Сеть, работающая в области исследований, образования, техники, основана некоммерческой организацией; этот провайдер удовлетворяет коммуникационные потребности исследовательских институтов Российской Академии Наук, университетов, колледжей и прочих исследовательcких и академических институтов России. Наряду с прочими льготами FREEnet обеспечивает полное IP подключение (внутри страны и за рубежом), DNS сервис, отправку почты, коммутируемый доступ и другие информационные услуги. Существует более дюжины региональных отделений, действующих независимо, но сотрудничующих на равных в соответствии с принципами FREEnet. Этот сервер на русском и английском языках.

A diagram and explanation of Federal Nodes which are RUNNet points of presence in the regions. They connect regional networks of science and education, universities, research institutions and academic organisations.

This network that aims at creating common information space of Russian science and education and its integration into the world information community. RUNNet creation was launched by Ministry of Education (former State Committee for Higher Education) of Russian Federation in accordance with the State Program "Universities of Russia". The network backbone provides connectivity for main economical regions of Russia.Federal Nodes are RUNNet points of presence in the regions. They connect regional networks of science and education, universities, research institutions and academic organizations. St. Petersburg Technical University is an organizing member of RUNNet which is connecting Russian Universities by satellite links. Initial connection cities include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Petrozavodsk, Saratov, Ulianovsk. 

This program, funded by Open Socieity Institute (OSI), is designed to "(a) provide 32 provincial universities in the Russian Federation with a fully equipped computing center and multi-media lab with complete access to the Internet (b) to administer content based program initiatives for the university and non-university communities". This highly informative site provides detailed information on this beneficial program, a list and map of the universities that are participating, press releases and last but not least, "Russia from Coast to Coast" which is the newsletter of the UIC.

Corporation "Universities networks of knowledge" is non-profit association established in 1992 by leading Russian universities with the aim of development of universities' telecommunications and their information resources. Nowadays more than 170 universities and institution of Academy of Science are members of the UNICOR Corporation. UNICOR is based upon scientific and educational network. Starting from 1993 a project "Nationalacademic system of databases and knowledge bases of higher school of Russia" is realizing on the basis of UNICOR and FREEnet. Forty-four (44) universities are participating in this project. From 1994 UNICOR is a member and represents Russian scientific and Educational networks in the international organization: Central and Eastern European Network (CEENet).