Wall Street Journal: Pearson and Dow Jones & Co. said that they would sell their stakes in the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti. The move by the companies to divest their holdings was driven by the passage of a Russian law last year that limits the size of a stake a foreign company may hold in a Russian media company to no more than 20 percent. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, and the companies said the deal is expected to close before then.