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]
Website	http://premiaruneta.ru/

Runet Prize (Russian: Премия Рунета) is a 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

• Projects of Russian News Agency RIA Novosti (www.ria.ru)
• 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

External links

• Runet Prize website (in Russian)