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The telecommunications system in Russia have undergone significant changes since the 1980s, resulting in more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services today. More »
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Translit
Translit is a method of encoding Cyrillic letters with Latin ones. The term stems from transliteration, a method used by interpreters to translate otherwise untranslatable words such as names or geographical locations. There is evidence of translit use in international telegraphic communications in the past. On the web it spread widely with the fall of USSR as its former countries became open to modern information technologies, especially networking equipment and the internet. More »
Internet Exchange Points in Russia
Public Internet Exchange Points in Russia comprise of ''MSK-IX'' in Moscow, ''SPB-IX'' in Saint-Petersburg, ''SAMARA-IX'' in Samara, ''NSK-IX'' in Novosibirsk and ''KRS-IX'' in Krasnoyarsk. The most popular of these is the MSK-IX with over 190 members and over 14 Gbit/s steady throughput during peak-hours in the weekdays. On the territory of NSK-IX, RIPE operates a mirror of its k.root-servers.net. More »
Communications in Russia
The telecommunications system in Russia have undergone significant changes since the 1980s, resulting in more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services today. More »
.su
.su was assigned as the country code top-level domain for the Soviet Union in 1990. It remains in use today, even though the Soviet Union itself no longer exists, and is administered by the Russian Institute for Development of Public Networks. In 2001, the managers of the domain stated that they will commence accepting new .su registrations, but it is unclear whether this action is compatible with ICANN policies. New .su registrations cost US$100. More »
Russian Post
]] Russian Post , is the state-owned postal service of Russia. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia, as well as the issuing of stamps. Russian Post employs about 370 000 people and has over 40 000 postal offices. Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union created in 1874. In 1802 Chief Postal Service was made part of the Internal Affairs Ministry and in 1917 under the Provisional Government it became part of Ministry of Post and Telegraph. More »
Russian Wikipedia
The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. On August 16, 2006, it reached the 100,000 article mark. On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the prestigious Russian state "Runet Prize" in the category "science and education". More »
Volapuk encoding
__NOTOC__ Volapuk encoding or Pseudotranslit is a slang term for rendering the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet with Latin ones. Unlike Translit , here characters are replaced ''to look the same''. It is often used for nicknames, and quite rarely for normal text. Volapuk is an opposite term to Faux Cyrillic. More »
Udaff
'' Udaff.com , or the resource is a Russian counter-culture site devoted to publishing short stories. Although technically anything can be posted on the site, it is pre-moderated by its creator, so boring or homosexual-sympathetic stories will most likely will end up in the "Recycle bin". Most stories contain outrightly obscene and grammatically incorrect language, as wells as scenes of nudity, violence and alcohol/drug consumption, although this is not a must. More »
Runet
Runet is the name Russian-speaking Internet users commonly use to call the part of Internet written or understood in the Russian language. More »
Russian post offices in Crete
The Russian post offices in Crete were established by Russia in the area of Crete it occupied as part of the joint occupying force that arrived in 1898. Russia issued postage stamps for its district of Rethymno in 1899. However, the postal service operated for only a very short period, from May to July. A first set of four stamps was produced by handstamping two designs, both based on the imperial Russian double eagle emblem. One design was inscribed with colorless Greek letters in colored... More »
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