Opinion" estimated the number of Russian Internet users as of winter 2011-2012.

About half of Russian citizens are Internet users.These data led to the conference " change the consciousness of a" representative TNS Gallup Inessa Ishunkina , writes in his blog, media manager Anton spout .According to TNS Gallup, in April two thousand and twelve used the Internet seventy.eight million Russians, over twelve years ( at the beginning of the year the country's Federal State Statistics Service counted more than one hundred and forty-three million inhabitants).Among the audience sovershennoletnihgrazhdan Network covers sixty-four million people, two thirds of them live in cities with populations over one hundred,zero people.The rate of growth of Internet audience in Russia are at around twenty-seven percent per year ( in small towns and rural areas - forty-nine percent in big cities - fifteen percent).At the same time fifty-three percent of Russians have three or more points of access to the Internet.In this regard , the number unikalnyhpolzovateley in statistics compared to the number of "live" hosts: currently observed ratio of five.seven : one.During the day thirty-eight.thirty-nine million Russians visited social networks , and only four.one million are registered in only one of them (leadership on this parameter holds the " Twitter ").The daily audience of search engines is twenty-seven.ninety-four million people, news resources - eight.sixty-seven million , blogs - five.seven million online shops - five.zero million.People over forty-five make up the majority of those who do not use the Internet.Previously, the Fund "Public Opinion" estimated the number of Russian Internet users as of winter two thousand and eleven-two thousand and twelve.According to the FOM , at least once a month in Network fifty-seven.eight million Russians out , and the daily audience of the Internet in Russia is forty-four.three million.