According to Russia’s Daily Online, it will provide news content alongside with Reuters and AP for the Russian MSN. Russian MSN, with an aim to aggregate the great content and stuff on the Web for the Russian, is trying to draw more visitors to the MSN home page by expanded into Russia. With 50 million monthly U.S. visitors as revealed by comScore last month, the Russian market seem to be a major challenge for MSN in this year. And over time, MSN Russian would offered branded content, ranging from sport and entertainment to news and finance.

Prior to this launch, the msn.ru domain was a property of Roman Elkhadjiev, who sold it to Microsoft for approx. US1 million on April 2007, as reported by CNews Russia.