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illicium on Jan 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox in Russia dumps Google for Yandex

It's basically just a colloquial term for all Russian-language websites. Just like the English-speaking Internet has various social news and blog sites that almost "glue" it together (Digg, Reddit, Y.C, Facebook, 4chan, etc), Runet has the appropriate equivalents (Livejournal, VKontakte, dirty.ru, 2ch.ru, etc)

ntoshev on Jan 12, 2009 [–]

I believe the Russian ISPs are highly interconnected, so Russian users get more bandwidth and less latency when they use local sites vs international.

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