21 June 2004 01:41
Kremlin`s web site updated to appear "more modern, logical and user friendly"
Moscow, 21 June: Russian civil servants will now be able to find out about their appointments from the Russian
president's official web site. A relevant section, which contains information on appointments made by the head of
state and ordered both chronologically and alphabetically, is part of the Kremlin's updated web site -
www.kremlin.ru.
The head of the Internet department of the President's Press Service and Information Directorate, Mikhail Buben,
told journalists that the web site's other sections had also been updated. Although the site has on the whole
preserved its structure, the Public Addresses section, for example, is now divided into 10 blocks, making it easier for
the user to find this or that statement by the president. Other sections have also been modernized: the Events section,
which publishes information on the events attended by the head of state; the Documents section containing all the
normative acts signed by him; the Priorities section, dedicated to the main directions of state policy, has been amended
to include the latest address by the president to the Russian Federation Federal Assembly. The Institutes section on the
structure of the Kremlin's administration and the Attributes section on the institute of presidency in Russia have
been expanded.
As before, the site is about the head of state and not a specific person holding the post of president. The updated
web site, nevertheless, does contain personal pages of Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin. There are excerpts from their old
interviews on nonpolitical issues. The photo album, traditionally popular among users, now contains new photographs.
There are links to the children's and English-language versions of the site as well as to a page from which one
can do a virtual tour of the Kremlin, and a link to the site of the Victory-60 organization committee.
The most significant difference between the old and updated versions of the web site is in appearance and structure.
While the dominant colour on the Kremlin's web site used to be blue, it is now red. As for the structure, the new
version appears to be more modern, logical and user friendly.
The president's press service notes that the changes were motivated first of all by the need to be up to date
and not by the desire to increase the number of users. According to the head of the Press Service and Information
Directorate, Natalya Timakova, "since the site is primarily a source of information, it is more important for us to
have a constant core of users than to increase the number of hits". The audience of the president's Internet
web site has been stable over the past year: having reached the level of 30,000 visitors a day, it has maintained that
level to this day.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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