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) project in 2017. Only active projects with an earnings model could submit applications. 327 grant applications were received buy only 67 of them passed the initial screening. The total prize pool was 2.5 million rubles. The first VK Cup, a programming championship for young programmers aged 13–23, was held on 16 July 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. VK and Codeforces co-organized the second VK Cup programming championship, which took place from 24 July to 27 July 2015. The winners received a total of 1,048,576 rubles (an amount related to round binary numbers). The third VK Cup took place from 1