Runet

The Internet in Russian, also known as the Russian Internet (Russian: русский Интернет) or Runet (Russian: Рунет), is the part of the Internet that uses the Russian language, including the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites. Geographically, it reaches all continents, including Antarctica (Russian scientists on Bellingshausen Station), but mostly it is based in Russia.

For other uses, see Runet (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Internet in Russia.


The term Runet is a portmanteau of ru (code for both the Russian language and Russia's top-level domain) and net/network. The term was coined in 1997 by Azerbaijani-Israeli blogger Raffi Aslanbekov (Russian: Раффи Асланбеков), known as "Great Uncle" in Russia, on his Russian-language column Great Uncle's Thoughts. The term was popularized by early Internet users and was included in several dictionaries, including the spelling dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, edited by V. V. Lopatin in 2001.

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