Runet Prize (russian: Премия Рунета) is a national award of the
Russian Federation
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. Its founder is
Russian governmental agency
FAPMC which oversees country's
mass media
Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets.
Broadcast media transmit informati ...
.
First awarded in 2004, the prize honors top
Russian language (mainly Russia-based)
website
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s in the categories:
*State and Society
*Science and Education
*Culture and Mass Communications
*Economics and Business
*Health and Recreation
*Mobile app
*Internet project
*Internet community of the year
*Game of the year.
Runet
Runet (russian: Рунет), a portmanteau of ru (code for both the Russian language and Russia's top-level domain) and net/network, is the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites. The term Runet was coined in Israel in the sp ...
is a portmanteau of the words "Russia" and "
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
".
See also
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List of computer-related awards
References
External links
Runet Prize website{{in lang, ru
Internet in Russia
Computer-related awards
Web awards
Internet pioneers