charmian has a post on traffic numbers for LJ indicating more Russian traffic than US traffic and is asking for people's interpretations of what it means. There is also a post inspecting the Russian side of LJ:

It seems clear even to my underinformed eyes that SUP has poured quite a few resources into the Russian side of LJ: it must take a lot of staff time and development to have created and maintain LJ.ru, and to have made the statistics function.