I usually use comScore to research search engine rankings, international web share, etc. As of data current to February 2008, Russia's biggest search engine Yandex (yandex.ru/) had 47.4% share of all web searches in Russia, with Google in second place with 31.2%.
The most popular ones are Google,Yahoo and Rediff. There are many others but these are the mostly used ones.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.