Kremlin.ru is the official website of the
President of the Russian Federation
The president of the Russian Federation ( rus, Президент Российской Федерации, Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the head of state of the Russian Federation. The president leads the executive branch of the federal ...
. It was launched in January 2000. Content of the website is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Content
The website publishes all content issued by the ''Presidential Press Service'' in Russian and English, especially transcripts of Russian Presidential speeches (e.g.
Valdai speech of Vladimir Putin).
History
The web site of the
President of Russia
The president of the Russian Federation ( rus, Президент Российской Федерации, Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the head of state of the Russian Federation. The president leads the executive branch of the federal ...
was launched in January 2000, and was radically reworked during 2001-2002, which resulted in a second version being released on June 20, 2002, followed by an English version a year later. On January 19, 2004, a children's version was released and called the ''President of Russia - to citizens of school age''."
A third version was released on June 20, 2004, only three months after the
Russian Presidential Election
Russian presidential elections determine who will serve as the president of Russia for the next six (formerly four from 1996 to 2012 and five from 1991 to 1996) years.
Since the establishment of the position of the President of Russia in 1991, t ...
.
A fourth version was released on August 31, 2009, with an English version on June 3, 2010.
The fifth, current version was released on April 8, 2015.
On May 11, 2010, the site became one of the first three sites in the domain
.rf.
On July 20, 2012, the site was target of a
DDoS
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attack, and in 2013, the site was blocked in
Turkmenistan
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.
During February 24, 2022, the site was shortly intermittently unavailable due to DDoS attacks, as a reaction to the
Russian military incursions into Ukraine.
Days after the attack, the website returned back online and is currently active.
References
External links
kremlin.ru
eng.kremlin.ru
Internet properties established in 2000
Internet in Russia
Presidency of Russia
Creative Commons-licensed websites
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