The news is good, excellent for free information and for friendship, but unfortunately, a serious threat to these opportunities of VKontakte has been appeared just in time. The Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland has recently submitted a claim, according to which the Finnish courts could judge the prohibition to access to certain foreign internet forums. Russian "VKontakte" would be very obviously one of these forbidden sites, when we read more closely the argumentation of the Committee. This challenge is alarming, because the circles and contacts are very small in Finland, a small country.

Looks a lot like facebook but a lot less overwhelming considering the lack of ads, sponsored pages, etc. Would definitely give it a try