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'''VK''' (short for its original name '''''Vkontakte'''''; Russian: ВКонтакте, meaning ''InContact'') is a [[Russian Federation|Russian]] social media and social networking service that's based in St. Petersburg. It's available in multiple languages but it's commonly used by Russian Speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video and play browser related games. The app had 500 million accounts as of August 2018. While as of November 2022, it was the 6th most popular website in the [[Russian Federation]]. It was extremely popular in [[Ukraine]] until being banned by the Rada in 2017. According to | '''VK''' (short for its original name '''''Vkontakte'''''; Russian: ВКонтакте, meaning ''InContact'') is a [[Russian Federation|Russian]] social media and social networking service that's based in St. Petersburg. It's available in multiple languages but it's commonly used by Russian Speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video and play browser related games. The app had 500 million accounts as of August 2018. While as of November 2022, it was the 6th most popular website in the [[Russian Federation]]. It was extremely popular in [[Ukraine]] until being banned by the Rada in 2017. According to [[:en:Similarweb|Similarweb]], a [[State of Israel]] web analytics company that specializes in web traffic and performance it was the 16th most visited website in the world. | ||
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VK (short for its original name Vkontakte; Russian: ВКонтакте, meaning InContact) is a Russian social media and social networking service that's based in St. Petersburg. It's available in multiple languages but it's commonly used by Russian Speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video and play browser related games. The app had 500 million accounts as of August 2018. While as of November 2022, it was the 6th most popular website in the Russian Federation. It was extremely popular in Ukraine until being banned by the Rada in 2017. According to Similarweb, a State of Israel web analytics company that specializes in web traffic and performance it was the 16th most visited website in the world.