isturbing events happened in my country: i.e. The war in Chechnya, the president elections; and I felt closer to my country because of it.Russia is in the beginning stage of the capitalistic economy, which means that there is no monopolisation of the market. There isnt an equivalent of UUNET as in Belgium, or America On Line. When I looked up the Internet Service Providers in Russia on the web, it gave me a list of six pages long with 188 names. The reason for so many is because Russia isnt very centralised, and people prefer to invest or pay to someone who is geographically closer. For example people in Kamchatka, which is the eastern side of Russia would feel very uncomfortable to transfer their money to someone in Moscow, which is more than 10,000 km away. If they had a problem with the Internet connection it would be costly and almost impossible to reach them by phone. The problem from the side of the provider, is that to base an office in every region in Russia is too costly. The most widespread provider in Russia is INSAR. In Moscow there are more than a few, the most used ones are CityLine Ltd., Matrex, Elvis telecom, Demos. These providers service the whole city and a few regions close to Moscow. There are also providers that service specific districts in Moscow; an example of such is Ramenskoye Internet Service Provider. Examples of Internet Service Providers in the rest of Russia are: PO Sibiteks which works around Siberia, KamchatSvyazinform WWW which services Kamchatka, ISP in Kingisepp Leningrad region which services St. Petersburg region, Nizhniy Novgorod Information Networks which services the city of Nizhniy Novgorod, etc. Most of the universities in Moscow and other big cities are involved in the foreign exchange programmes. This makes a WebPages a necessity. Some universities offer an english version, while some leave it to the reader to translate the information. Moscow State University has an English and a Russian ...
