Key findings:

  • As of Spring 2011, approximately 53 million people in Russia aged 18 and older use the Internet on a monthly basis, or 46% of the corresponding population, up 22% in one year.
  • 11% of Russian Internet users live in Moscow, 5% in St. Petersburg, 9% in cities with more than 1 million inhabitants, and 18% in rural areas.
  • Almost three quarters of all Russian Internet users live in the European part of Russia.

Data source:

  • The report is based on the return of 24 surveys conducted in the spring of 2011 among a sample of 36,000 respondents across Russia.

Russian E-Commerce Report 2012

The total volume of Russian online retail reached 310 billion rubles, a little more than $10 billion, in 2011, up 25% from the previous year. EWDN's research study of Russian e-commerce will be available in April 2012.

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