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[[File:Russophone.png|thumb|right|400px|[[Russophone]]s worldwide, who often use the Internet in Russian language]]<br />
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'''Internet in Russian''' (also '''Russian Internet''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|русский Интернет}}), known as '''[[Runet]]'''<ref>[http://slovari.yandex.ru/рунет/Интернет/Рунет/ 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">[http://www.livejournal.ru/themes/id/11797 LiveJournal: Discover global communities of friends who share your unique passions and interests]. Livejournal.ru.</ref>) but mostly it is based in Russia.<br />
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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">[http://company.yandex.ru/researches/reports/ya_content_09.xml Контент Рунета]. Company.yandex.ru.</ref><br />
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Domains with a high proportion of the Russian language include [[.su]], [[.ru]], [[.рф]], [[.ua]], [[.by]], [[.kz]].<br />
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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">[http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/russian_is_now_the_second_most_used_language_on_the_web Russian is now the second most used language on the web]. W3techs.com.</ref><br />
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==Statistics==<br />
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>[http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/all Usage Statistics of Content Languages for Websites, April 2012]. W3techs.com.</ref><br />
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In September 2011, Russia surpassed Germany as the biggest Internet market in Europe, with 50.8 million users.<ref name="2a">[http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/11/14/russian-internet-biggest-in-europe-will-earnings-follow/#axzz2aoLvwwxa Russian internet biggest in Europe; will earnings follow? | beyondbrics]. Blogs.ft.com (14 November 2011).</ref><br />
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In March 2013, it was announced that Russian is the second most used language on the web.<ref name="w3techs1"/><br />
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==Researches==<br />
[[Harvard University]]'s [[Berkman Center]] conducts regular researches of Russian language web distinguished by [[Cyrillic script in Unicode|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.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Russophone]]<br />
* [[:Category:Russian-language websites|Russian-language websites]]<br />
* [[:Category:Russian Internet slang|Russian Internet slang]]<br />
* [[:Category:Russian-language computing|Russian-language computing]]<br />
* [[Languages used on the Internet]]<br />
* [[English on the Internet]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/russian_is_now_the_second_most_used_language_on_the_web Russian is now the second most used language on the web]<br />
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[[Category:Internet in Belarus]]<br />
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