On December 1, an agreement on accreditation in the .RU and .РФ domains was signed with Moscow domain name registrar Atex.
Since the beginning of 2016, 12 registrars have been accredited in .RU and .РФ, and one registrar, RTKomm.RU, voluntarily terminated accreditation, which ended on December 1, 2016. That makes 45 accredited registrars in the Russian market.