Russia: Social Networking Via a “Prison” Game, Female Users’ Photos · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Katya Trubilova of Social Media Lessons From Russia and the UK writes this, among other things, about Russia's largest social network VKontakte: “The most popular app on Vkontakte is a game called Тюряга (Prison) with 6 134 947 installations. The goal of the game is to make tattoos to become a respectful criminal. Russian criminal tattoos have a complex system of symbols and this application educates widely on this topic.” English Russia posts a selection of “typical photos [of females] from Russian social networks.”