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Internet users in Russia are increasingly onlineAccording to the director of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications Sergey Plugotarenko, Runet users spend an average of 100 minutes on the Internet. daily, making them among the most active Internet users in the world. Read more
Yandex .DNS – blocking dangerous websitesYandex developers have announced their new service that will allow blocking of dangerous websites for home networks and for individual personal computers. Read more
A new domain in the .РУС zone this yearThe international cooperation ICANN recently approved the application that was submitted for the creation of another national Cyrillic domain in the .РУС zone. The application has already passed the initial review, which is the most important stage for creating a new domain. The rest of the process is just a formal matter. Therefore, the .РУС domain may appear on the Internet already at the end of 2013. Read more
The Russian net is celebrating todayToday, Runet is celebrating its 19th anniversary. Currently, roughly half of Russians use the Internet, and we can find more than 4.47 million domains on the Internet that are registered in the .ru zone. Read more
Internet in Russia is now cheaper and fasterYandex has published statistics on the development of the Internet in Russia. According to data from the fall of 2012, 61.2 million Russian citizens over the age of 18 use the Internet monthly, which is more than 52% of the country's adult population. Of this number, almost 47 million people use the Internet daily, and in large cities practically everyone has an Internet connection at home. Read more
