Tag Archives: russia

Here’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg outlining nine things the social network is going to do to prevent nasties invading its space: specifically some 3,000 Russia-originated anti-Clinton election ads it’s magnanimously agreed to share with the US Congress, which is investigating election ...

Here’s a job to tax even the most optimistic of agency bosses. Mega-sized Russian gas producer Gazprom (left) is looking for a UK agency, according to Campaign. Russia isn’t exactly flavour of the month with other countries in Europe at ...

It’s the Winter Olympics in Sochi, in Russia, next month (often a recipe for disaster – remember when it didn’t snow north of Vancouver?) and this year the Games look likely to be even more fraught, with opponents of the ...

A new-found friend from Germany sends me a print ad and a link to the the Giorgio Armani website which offers Gio’s diapers to rich Russians who, clearly, can’t thing of other ways of spending their money. Is this daft ...

For years now it’s seemed like a one way bet: expand in the BRICS (the emerging markets of China, Brazil, India and Russia); go further afield to the likes of Indonesia and Vietnam and even, gulp, invest in the Middle ...

Russia under president Vladimir Putin may be a dangerous place for Pussy Riot band members but big companies from across the spectrum are crossing their fingers and legs and heading for what’s rapidly becoming Europe’s biggest market. BP, whose boss ...

Why not? Apparently Mondelez (Kraft’s name for its new spun-off snacks company) sounds like the Russian word for oral sex. Which should trigger a few ideas from the fertile minds of creatives working on the notorious Cadbury’s Flake account. Kraft ...

It seems that we’re supposed to call Burma Myanmar these days – a nifty bit of rebranding for a country that was an international pariah a year or so ago. Anyway, where democracy (or some of it) leads WPP follows ...

Online’s share of the media market is going up in all markets, to 20 per cent and over in the US and UK for example. But search remains by far the biggest sector although there are important developments under way, ...