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· March, 2011

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Stories about Russian from March, 2011

Russia: Voting For The BOBs Blog Award Has Started

RuNet Echo

On march 22, 2011 voting for "The Best Of Blogs" Awards, event annually organized by German media corporation Deutsche Welle, started. The award is getting more popular every year. This happens mostly because the role of blogs and online communities grows, as does their influence on social life.

Written by Marina Litvinovich
Translated by Ekaterina
31 March 2011

Russia: Mapping Bribery Online

RuNet Echo

Anton Nosik shares [ru] a link to RosKomVzyatka (‘Russian Committee for Bribes’), Ushahidi-based platform that allows users to map bribes (both given and taken) anonymously. It's another transparency project after...

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
30 March 2011

Russia: 2010 Cyber-Crime Market Research

RuNet Echo

Group IB, Russian cyber-security research company, publishes [ru] Russian Cyber-Crime Market in 2010 report. According to the research, Russian hackers commit nearly 35 percent of all cyber-crimes. DDOS-attacks (from $90...

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
28 March 2011

Russia: Reaching Out to the President

RuNet Echo

Many projects have been recently created in Russia on the basis of crowdsourcing (or user-generated content (UGC)), when information on any particular topic is collected by internet users. Almost each one of these projects signalizes about a problem. Marina Litvinovich analyzed them and proposed a thesis that the success of these projects depends on their ability to establish their contact with the officials.

Written by Marina Litvinovich
Translated by Ekaterina
17 March 2011

Ukraine: Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl?

The media are increasingly present the situation at Fukushima as the world’s worst nuclear accident since the Soviet-era Chernobyl disaster. This news has hit home in Ukraine, where Chernobyl is located and where memories of the terrible events of 25 years ago are still very much alive.

Written by Tetyana Bohdanova
16 March 2011

Russia: Fukushima Plant Disaster Triggers Nuclear Power Debate

RuNet Echo

The natural disaster unfolding in Japan after the 8.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday 11 March, 2011, is currently the one of the most widely discussed topics in the Russian blogosphere. One of the most worrying impacts of the quake and related tsunami has been at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Here, Russian bloggers discuss the question of nuclear energy.

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
14 March 2011

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