Robert Eringer, former Monaco intelligence adviser, has faded from the public spotlight since his controversial post as intelligence adviser to Prince Albert II of Monaco ended in a French lawsuit that found him guilty of defamation and suspect of an attempt to extort Prince Albert II. But growing geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Russia […]
Russia: The Early Days of Government Transparency
Written by Sven Hultberg Carlsson “Make your work available online.” It may seem a harmless demand, but in Russia it’s more than that. Such a request led to Alexey Navalny [2], a famed anti-establishment blogger and activist, scrutinizing public procurement contracts to expose shady practices by officials and private companies. Navalny’s project, RosPil [3] [ru], helped earn him the reputation of […]
Vladimir Putin Proposes A “Windfall Tax” To Clean The Crooked Privatization Heritage, Oligarchs
The current Russian premier Vladimir Putin is the overwhelming favourite to beat four attending rivals in a March 4 ballot that should hand him a third term as Kremlin chief. The 59-year-old Putin served as president in 2000-2008 and then as premier for the past four years before deciding to swap jobs with his hand-picked […]
Russia: The Fake Political Twitter Account Phenomenon
Written by Alexey Sidorenko The Internet not only gives life to citizen activist groups, human bots or lolcat [1] lovers; online anonymity provides perfect conditions for human creativity and humor. Twitter is possibly the best platform for this quality, and in the Russian context this involves mixing anonymity, humor and political reality via a number of […]
Russia’s Security Service Clamps Down on Skype
By Ashley Cleek While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urges government officials to get hip to technology, the FSB (Russia’s Security Service) has begun to clamp down on officials’ use of email and Skype to stop – some argue – possible ‘leaks’ of governmental information. Last week, the Russian newspaper “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” (NG) ran an article that the […]
Georgian Cyber Wars: Blog Disappears After Charges Against Russia
User Cyhymu (Georgiy from Georgia) dropped out again from my friends list at Livejournal.com. It’s not surprising to me. His blog “Remembrance on Suhumy, War and Pain” had been blocked several times last year. Each time he restores it from scratch and re-uploads full archive on first military conflict in his native town Sukhumy, which […]
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