Kremlin.ru is the official website of the President of the Russian Federation. It was launched in January 2000. Website content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Content

The website publishes all content issued by the Presidential Press Service in Russian and English, including transcripts of President's speeches (e.g., Valdai speech of Vladimir Putin).

History

The kremlin.ru website of was launched in January 2000, and was radically reworked during 2001–2002, which resulted in a second version being released on 20 June 2002, followed by an English version a year later. On 19 January 2004, a children's version was released, called President of Russia – for citizens of school age." Version 3 was released on 20 June 2004, only three months after the 2004 Russian presidential election. Version 4 was released on 31 August 2009, with an English version added on 3 June 2010. The current version 5 was released on 8 April 2015. On 11 May 2010, the site became one of the first three sites in the domain .рф. On 20 July 2012, the site was target of a DDoS attack, and in 2013, the site was blocked in Turkmenistan. On 24 February 2022, the site was intermittently unavailable due to a DDoS attack as a reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.