[3] At the end of the week of the launch, it was responsible for 0.01% of the search engine traffic in Russia, compared with 62% for Yandex and 28% for Google.

In order to help bring in users, Oseevsky wanted to make Sputnik the primary search engine for government agencies and businesses, but he got little to no support for this.

[7] In 2018, Rostelecom filed Sputnik LLC for bankruptcy, the reason being the company was unable to pay its debt.

[9] At the end of 2010, publications appeared in the media that the Russian government intended to allocate funds for a project to create a national general-purpose search system.

At that time, the state search service was planned to be created within the framework of the federal program “Electronic Government” .

[12] On May 22, 2014, the Sputnik project was presented at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) by Alexey Basov.

In his speech at that SPIEF, Basov said that search engines have room to grow: 40% of Russian residents, one way or another, do not use the Internet or use it extremely rarely.