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Zuckerberg meets with Russia's PM Medvedev

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Facebook's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev have a lot in common. They are both elite tech enthusiasts with large populations who they serve. The two met in Moscow Monday to discuss their mutual interest in tech innovation and Facebook's presence in the region.

Medvedev is hoping to create the equivalent of Silicon Valley in his country, and Zuckerberg would like to see Facebook compete better against the Russian language incumbent social network, VKontakte. Facebook has fewer than 10 million of its nearly 1 billion … Read more

Meet Russian President Medvedev, Internet geek

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev already has a LiveJournal.com page, a video blog on kremlin.ru, and a Twitter account is in the works.

But the full extent of Medvedev's unalloyed geekiness wasn't apparent until a question-and-answer session in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Putin was in town for the 47-nation nuclear summit.

During an appearance at the center-left Brookings Institution, the head of the Russian Federation suggested that he and President Obama should dispense with their legions of aides and chat on iPhones through text messaging instead.

"We don't e-mail each other (but) that would … Read more