Population Internet in Russia

dmitry medvedev opens rif-2008

the prominent public opinion foundation fom (ФОМ) in march 2007 issued report found 28 million people of 18 years , older in russia (25%) had used internet within last 6 months (monthly users 23.9/21%; daily 10.1/9%). in november 2006 tns gallup media in report called sources first quality internet audience research in russia put monthly russian audience @ more 15 million. rukv.ru monitoring project found 1,001,806 www-addresses within .ru , .su responding in march 2008. national domain registration service ru-center announced creation of millionth .ru domain on september 17, 2007 (about 200 thousand of domains thought parked squatters).

on april 3, 2008, rif-2008 opened president-elect of russia dmitry medvedev, said in opening address forum estimates runet populated 40 million users, or 28 percent of population. stated russian sites $3 billion in annual transactions , have $370 million in advertising revenue.

in october 2008 president medvedev started own video blog, in april 2009 expanded separately moderated version in livejournal.

in june 2009 fom issued results of new survey found half-year audience of people 18 years old , on 33%, or 37.5 million.

cia world factbook states there 10.382 million internet hosts in 2008 , 40.853 million internet users in 2010 in russia.

by march 2011 total number of broadband subscribers reached 16.5 million penetration @ 30%. these numbers increased within 2 years 180% against 9 million in 2009. highest penetration rate above 70% in moscow , saint-petersburg, these 2 cities makes quarter of subscribers (3.2 , 1.2 million respectively).

in september 2011, russia overtook germany european market highest number of unique visitors online.

in march 2013 announced russian second used language on web. according daily telecom estimates, third quarter of 2013 there 26.3 million broadband subscribers. largest residential internet service providers market share @ end of 2013 were: rostelecom: 38.6%, er-telecom: 11.1%, vimpelcom: 10.1%, mts: 9.4%, transtelekom: 4.6%, akado: 3.3%, others: 22.9%

usage propaganda

since 2013, state has employed internet users in order spread propaganda , disinformation advocating activities of russian government , discrediting opposition , western countries. major organization employing them, internet issledovania (russian: Интернет исследования), had office in olgino, saint petersburg, , subsequently moved bigger office savushkina street, in saint petersburg. employees have present in office 12 hours per day every second day. involved in various activities including creating of visibility of mass-support of government in social media (both in russian , in english), propagating texts between different media, , collectively attacking users anti-government views, using multiple identities. salary fixed , paid if employees has written fixed number of comments per day not shorter fixed number of letters. comments must contain key words, fixed set every day. collectively, known kremlin trolls or trolls olgino . same organization hosts number of websites, including kharkov news agency, claim news agencies operating eastern ukraine or donbass area , providing local news, in fact have no staff outside saint petersburg office building.