{"id":13098,"date":"2014-06-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/27\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview\/"},"modified":"2014-06-27T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:00:00","slug":"en-russia-igf-2014-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2014\/06\/27\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2014) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 5th Russian IGF met on 7 April 2014 at Moscow&#39;s Marriott Grand Hotel \u2014 exactly 20 years after the .RU domain&#39;s delegation, with Prime Minister Medvedev sending video congratulations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sessions celebrated a runet economy worth 8.5% of GDP and 5 million jobs, introduced new Cyrillic domains like .\u0414\u0415\u0422\u0418, debated privacy, cybersecurity and online justice, and closed with a special address by former IAB chair Olaf Kolkman.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One month after the Crimea annexation, RIPE NCC, ICANN and foreign registries still shared the stage \u2014 a portrait of the runet, hailed as a national asset, on the eve of its regulatory turn.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>5th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2014)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>5th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2014)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>7 April 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Award<\/td>\n<td>Olaf Kolkman (Director of NLnet Labs, former IAB chair) received the forum&#39;s Order for Services to the Internet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424 and the Technical Center of Internet (TCI), supported by ICANN and RAEC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Milestone<\/td>\n<td>20th anniversary of the .RU domain (delegated 7 April 1994), with a video address from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. .RU at 20 \u2014 &#39;I Hope These Are Not Wasted Minutes&#39;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Press conference on the .RU 20th anniversary (11:45\u201312:30) and session &#39;The Tips and Tricks of the Internet Economy&#39; (10:45\u201311:45)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;An average web user spends over 100 minutes per day in the .RU zone \u2014 I hope these are not wasted minutes&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Dmitry Medvedev (Prime Minister of Russia, video address)<\/strong> [4][3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;We have nurtured .RU to maturity and are now giving the same treatment to .\u0420\u0424&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Marina Nikerova (Deputy General Director, Technical Center of Internet)<\/strong> [4][3][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>RAEC&#39;s Sergei Plugotarenko reported the internet economy at 8.5% of Russian GDP, 5 million jobs, and over 80% of 2013 investment deals landing in IT [4][3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Medvedev noted Russia led Europe in internet users; the day closed with an anniversary concert at Arena Moscow [4][3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. The New Domain Space \u2014 From .\u0414\u0415\u0422\u0418 to .\u041c\u041e\u0421\u041a\u0412\u0410<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2 &#39;Face the Domain Space&#39; (13:30\u201315:00) and the &#39;Meet New Domains&#39; panel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited registration opened for .\u0414\u0415\u0422\u0418, the Cyrillic children&#39;s domain, while .\u041c\u041e\u0421\u041a\u0412\u0410\/.MOSCOW, .TATAR, .\u0420\u0423\u0421 and Ukraine&#39;s .\u0423\u041a\u0420 presented their launch strategies [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<li>With ICANN&#39;s new gTLD programme exploding the namespace, city, ethnic and language domains were pitched as vessels of local identity [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<li>Notably, Ukraine&#39;s .\u0423\u041a\u0420 took the stage \u2014 technical-community dialogue holding even amid political crisis [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Privacy \u2014 Is Data Protection a Basic Human Right?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 1 &#39;Fear\/no\/Action. Privacy on the Net&#39; (13:30\u201315:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panellists framed online personal-data protection as a basic human right, centring on how far government and business access to user data should go [5][2]<\/li>\n<li>Chatham House&#39;s Caroline Baylon, Microsoft, the communications ministry, RAEC and MSU&#39;s Ivan Zasurskiy debated \u2014 one year after Snowden, the surveillance-versus-service line was a global question [5][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Cybersecurity \u2014 An &#39;IAEA for Cyberspace&#39;?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 3 &#39;Cybersecurity \u2013 Liquidity vs. Solidity&#39; (15:30\u201317:00) and the danger-free internet panel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participants floated an IAEA-style international institution to combat transnational cybercrime [5][2]<\/li>\n<li>RIPE NCC, Czech registry NIC.CZ, cybercrime investigators Group-IB, Kaspersky Lab and Federation Council members weighed how international best practice translates into Russian domestic contexts [5][2]<\/li>\n<li>The gap between national approaches and international coordination \u2014 soon to widen in cyber-norms negotiations \u2014 was already on the table [5][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. Online Justice and Architecture \u2014 A Forum That Kept Its Dissenters<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 4 &#39;\u2026and Justice for All&#39; (15:30\u201317:00) and the special address (17:00\u201318:00)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#39;\u2026and Justice for All&#39; session seated critics of the state \u2014 Agora human-rights lawyer Damir Gainutdinov and Pirate Party leader Pavel Rassudov \u2014 to debate anonymity, access to information and copyright enforcement [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<li>Former IAB chair Olaf Kolkman closed with &#39;Internet Architecture as the Basis of Future Innovation&#39; and received the forum&#39;s internet merit award [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<li>With the blogger-registration law and other restrictions arriving within months, this was among the last editions to feature critical civil society on the official programme [2][5][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. So what did the conference actually decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was a birthday and a policy forum in one: 20 years of .RU, a prime-ministerial video, and debates stretching from cybersecurity to a human-rights lawyer&#39;s critique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How far government and business may reach into user data. A year after Snowden, panellists asserted that online data protection is a basic human right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The .RU story \u2014 a country-code domain growing into an economic backbone \u2014 mirrors every national domain, and the months after this forum showed how quickly an open national internet can be reined in.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Russia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2014-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 About Russia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Russia IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2014 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2014.ru\/en\/\">Russian Internet Governance Forum \u2013 2014\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2014.ru\/en\/prog\/?p=list\">Program of Russian Internet Governance Forum 2014\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2014.ru\/en\/press\/index.html%3Fid%3D38.html\">Marina Nikerova: We have nurtured .RU to maturity\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u30fb\u958b\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2014.ru\/en\/press\/index.html%3Fid%3D39.html\">Dmitry Medvedev congratulates Russian web users on 20 years of .RU domain zone\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rigf2014.ru\/en\/press\/index.html%3Fid%3D40.html\">RIGF participants discuss human rights and cyber security\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u30fb\u9589\u4f1a\u5831\u544a\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u56fd\u5225\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u8abf\u6574\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08Coordination Center for TLD RU\/\u0420\u0424\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 27 June 2014, 11:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 17 July 2026, 12:32 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th Russian IGF met on 7 April 2014 at Moscow&#8217;s Marriott Grand Hotel \u2014 exactly 20 years after the .RU domain&#8217;s delegation, with Prime Mi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,93],"tags":[163,161,160,162,674,164],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-russia-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-russiaigf2014","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}