🚀 Russia’s Open Data Portal Relaunch – But With a Twist

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has relaunched data.gov.ru after a 2‑year shutdown.

🔎 What’s new?

The portal now hosts ~5,000 datasets, compared to 24,000+ datasets back in early 2022.

The total size of compressed data is about 100 MB, versus 14 GB in 2022.

Most datasets are small CSV files that haven’t been updated in 4–10 years.

📉 What’s missing?
Before 2022, the portal was often called a “data dump” full of outdated information — but at least there was a lot of it. Now, despite the relaunch, the volume and freshness of data have dramatically decreased.

💡 Our next step:
We’ve made a full dump of the new portal and are evaluating whether it’s worth indexing in our search engine Dateno. Early signs: unfortunately, there’s not much of real value there.

📌 I’ll share a more detailed analysis of the portal’s contents and structure soon. Stay tuned!

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