The 8th award ceremony of the National Prize for the contribution to development of the Russian segment of Internet, “Runet-2011 Award”, was held on the stage of the “Pushkin” cinema theater on 25 November 2011. The Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) was its established organizer and the Coordination Center for TLDs RU/РФ co-sponsored the event this year.
Igor Schegolev, Minister of Telecom and Mass Media, opened the ceremony. “We are celebrating this year’s milestone development with Internet in Russia having topped Europe by the number of users, - noted I. Schegolev. – This year, we are close to the 1,000,000 milestone by the number of registered domain names in zone .РФ.” Igor Schegolev presented the award in the category “State and Society” to three winners: project ANO “Modernizatsiya” (i-russia.ru), “VTB-Russia” (vtbrussia.ru) and infosud.ru.
This year, the Coordination Center sponsored a special category “For the Contribution to Development of Domain .РФ”, which aimed to distinguish projects promoting development of the Russian Cyrillic top-level domain.
“Domain .РФ, undoubtedly became a distinguishing feature of 2011, - Andrey Kolesnikov, the CC’s CEO, said at the award ceremony. – The fact that sites in the Internet now can be named in Russian, I believe, is already known to all Russians. About a hundred sites in domain .РФ submitted applications for the Runet-2011 Award in our category. And a good bunch of them, I think, proved well worth the award – just for creative approach to the usage of the domain and assistance in demonstrating to our countrymen the fact that the Russian domain is practical, popular and fancy.”
The “For the Contribution to Development of Domain .РФ” award ultimately went to: the project большоеправительство.рф, the project суперсадовник.рф, and the portal for the children and teenagers вектор-успеха.рф. But the award ceremony was not over with that: one of the winners in the category “Science and Education” also was a Cyrillic Internet project - умная-школа.рф.
The complete list of the Runet-2011 winners is available on the site of the Award.
