Gmail.ru - not owned by Google

According to the site:

"Administration of "Gmail.ru" congratulates all the users with registering the trade mark of our project. We also would like to inform you that from October 27, 2006 we will start explore new servers with higher possibilities, which will give us possibility to serve up to 10 000 000 users of Gmail.ru."

Poor Google, they had the awkward decision to make, gmail (catchy, shorter, less hubris) or googlemail (longer, more hubris). Taking the shorter name meant they would have problems with existng services with this name. If they thought they could grab these, they were proven wrong, as evidenced in the UK and now Russia...