Acceptance of applications for the Runet 2008 Award has begun

The site reg.premiaruneta.ru began accepting applications for participation in the "Runet Awards - 2008".

This award was established in 2004, in the year of the anniversary of the Runet. She is now celebrating her fifth anniversary. During this time, the competition has become one of the most important and discussed events in the life of the Russian “online party”.

The prize is now awarded under state patronage: the founder is the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. This fact distinguishes the Russian event from the majority of foreign analogues. Practically anywhere in the world, government services do not interfere in this way in the affairs of online business and online media, not to mention civilian communities.

From 2004 to 2007 Over 100 Russian and foreign organizations became laureates of the Runet Prize, including: Kommersant, Microsoft, Intel, Rambler, Wikipedia, Mail.ru, RosBusinessConsulting, Kaspersky Lab, 1C-Bitrix, VGTRK, RIA-Novosti, Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly RF, RIA Novosti, Odnoklassniki, Sup Fabrik, Kultura TV channel, CNews online publication, DELFI information portal in Latvia and Estonia, Softkey company, Chronopay company, etc.
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Applications for the Runet Award 2008 are accepted in six main categories:
1. State and society.
2. Culture and mass communication.
3. Science and education.
4. Economy and business.
5. Health and recreation.
6. Technology and innovation.

Traditionally, each nomination will be awarded three equivalent statuettes "Runet Awards", confirming the status of the winner.

Innovation in 2008 will be a clear distribution of statuettes by types of winners.
* The first statuette is an organization that has made a significant contribution to the development of Runet.
* The second statuette - the best in the nomination of an Internet project (site).
* The third statuette is an organization or an Internet project from among the finalists (short-list), as proposed by the partner organization of the nomination (one of the finalists or laureates of previous years), by a decision of the Federal Expert Commission (FEC).

In addition to the statuettes in six main nominations, according to the tradition this year the statuettes will also be awarded in the nominations:

* Runet outside RU (special nomination).
* National treasure of the Russian Internet (personal reward).
* People’s Leader (winner of the All-Russian online action “People’s Vote”).

The personal award “The National Treasure of the Runet” is awarded by the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Runet Prize. The people's dozen and the “people's leader” will be determined during the multi-stage All-Russian online campaign “People's Vote”, the first stage of which starts in July 2008.

As in previous years, the Winner Prize Expert Club (over 500 people) and the Runet Prize Expert Council (more than 100 people) will determine the winners in the six main categories and in the specialty “Runet Outside RU”. Voting will take place in two stages: in the first stage, so-called will be drawn up. shortlists of finalists; At the second stage, the laureates in the nominations will be determined. All stages of voting will be held online at the Runet Award website in the specialized section experts.premiaruneta.ru . The voting process is monitored by the Federal Expert Commission (FEC), which consists of 24 members.