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· July, 2010

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Stories about Russian from July, 2010

Russia: A governor in the gaul?

LJ user bobasta discusses [RUS] ongoing speculations if it really was the governor of Saratov, Pavel Ipatov, who was caught by Italian police on a yacht in the Mediterranean last...

Written by Vilhelm Konnander
18 July 2010

Belarus-Georgia: Relations reawakened

LJ user sukhumi1 discusses [RUS] a thaw in relations between Belarus and Georgia after an interview with Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was sent on Belarusian state television earlier this week.

Written by Vilhelm Konnander
16 July 2010

Russia: Collection of Online Ideas

RuNet Echo

Blogger fritzmorgen published [RUS] a collection of ideas gathered from various Russian bloggers. Most interesting ideas include: Russian laws put into Wiki-like engine [RUS], several implementations of ‘Taxi 2.0′ idea...

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
15 July 2010

Russia: Priest's Blog Hacked

RuNet Echo

While police denied to start investigation [RUS] of the hack attack of Maxim Sviridenkov's blog [EN], one more blog had been hacked [RUS]. This time the victim of “Hacker Hell” (alleged Bonn-based...

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
14 July 2010

Russia: New Election Codex Project Discussed Online

RuNet Echo

Last month, a Russian non-governmental election-monitoring organization, Golos (A Voice), published an alternative Election Codex on the internet, that is designed to provide free, fair and transparent elections in Russia. It is one of a few recent examples of publicly developed draft bills that are promoted online.

Written by Alexey Sidorenko
14 July 2010

Russia: Picnic at Putin's dacha

LJ user na6ludatelb tells about [RUS] a visit to Putin's old dacha outside of St. Petersburg, forming into a crowd of local dacha owners using their right to public property,...

Written by Vilhelm Konnander
13 July 2010

Russia: Military serfdom

LJ user brumm thinks [RUS] that the generals have enough serfs as it is, reacting to Ministry of Defence ideas of expanding Russian military service from one to one and...

Written by Vilhelm Konnander
13 July 2010

Russia-Belarus: Godfather of refused offers

Is it a deliberate provocation, a government-engineered attack on a foreign head of state, a gas-giant's attempt to rock Russian foreign policy - or simply an example of good and critical journalism? Questions abound in the Russian-language blogosphere following Russian TV-channel NTV's 4 July screening of "The Godfather" - a documentary about Aleksandr Lukashenko, omnipotent president of neighbouring Belarus.

Written by Vilhelm Konnander
8 July 2010

Kazakhstan: Bloggers’ Summer Pessimism

Summer is predominantly a dead season for the netizens around the globe. Kazakh bloggers keep on writing – providing less citizen journalism, but producing broader insights. Isabekov opines on the...

Written by Adil Nurmakov
7 July 2010
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