Media of Ukraine in 2011 where estimated at USD 400 million, 200% growth compared to 2010. As of 2011, Ukraine ranked 8th among the world's countries with the fastest Internet access speed, with an average download speed of 1,190 kbit/s. According to Freedom House, the Internet in Ukraine is "Free", in contrast to Ukraine's news media as a whole which is considered to be only "Partly Free". Aside from web portals and search engines, the most popular websites are Vk, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook, Livejournal, EX.UA and Odnoklassniki. In May 2017, president Poroshenko signed a decree blocking access in Ukraine to Russian servers VKontakte,
VK (service) Russia. According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 9th most visited website in the world. As of March 2018, VK also ranked as the most popular social networking website in Belarus and Kazakhstan in addition to Russia. VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian limited liability company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name "vkontakte.ru" was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly. In February 2007 the