By 1982 VNIIPAS[6] institute was created in Moscow to serve as Akademset's central node, which established X.25 regular connection to IIASA in Austria (which allowed access to other worldwide networks).
[7] VNIIPAS also provided X.25 services, including over satellite, to Eastern bloc countries together with Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam.
The USSR nominally joined the private Fidonet network in October 1990 when the first node of Region 50 appeared in Novosibirsk.
The company was established as a joint venture of the San Francisco Moscow Teleport network and the All-Russian Research Institute of Automated Application Systems (ВНИИПАС).
San Francisco Moscow Teleport (SFMT) was launched in 1983 by financier George Soros and American Joel Schatz[9] with the support of the US government.
The All-Russian Research Institute of Automated Application Systems provided a data transmission network with some countries in Eastern Europe, as well as Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam, almost all of the data traffic was scientific and technical information, and in 1983 organized a non-state email network.
In 1992, Sovam Teleport began to build a UUCP mail and terminal access system through American servers.
On June 4, 1992, the company was re-registered as a limited liability partnership, and all three co-founders - Cable & Wireless, All-Russian Research Institute of Automated Application Systems and SFMT - received almost equal shares.
However, a group of developers made a Russian version of the Unix operating system, secretly brought from America, and called it DEMOS.
Some Unix developers, working at the Kurchatov Nuclear Energy Research Institute created a network that used DEMOS, namely RELCOM.
It was founded in 1996 by Emelyan Zakharov, Demyan Kudryavcev, Egor Shuppe, Dmitriy Bosov and Rafael Filinov.
One of the key features was the so-called Rambler Top-100, that showed the one hundred top searched websites on the Russian internet.
In the beginning of 1999, 53% of Rambler's shares were sold to investors Russian Fonds (Русские Фонды) and Orion Capital Advisors.
[13] In the early 90s, Ilya Segalovich and Arkadii Volozh developed a search algorithm that was based on the morphology of Russian language.
Mail.ru, that is based on a free web mail system created by Alexei Krivenkov, became the main asset of Port.ru, a company he co-founded with his American partner, Eugene Goland.
One of the top Russian businessman, Yuri Milner - billionaire, global investor, one of co-owners and chairman of Mail.ru Group during the period from 2001 to 2012.
After studying several industries, he came across a young and growing sector called Internet, that required minimal startup capital and had an enormous potential.
VK (VKontakte) is a social network, that was founded in 2006 by Pavel Durov with the help of Russian-Israeli investors Yitzchak Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev.
Mail.ru Group is developing a direction of work in the field of Big data, which includes the creation of predictive mathematical models, conducting market research, consulting in the field of infrastructure development and methodology for working with big data.
The Mail.ru brand also operates the Mail.ru platform for business, combining all B2B services of the company, a Q&A system, called Mail.ru answers and other Internet projects.
In 2018, Roskomnadzor required Pavel Durov to give access to the encryption keys, otherwise Telegram would be blocked in Russia.
On April 13, 2018, the Tagansky court of Moscow ruled in favor of Roskomnadzor, allowing them to block Telegram in Russia.
According to Aleksei Navalny, "After 2005 or 2006, when mass media had been cleaned up and there remained only a couple of independent newspapers, the entire political debate moved to LiveJournal."
After leaving Thanks, Eva!, Prusikin, Usachev and their friends founded KlikKlak, Russia's first independent community of video bloggers.
Nowadays in Russia there are several production teams on YouTube similar to KlikKlak, for instance Chiken Curry and Big Russian Boss.
The evolution of online platforms and streaming services makes it possible to monetize and promote web content without involvement by producers or the state.
The so-called filtration law makes it mandatory to block websites containing harmful information, like pedophilia, propaganda of suicide, etc.
As Malofeyev stated, the League's main task was to prepare a bill to protect children from negative content.
The bill obliges telecom operators to store calls and messages of subscribers for a period determined by the Government of the Russian Federation (but no more than 6 months).
[24] The official law implies creation of independent network infrastructure, in order to maintain Internet connection in the case of foreign root servers becoming unavailable.