm this... haha
they also use:
[url]http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/[/url]
tbh vk has proclaimed it to be non-political, so this could be a political move to have Facebook replace VK, with hopefully a more censor-friendly format?
[QUOTE=avon43;37883063]:foxnews: ZUCKERBERG CONFIRMED AS COMMIE HIPPIE LIBERAL MORE AT 11 :foxnews:[/QUOTE]
I wish for one day that some man holding relatively important positiong out there, goes out his way to declare himself as communist. Start converting and teaching people to communism. Give the Fox News the run for it's money for once. I'd just [B]love[/B] to see the fox reporters absolutely fucking foaming from their mouths as they unload buzzwords on automatic fire while making it look like the USA is about to get invaded 'n' shit.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;37885700]I wish for one day that some man holding relatively important positiong out there, goes out his way to declare himself as communist. Start converting and teaching people to communism. Give the Fox News the run for it's money for once. I'd just [B]love[/B] to see the fox reporters absolutely fucking foaming from their mouths as they unload buzzwords on automatic fire while making it look like the USA is about to get invaded 'n' shit.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-died-aged-95[/url]
close enough?
massively famous historian
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