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Main Cities Codes:
Irkutsk 3952, Kazan 8432, Krasnodar 8612, Moscow 095, Nizhny Novgorod, 8312, Novosibirsk 3832, St. Petersburg 812, Vladivostok
4232, Volgograd 8442, Voronezh 0732, Yakutsk 411, Yaroslavl 0852, Yekaterinburg 3432
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Communications: Russia
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 30 million (1998)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 19 million (January 2003)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: the telephone system has undergone significant changes in the 1990s; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services are improving; Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy; however, a large demand for main line service remains unsatisfied
- domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services, both analog and digital, are available in many areas; in rural areas, the telephone services are still outdated, inadequate, and low density
- international: Russia is connected internationally by three undersea fiber-optic cables; digital switches in several cities provide more than 50,000 lines for international calls; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems
- Internet country code:
- .ru; Russia also has responsibility for a legacy domain ".su" that was allocated to the Soviet Union, its legal status and ownership are contested by the Russian Government, ICANN, and several Russian commercial entities
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 300 (June 2000)
- Internet users:
- 18 million (2002)
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