About the Website

The current version of the Presidential website is the third since 2000.

In January 2000, when the President of Russia’s website opened, it looked like this

January 2000 - June 2002

Over the course of 2001-2002, the President’s website underwent comprehensive modernisation and this resulted in a second version, launched on June 20, 2002. On the day the new website opened, President Vladimir Putin met with its developers and with the participants in the competition to come up with a creative concept for the website.

June 20, 2002 - June 20, 2004

A year after the launch of the second version of the website, on June 20, 2003, users around the world were able to access the English-language version of the Presidential website.

since June 20, 2003

A unique new Internet project – “The President of Russia – to School-age Citizens” – was launched on January 19, 2004. President Vladimir Putin met with this website’s developers on the day it opened and talked via the Internet with schoolchildren in the city of Yaroslavl. You can see a dossier about this event here.

since January 19, 2004

This is the site that you are currently visiting. It opened on June 20,  2004, exactly two years after the opening of the previous version of the President’s site, one year after the English version appeared and half a year after the “children’s” site was launched.

The Internet design has changed completely, the structure of the site has partly changed, and new information services have appeared on the server, to make work with the site more effective, and make navigating the site even more informative and entertaining.

The new version of the site was developed in 2004, in the three months since the Russian Presidential elections.

The earlier version of the site (which was opened on June 20,  2003) is also accessible on the web now. The last update was made on June 20,  2004.

since June 20, 2004