Internet in Russia

.ru is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Russia introduced on 7 April 1994. The Russian alphabet internationalized country code is .рф.

.su is an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was designated for the Soviet Union on 19 September 1990. Even though the Soviet Union itself was dissolved 15 months later, the .su top-level domain remains in use to the present day. It is administered by the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN, or RosNIIROS in Russian transcription).

The domain name (abbreviation of , '''''') is the Cyrillic country code top-level domain for the Russian Federation, in the Domain Name System of the Internet. In the Domain Name System it has the ASCII DNS name . The domain accepts only Cyrillic subdomain applications, and is the first Cyrillic implementation of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) system. The domain became operational on 13 May 2010. it is the most used internationalized country code top-level domain, with around 900,000 domain names.

thumb|Russophones worldwide, who generally use the Internet in Russian language

Russian political scientist (1951–2023)

political protest against President Vladimir Putin of Russia

Russian mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur

The System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM; ) is the technical specification for lawful interception interfaces of telecommunications and telephone networks operating in Russia. The current form of the specification enables the targeted surveillance of both telephone and Internet communications. Initially implemented in 1995 to allow access to surveillance data for the FSB, in subsequent years the access has been widened to other law enforcement agencies.

overview about the Internet in the Russian Federation

TatNet (short for "Tatar Internet") is the name Tatar-speaking Internet users commonly use for the segment of the Web about the Tatar people or Tatarstan. It includes webpages and websites in many languages.

artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Yandex

'''''' is a top-level domain intended for the Russian-speaking Internet community. It was delegated on 29 September 2014. Priority registration began on 3 September 2015. Open registration started on 24 May 2016. is one of 11 top-level domains for which issuance and reissuance of certificates were suspended due to the geopolitical situation in Ukraine.

Brontok is a computer worm running on Microsoft Windows. It is able to disperse by e-mail. Variants include:

Russian programmer

type of live streaming focused on pathological behaviors, like cruelty, bullying, and violence

overview of mass surveillance in Russia

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thumb|Akademset planned structure Akademset (, Academic Network), or All-Union Academic network, was a computer network that digitally connected scientific and civil institutions across the Soviet Union established in 1978. It was a Soviet forerunner to the Internet and had a connection with ARPANET and other Western analogues using the common digital standard called X.25. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was re-created under the name ROKSON (), and nowadays its surviving components may be considered as a local area network within the Runet and the Internet.

various types of cyberwarfare used by Russia against many nations

thumb|kremvax.DEMOS|demos[[.su, a follow-up server in 2007]] Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984, in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI (in Amsterdam) as an April Fool's prank—"because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time".