Russia Is Torn Over Push for Use of Cyrillic Web Domains (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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MOSCOW -- The Kremlin has long been irritated by the way the United States dominates the Internet, all the way down to the ban on using Cyrillic for Web addresses -- even kremlin.ru has to be demeaningly rendered in English. The Russian government, as a result, is taking the lead in a landmark shift occurring around the world to allow domain names in languages with non-Latin alphabets.

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