Uber Taxi call serviceUbercame to Russia in late

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2013, but until autumn 2014 it offered only premium services. In the summer of 2014, the premium service Uber Black was launched in St. Petersburg, and in the fall of this year, the company launched economy class services in Moscow. After that, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Transport Alexander Starovoytovwrote a letterto President Vladimir Putin with a request to ban Uber from operating in Russia, since “Uber has already collapsed national taxi markets in more than 50 countries.”

Secret


At the end of May, an American anonymous social network started taiyuan mobile phone numbers database operating in RussiaSecret, which immediately collected all the rumors and gossip of the Runet, but quickly lost popularity.

Site of the year
Navalny's Red Button Sites
In 2014, Roskomnadzor blocked Alexei Navalny's blog on LiveJournal. The oppositionist's supporters began creating "mirrors" of the blog, but the agency blocked them too. Then a specialpage with red button — when you click on it, you are redirected to one of Navalny’s unblocked blogs.

A similar website was created when Facebook blocked the page of the rally in support of Navalny on Manezhnaya Square on January 15. Roskomnadzor immediately closed access to the page, although it did not contain any calls for unauthorized actions. Supporters of the oppositionistcreated another website, which did not say a word about the January 15th action, but played a recording of the song "Meeting on Manezhka" by the group "Kombinatsia" in the background. Access to the site was also blocked.



Splitting of Habr
"Habrahabr"split upinto two separate projects. On the websitehabrahabr.ruall professional "hubs" remained, and all the rest were transferred to the new sitegeektimes.ru.

Russian Zen
The most popular sites at the end of 2014resources became, which show real-time changes in exchange rates and the cost of oil. As the ruble fell at a tremendous rate in December, ordinary pages with numbers on the screen looked truly exciting. The first website created was "Russian Zen, senseless and merciless", and after that, similar pages began to appear almost daily - some with erotic videos in the background, some with falling buckwheat.