Editing LiveJournal (section)

===Sale to SUP Media===
LiveJournal became extremely popular in Russia. The Russian translation of LiveJournal – ЖЖ (''ZheZhe'', which stands for Живой Журнал) – has become a [[genericized trademark]] for blogging in Russia, and the community boasts approximately 700,000 Russian LiveJournals, with 300,000 of them being active.<ref name="Russia Growls at LiveJournal Deal">{{cite web |author=Quinn Norton |url=https://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060 |title=Russia Growls at LiveJournal Deal |website=Wired.com |date=2006-11-08 |access-date=2010-03-29 |archive-date=2009-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827010216/http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2006/11/72060 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Six Apart licensed the LiveJournal brand to the Russian company [[SUP Media]] in August 2006.<ref name="Russia Growls at LiveJournal Deal"/> The deal was brokered with Fitzpatrick's assistance, but expatriated Russians have expressed concerns, citing links between the company and state security. Some have also worried that SUP's purchase of the community was less to make a profit and more to curtail or even dissolve the strong independent Russian blogging community, silencing dissent the government found inconvenient.<ref name="Russia Growls at LiveJournal Deal"/> These concerns started with the licensing deal, and have grown with the announcement of LiveJournal's sale to SUP Media in December 2007.<ref name="Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal">{{cite press release|title=Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal|url=http://www.sixapart.com/about/press/2007/12/acquisition-of.html|date=2007-12-03|access-date=2010-09-28|archive-date=2011-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511122434/http://www.sixapart.com/about/press/2007/12/acquisition-of.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP">{{cite web|title=Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP|author=Michael Arrington|author-link=Michael Arrington|url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/12/02/six-apart-sells-livejournal-to-sup/|work=[[TechCrunch]]|date=2007-02-12|access-date=2010-09-28|archive-date=2012-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818110315/http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/02/six-apart-sells-livejournal-to-sup/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a March 2008 interview, [[Anton Nosik]], an advisor to SUP Media, accused LiveJournal users of "trying to scare and blackmail us, threatening to destroy our business," and said that a large class of users are on LiveJournal only to harm it and its owners; "their goal is to criticize, destabilize and ruin our reputation." Nosik said his likely reaction to such pressure would be to retaliate against the users rather than bowing to their pressure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.izbrannoe.info/30184.html|title=Избранное: Желающим предоставят пещеру|publisher=Izbrannoe.info|access-date=2010-03-29|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207033623/http://www.izbrannoe.info/30184.html|archive-date=2010-02-07}}</ref>

Despite stating that LiveJournal would maintain the majority of its operations in the United States via the local subsidiary LiveJournal, Inc.,<ref name="heavy-newtos" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html |title=news: LiveJournal & SUP |publisher=News.livejournal.com |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222225728/http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html |archive-date=2009-12-22 }}</ref> in January 2009 SUP laid off some employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010601216.html |title=paidContent.org – LiveJournal Lays Off San Francisco Staff, Will Operate From Moscow |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=2009-01-06 |access-date=2010-03-29 |first=Robert |last=Andrews |archive-date=2017-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315231346/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010601216.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.livejournalinc.com/press_releases/20090106.php |title=Press Releases |publisher=LiveJournal Inc. |date=2009-01-06 |access-date=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609034327/http://livejournalinc.com/press_releases/20090106.php |archive-date=2010-06-09 }}</ref> In December 2016, LiveJournal moved to servers hosted in Russia;<ref name="heavy-newtos" /> in April 2017, it changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law and to be written (in their official form) only in Russian.