.ru is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain for Russia introduced on 7 April 1994. The Russian alphabet internationalized country code is .рф.
Control of .ru is assigned to the Coordination Center for TLD RU, the current... Wikipedia
Actual use: Very popular in Russia
Intended use: Entities connected with Russia
Introduced: 7 April 1994; 30 years ago
Registered domains: 5,381,137 (January 2018)
Registry: Coordination Center for TLD RU