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The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost.

The ".su" domain dates back to September 1990, a little more than a year before the Soviet collapse. Russia was given the ".ru" domain name in 1994. But, in 2001, in response to pressure from users eager for freer access, registration in ".su" was opened to everyone everywhere.

Read full story: International Herald Tribune

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