Russian Holidays - RuNet Birthday (National Domain .RU Day)

In 1994, on April 7, the national domain of the Russian Federation .ru was registered. Previously, Russian-language resources were placed only in general international domains (.com - commercial sites, .org - non-profit organizations, etc.), and in the Soviet .su domain (SovietUnion), which has existed since 1990 and today. On that day, the first website www.ru and other domain names in the new zone were registered. The slang word "Runet", made up of the domain designations ".ru" and ".net", appeared in 1997. Despite the fact that it has already been included in spelling and other dictionaries, there is still no precise definition of it. In some cases, Runet refers only to sites in the .ru and .рф domain zones. Yandex is also adding domain zones .su, .by, .am, .az, .kz, .ge, .kg, .md, .ua, .uz. The broadest interpretation is given by the "Internet-Russian Phrasebook", according to which Runet is all Russian-language resources on the Network, regardless of the domain zone and the physical location of the servers. Indeed, only such a definition allows us to classify such popular Russian-language portals as VKontakte (vk.com), Russian Wikipedia (ru.wikipedia.org) and others as Runet. By analogy, some other national segments of the Network began to be called: Tatnet (Tatar), Bynet (Belarusian), Uanet (Ukrainian), Kaznet (Kazakh), etc. 1994 - the first Internet library was founded - Moshkov Library. 1995 - the first online web design studio - A. Lebedeva. 1995 - the first entertainment portal - Anekdote.ru. 1996 - the first Russian search engine Rambler. 1997 - the international guild of Runet workers EZHE was founded. 1997 - Yandex was founded. 1998 - the first money transfer in the Webmoney system. 2001 - the start of Russian Wikipedia. 2002 - the start of the federal program "Electronic Russia". 2009 - the first domain in the world appeared in the Cyrillic alphabet .рф. 2010 - the Government Services Portal of the Russian Federation is developing. 2010 - the 3 millionth domain .ru was registered. 2012 - the start of the work of the “Russian Public Initiative”. In 2013, the volume of e-commerce in Russia amounted to 1.6% of GDP. On the 10th anniversary of the registration of the .ru domain, in 2004, an annual award was established for a significant contribution to the development of the Russian part of the Network - the Runet Prize. It is awarded in the nominations "Technology and Innovation", "State and Society" and others - a total of 6 main nominations, as well as 3 special and 3 nominations of popular vote. The Prize is financially supported by Rospechat. The nationwide Prize is awarded to both organizations - government, commercial, public - and individual figures. Today, the share of Russian-language sites on the Internet is about 7%, while Russian is the second most popular language after English. Most international sites have Russian-language versions.