At its meeting on 30 September 2009, the Council of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU ruled to abolish special types of second-level domain names in domain .RU. >>>

On 26 January 2010 at RIA-News, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU, represented by  Messrs. Mikhail Yakushev, Chairman of the Council , Andrey Kolesnikov, Director and Maxim Bobin, Council Member , held a press conference on first results of the domain names priority reservation in the new Cyrillic domain .рф.   >>>

With the support of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU and the Russian school libraries association (RSLA) employees of the “School sector” of RELARN Association and the “School Mediateka” of ISMO RAO launched  a distance training course “I learn to blog!” specially designed for school librarians. >>>

The Coordination Center for TLD .RU announces that the application for the new Cyrillic domain .РФ has successfully passed Fast Track procedure and the ICANN has approved the application. >>>

In anticipation of Russia’s delegation of the new Cyrillic domain .РФ, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU has carried out a regular testing in order to check consistency of modern operational systems and programs with IDN (Internationalized Domain Names). >>>

Let us inform you that the english-language translation of the latest version of Terms and conditions of domain names registration under domain .RU and translation of Terms and conditions of domain names registration under domain .РФ is presented on our web-site now. >>>

Mr. Igor Schegolev, the RF Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, has co-opted Russia’s representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) under the internet-corporation ICANN – Mr. Oleg Chutov - Director of the Department of scientific and technical and strategic development of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. >>>

After the successful accreditation procedure two companies has gained status of a registrars in .RU ccTLD – “COMSTAR” and “WEBDRIVE”. >>>

On 16 November 2009 at 3AM Moscow time the Coordination Center for TLD RU has submitted to the ICANN the documents for registration of the new Cyrillic alphabet domain .РФ. Thus, Russia has become one of the first countries to submit such a request: for the first time in the Internet’s history, a country has applied for a domain with a full-fledged use of the Cyrillic alphabet – domain .РФ. Now that the application has been submitted one should wait for the completion of the ICANN’s verification procedures and the official delegation of domain .РФ. >>>

On 9 November 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received Igor Schegolev, the RF Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications. Mr. Schegolev briefed the President on the progress with introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet domain .РФ. He also updated the RF President on the schedule of the launch of the new domain and on the changes which would take place in the Internet due to the launch of the domain .РФ >>>