An investigation of the part of the World Wide Web (Web) devoted to business purposes in Russia was conducted. The goal was to estimate usability of this Web for the Western user by focusing on the following dimensions: type of businesses for which Web sites are used, language used on sites, communication capability of sites, ordering capability of sites, and response rime of site servers. Findings suggest that the Russian Web is more usable in terms of language used and communication capability than ordering capability and response time. Nevertheless, the emergence and the state of the Russian Web signal significant telecommunication and market developments is Russia.