Julia Trushina is a social media marketing consultant based in Russia who has worked with companies in Finland, Denmark, and Slovenia to implement around 70 social media projects over the past 5 years. She has a PhD in Marketing and has given presentations and trainings on using Russian social media for tourism marketing. The top social networks in Russia are VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and YouTube. Trushina recommends that tourism companies targeting Russian travelers create useful content like lists, share posts from travelers, and engage with questions on sites like LiveJournal to promote their destinations and services.