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22 February 2010 - 16:17 AMT

Armenian Internet users mostly use Russian web-sites

60 per cent of Armenia’s Internet traffic accounts for servers in the domain “.Ru”, Samvel Arabajyan, PSRC member told journalists today. According to Arabajyan, in this case, Armenian operators have to pay for transit to Georgian and Turkish operators, which affects pricing. Armenia should continue to diversify the channels of Internet communication: within coming 1or 2 months a third fiber-optic cable from Georgia will be put into operation, and another cable via Iran is under construction.

According to Alexa.com statistics, odnoklassniki.ru, mail.ru, yandex.ru, rambler.ru, liveinternet.ru, vkontakte.ru are the most popular web portals of .Ru zone. in Armenia.