MOSCOW. Nov 9 (Interfax) - The number of Russian-language e-diaries, or blogs, has grown by 2.6 times in 12 months and reached 3.1 million by late September, Russian e-company Yandex study said.

"Equal to the situation in April, 2007, Russian language blogs make up a 3% share of the total number of blogs," the report said. It stressed that the share of Russians is higher compared to Internet users of other nations.

In this period, the average age of Russian bloggers has increased to 22. The most popular hosting is LiveInternet.ru, while Livejournal.ru accounts for the second place, Yandex said.

"In early autumn, after the summer vacations, the number of daily published notes increased on all hostings," the report said. Every day, about 7,000 blogs and 210,000 postings appear in the Russian Internet. On the whole, Russian blogs include 120 million postings.

Currently there are more blogs in Russian than in French, German or Portuguese, but fewer than in Spanish, Italian, Chinese, English or Japanese.

According to Technocrati.com, the world has 111.2 million blogs, which means that there is one blog for every 65 people on Earth.