Archive for June 12, 2008

Cyrillic Internet domain name

Dmitry Medvedev the President of Russia has stated “We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name,” Mr Medvedev told the International Congress of Russian Press in Moscow. “It is a pretty serious thing. With the development of the IDN’s the Cyrillic Internet [...]

Russian President Wants Cyrillic Tld

According to new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Russia needs to be assigned a Tld ( top level domain name ) in the Cyrillic script in order to promote Russian as an international language.
Worries are growing in the Kremlin that the influence of Russian, once the main language in the Soviet Union is waning due to [...]