rt 2000. The reason for its popularity is the automatic translation of foreign sites into Russian, as well as the automatic compatibility to any computer system. Another reason is the ability for the user to type in the information in English and get the feedback in Russian. Aport 2000 is giving Russian users the ability to surf on the foreign internet and overcome the language barrier, unfortunately a user that is not familiar with the Russian language is unable to use this particular system. Other famous Russian search engines are Yandex, often used because the looked for words are highlighted in red, Rambler, AU, Deol WebGuide, City Line; and a special web directory for visitors of the country called Russia for Visitors.Internet is used not only for information retrieval, but also for leisure and communication purposes. Chatrooms are as famous among Russian users, as they are in the rest of the world. For the same old reason, as a language barrier, Russian people prefer to go to Russian chatrooms. The most used ones are: Chatpage, Bessedki and KPOBATKA. You find people using both Russian and Latin letters to spell russian words, depending on their keyboard capacity. In the past year great advances in the Internet have happened in Russia. Today almost all of the famous bands and singers have a website, where the fans can enjoy their latest albums and singles. The bands attach a personal note to the users, explaining that its obvious that these songs are going to be copied to the MP3s. The users are asked to make a donation of $ 0.20 per song to the band, so that it would be possible for the singers to continue making music and have new releases. The example of such a band is Mummy Troll. I know from personal experience that there are young people who make these donations, so the notes are not made for nothing. There has been a growing amount of privately owned newspapers in Russia since 1992. Most of them cant afford to put all of the...
