Market Close-ups

1 The survey was based on a sample of 1008 interviews, conducted in the 12 largest cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, N. Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk (representing together about 19 percent of the Russian population). Only people ages 18 and higher who read books were interviewed. Nonreaders were not interviewed. “Readers” are considered to constitute about 55 percent of the Russian population over 18 years old.

2 See the survey carried out by the telecom equipment vendor Ericsson, polling 47,500 Internet users aged 16 to 60 years in 58 countries and regions in the first quarter of 2012, reported by various services, and the Wireless Federation on June 20 2012.