Both sites are owned by Mail.ru Group, a Russian internet company which operates internationally under My.com. The name “Odnoklassniki” translates to “Classmates” – the social platform was originally created to connect users with old friends and classmates.

What is VK stand for?

AcronymDefinitionVKVirtual Key (computing)VKVodka KickVKVibe KillerVKVaterpolo Klub (Croatian: Water Polo Club)15 more rows

Does .ru mean Russia?

ru is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Russian Federation introduced on April 7, 1994. The Russian alphabet internationalized country code is . ru is assigned to the Coordination Center for TLD RU (CC for TLD RU), the current official registry.