Subject: [CivilSoc] 3.3 Million Russians Are Connected to Internet
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 19:25:40 EST
From Johnson's Russia List, #4701, 21 December 2000
<davidjohnson@erols.com>
Russia: Number of Internet users stands at over three million
(ITAR-TASS)
Moscow, 20 December: On the threshold of the third millennium Russia
is lagging behind many other countries in the use of world computer
technologies, a survey revealed.
According to the survey conducted by the Obshchestvennoye Mneniye
(Public Opinion) foundation, 51.04m Russians or 55.9 per cent, are
hardly aware of the existence of the global web: 20.3 per cent of
them said they had heard nothing about the Internet before being
polled and 35.6 per cent declared they had heard "something".
Judging from the result of the survey, 10.3m Russians, or 11.3 per
cent, have access to the Internet at work, at home or at their
friends'. The number of actual users is only 3.3m people, or 3.6 per
cent. The web mainly remains "something in the capital" as Muscovites
make up one-fourth of the users. The inhabitants of St Petersburg
come next. But the interests in the Internet is growing in the major
cities of the Ural, Volga and South Federal Districts.
A total of 69,610 people were polled in 115 cities located in 65
federal constituents.
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