Internet in Russian
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Internet in Russian (also Russian Internet (Template:Lang-ru), known as Runet<ref>Интернетско-русский разговорник</ref>) is a part of the Internet that uses the Russian language. Geographically, it reaches all continents, including Antarctica (Russian scientists on Bellingshausen Station,<ref name="1a">LiveJournal: Discover global communities of friends who share your unique passions and interests. Livejournal.ru.</ref>) but mostly it is based in Russia.
According to reports conducted by Yandex, Russian is the primary language of 91% of Russian websites (in Yandex's list). In the autumn of 2009, Runet contained about 15 million sites (estimated to be about 6.5% of the entire Internet).<ref name="yandex1">Контент Рунета. Company.yandex.ru.</ref>
Domains with a high proportion of the Russian language include .su, .ru, .рф, .ua, .by, .kz.
Russian is used on 89.8% of .ru sites and on 88.7% of the former Soviet Union domain, .su. Russian is the most used language of websites of several countries that were part of the former Soviet Union: 79.0% in Ukraine, 86.9% in Belarus, 84.0% in Kazakhstan, 79.6% in Uzbekistan, 75.9% in Kyrgyzstan, and 81.8% in Tajikistan.<ref name="w3techs1">Russian is now the second most used language on the web. W3techs.com.</ref>
Statistics
The 59.7 million Russian-speaking Internet users, represent 3% of global Internet users. Russia is ranked 9th in the world<ref name="1a" /> for number of users and 4th (with 4.8%) for number of Russian-language content.<ref>Usage Statistics of Content Languages for Websites, April 2012. W3techs.com.</ref>
In September 2011, Russia surpassed Germany as the biggest Internet market in Europe, with 50.8 million users.<ref name="2a">Russian internet biggest in Europe; will earnings follow? | beyondbrics. Blogs.ft.com (14 November 2011).</ref>
In March 2013, it was announced that Russian is the second most used language on the web.<ref name="w3techs1"/>
Researches
Harvard University's Berkman Center conducts regular researches of Russian language web distinguished by Cyrillic encoding.<ref>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/russia</ref> In particular, there are papers named "Mapping Russian Twitter",<ref>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2012/mapping_russian_twitter</ref> "Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization"<ref>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Public_Discourse_Russian_Blogosphere</ref> and "RuNet Echo".<ref>http://globalvoices.org/-/special/runet-echo/</ref> There are Russian internet-reviewing newspapers called TheRunet, Runetologia and others.
See also
- Russophone
- Russian-language websites
- Russian Internet slang
- Russian-language computing
- Languages used on the Internet
- English on the Internet
