(Information bulletin on development of the Internet in Russia’s regions, fall 2007, based on data from various Yandex services: Blog search, Market, News, the Yandex.Cities project, as well as on information from the FOM foundation, TNS Gallup, RU-Center and the Black Square project.)
Highlights:
- The number of websites in the Russian Internet increased 66% during 2007. The number of domains registered in the regions was growing slightly slower (57% this year)
- Moscow and Saint Petersburg are leading in all measures of Internet development and web user activity
- The Northwestern Federal Region is leading among all seven federal regions in the rate of Internet penetration (31%), with the Far Eastern Federal Region coming next (28%)
- The Central Federal Region has the largest number of Internet users (after Moscow and Saint Petersburg), which is 17% of all population online in Russia. The regions with the lowest number of web users are the Urals and the Far East (6% and 5% correspondingly)
- The Urals Federal Region, on average, is twice ahead of other regions in Internet activity
- The Southern and the Siberian Federal Regions are the closest to Russia’s average in all measures of Internet development