Runet Prize

Runet Prize
Awarded for	Excellence in Russian Internet segment development
Location	Moscow
Country	Russia
Presented by	Rospechat
First awarded	November 26, 2004[1]
Official website	http://premiaruneta.ru/

Runet Prize (Russian: Премия Рунета) is the national award of the Russian Federation. Its founder is Russian governmental agency FAPMC which oversees country's mass media.

First awarded in 2004, the prize honors top Russian language (mainly Russia-based) websites in several categories.

Runet is a portmanteau of the words "Russia" and "Internet".

Winners

2008

State and Society

• Website of the «Euronetwork (Russian: Евросеть)» 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 (Russian: Эхо Москвы)» (www.echo.msk.ru)
• Special nomination: Portal of the TV channel «TV Centre (Russian: ТВ Центр)» (www.tvc.ru)

Science and Education

• Group of companies «Vokrug Sveta (Russian: Вокруг света)» (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

• Group of companies «HeadHunter» (www.hh.ru)
• Company «Sky Link» (www.skylink.ru)
• Company «1C-Bitrix» (www.1c-bitrix.ru)

Health and Recreation

• Sport Internet mass medium «Sports.ru» (www.sports.ru)
• Alawar Entertainment (www.alawargroup.ru)
• Capital-Tour (Russian: Капитал-Тур) (www.capital-tour.ru)
• Special nomination: Social service SORRY.ru (www.sorry.ru)

Technologies and Innovations

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

Runet outside RU

• Radio station «Voice of Russia (www.ruvr.ru), Moscow, Russia.
• «Eurocatalog (Russian: Еврокаталог)»: Internet directory for the Russian-language Europe (www.evrokatalog.eu), Riga, Latvia.
• Children’s Internet portal «Solnyshko (Russian: Солнышко))» (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 Web-Services (www.ucoz.ru)
4. E-mail service Mail.ru (www.mail.ru)
5. National torrent tracker (www.torrents.ru)
6. Google.ru (www.google.ru)
7. Yandex.ru (www.yandex.ru)
8. MMORPG Game «Legend: Dragon Heritage (Russian: Легенда: Наследие Драконов) (www.dwar.ru)
9. Russian Wikipedia (ru.wikipedia.org)
10. Online game 11x11 (www.11x11.ru)

References

1. "2004 Contest Archive". Retrieved 2013-06-18.

External links

• Runet Prize website (Russian)