Runet Prize
Encyclopedia
Runet Prize is the national award of the Russian Federation. Its founder is Russian governmental agency FAPMC which oversees country's mass media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

.

First awarded in 2004, the prize honors top Russian language
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 (mainly Russia-based) website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

s in several categories.

In 2006, 2007 and 2009 a Runet Prize in the category "Science and education" was awarded to the Russian language version of Wikipedia
Russian Wikipedia
The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It has over articles. It was founded on 20 May 2001. By May 2008 it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and in February 2011 it ranked 8th. It surpassed 750,000 articles in August 2011...

.

Runet
Runet
Currently Internet access in Russia is available to businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up, cable, DSL, FTTH, mobile, wireless and satellite...

 is a portmanteau of the words "Russia" and "Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

".

2008

State and Society
  • Website of the «Euronetwork » Company Charity Fund (www.euroset.ru)
  • Information and news portal «KP.ru» (www.kp.ru)
  • Information and Public Relations Administration of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the project «Petrovka38.ru» (www.petrovka38.ru)
  • Special nomination: Portal «GAI.ru» (www.gai.ru)


Culture and Mass Communications
  • Portal «Afisha.ru» (www.afisha.ru)
  • Music portal «Zvuki.ru» (www.zvuki.ru)
  • Radio station «Echo of Moscow
    Echo of Moscow
    Echo of Moscow is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics , and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia"...

     » (www.echo.msk.ru)
  • Special nomination: Portal of the TV channel «TV Centre
    TV Center
    TV Center is a state-run Russia TV station with the fourth largest coverage area in Russia, after Channel One, Rossiya and NTV. It is owned by the administration of the city of Moscow and is dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of Moscow life.The channel is broadcast in the...

     » (www.tvc.ru)


Science and Education
  • Group of companies «Vokrug Sveta
    Vokrug sveta
    Vokrug sveta is the oldest magazine in the Russian language, still being published . The first issue was printed in Saint Petersburg, in December 1861, almost thirty years before the establishment of the National Geographic Magazine...

     » (www.vokrugsveta.ru)
  • Project «The Open World of Information Technologies» (www.idea-russia.ru)
  • Computer education center «Specialist» at the Bauman MSTU (www.specialist.ru)


Economics and Business


Health and Recreation


Technologies and Innovations
  • Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

     Russia (www.microsoft.ru)
  • «Rambler Media Group» (www.rambler.ru)
  • Hosting provider «Masterhost» (www.masterhost.ru)


Runet outside RU
  • Radio station «Voice of Russia
    Voice of Russia
    Voice of Russia is the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service owned by the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company. Its predecessor Radio Moscow was the official international broadcasting station of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.-Early years:Radio Moscow...

     (www.ruvr.ru), Moscow, Russia.
  • «Eurocatalog »: Internet directory for the Russian-language Europe (www.evrokatalog.eu), Riga, Latvia.
  • Children’s Internet portal «Solnyshko )» (www.solnet.ee), Valga, Estonia.


People’s Ten
  1. Social network Odnoklassniki.ru (www.odnoklassniki.ru)
  2. Entertaining Runet quotes website (www.bash.org.ru)
  3. UcoZ
    UCoz
    uCoz is a free web hosting with built-in content management system. The modules of uCoz CMS can be used together to build a fully featured website, or separately, e.g. as a blog platform, webforum etc. As of July 10, 2010, there are more than one million websites created in uCoz systems...

     Web-Services (www.ucoz.ru)
  4. E-mail service Mail.ru
    Mail.ru
    Mail.ru is the largest free e-mail service of the Runet. The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as spin-off from DataArt. It received an initial investment of USD 1 million from the well-known investor James...

     (www.mail.ru)
  5. National torrent tracker (www.torrents.ru)
  6. Google
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

    .ru (www.google.ru)
  7. Yandex
    Yandex
    Yandex is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia and develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex is ranked as 5-th world largest search engine...

    .ru (www.yandex.ru)
  8. MMORPG Game «Legend: Dragon Heritage (www.dwar.ru)
  9. Russian Wikipedia
    Russian Wikipedia
    The Russian Wikipedia is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It has over articles. It was founded on 20 May 2001. By May 2008 it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and in February 2011 it ranked 8th. It surpassed 750,000 articles in August 2011...

    (ru.wikipedia.org)
  10. Online game 11x11 (www.11x11.ru)
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