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 ...

Throughout the one-hour video, he mostly avoided eye contact with the camera, instead directing his comments about the company’s future to Ochir Mandzhikov, VK’s vice president of communications.

VK plans to build a new data center in St. Petersburg, Russia, after also recently launching a facility in Moscow. Announced last week, the social media firm known as Russia's Facebook said a ...