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 […]
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 […]
John Helmer: is the blogger a journalist or oligarchs’ PR Man?
Has John Helmer stayed too long in Russia? So long that he has adopted the country’s journalistic practices? Observers may wonder… John Helmer is an Australian journalist and blogger who has been covering Russian business and living in Moscow for over thirty years. His opinionated articles and blog posts, his cold irony and his numerous […]
Here’s To 2010 And Return To American Conservatism: Not The British Variety!
(Edited) reprint from www.backupamerica.org As the New Year approaches on a new decade in a new millenium, the political landscape in the United States has fundamentally changed, of that there is no doubt. The outrage of the American people on the continuing interventionist War in Iraq in the name of a nebulous War on Terror […]
Disintegrations of TTP or What?
Baitullah Mahsud was killed in US drone attack in SWA on 5th august 2009. He was the single man responsible for creating Pakistan’s deadliest Terror alliance by the name of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan in 2007. After the death of Baitullah Mahsud conflicting statements are coming from TTP circles. Interestingly TTP and government of Pakistan both […]
Russia’s Devastating Downturn
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova In mid-October, Global Voices published a roundup of Anglophone bloggers’ views on the financial crisis in Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine. Below is another installment on the effects and the likely consequences of the crisis in Russia. Edward Hugh of Eastern Europe Economy Watch examines the figures and concludes […]
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