Russian Internet Forum (RIF) is the annual conference where people who feel they build the

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 ...

meet. Those include members of Russian telecom and software industries, representatives of various Internet businesses and state institutions such as Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications (FAPMC), Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, Ministry for Communications and Informatization of the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. The event is held every year in March or April since 1997 and usually lasts 3 days. The main site for it is the rest home complex "Lesnye Dali" (Forest Expanses), which is operated by the Affair Management Office of the

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, in Gorky-10 settlement in the

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district of Moscow Oblast. In 2003 a simultaneous subsidiary conference was also held in

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city. Since 2006 a RIF-related series of smaller conferences is held in 10 large Russian cities under the brand of "All-Russian Internet Marathon". There are several sponsors, the main organizer of the event is the non-profit organization ROCIT (Regional Social Center for Internet Technologies) which is related to FAPMC and also organizes the

Runet Prize 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 languag ...

. On April 3, 2008, the 12th RIF was opened by the

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of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

External links

RIF website

ROCIT website
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