Runet (Russian: Рунет), a portmanteau of ru (both code for the Russian language and Russia's top-level domain) and net/network, is a term that refers to Russian-language community on the Internet and websites. The term Runet was coined in Israel in the spring of 1997 by Israeli resident originally from Baku, Azerbaijan[1] blogger Raffi Aslanbekov (Russian: Раффи Асланбеков[2]) and Russian-language aka Great Uncle, an author of the online column Great Uncle's Thoughts.[3][4] Runet was popularized by early Internet users and was included in several dictionaries, including Spelling dictionary of Russian Academy of Sciences, edited by V. V. Lopatin in 2001.