Try Russian-language Internet

16 Jun, 2008

If you think the Internet is complicated enough, try it in Russian. For Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an avowed computer addict who came to power in May, it's a matter of national importance.
"We must do everything we can for the introduction of domain names in the Cyrillic alphabet on the Internet. This is serious. It has a symbolic significance for the Russian language," Medvedev told a Moscow media forum on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old Russian president is an Internet devotee who says he hardly every switches his computer off.
His comments about introducing Russia's Cyrillic alphabet chime with a campaign to widen the usage of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) that can accommodate other non-Latin alphabets such as Arabic, Chinese or Hindi.

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