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Stories from RuNet Echo from June, 2012

29 June 2012

Russia: A Mobile Service to Connect Passengers & Drivers

Written by Teplitsa · Eastern & Central Europe

The mobile navigation service Yeehay! saves time and money finding and ordering taxis, and it benefits the ecologies of smog-polluted Russian cities by bringing together passengers and drivers who otherwise...

26 June 2012

Russia: The War Over World War II

Written by Kevin Rothrock · Eastern & Central Europe

Last Friday, NTV broadcast a controversial film titled, "I Serve the Soviet Union," a film about political prisoners fighting the Nazis only to be murdered by Soviet secret police. The...

23 June 2012

Belarus: Views From the Ground

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Below is a selection of some "views from the ground" - recent posts by Belarusian bloggers about the situation in the country and what it is like for ordinary people...

20 June 2012

Caucasus: Photo Reports by a Belarusian Blogger

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

Russia: Crowdsourcing Project for Finding Missing Children

Written by Teplitsa · Eastern & Central Europe

The emergence of the search and rescue team Liza Alert followed Liza Fomkina's 2010 disappearance in the town of Orekhovo-Zuevo (about 50 miles east of Moscow). Compensating for the government's...

18 June 2012

Russia: Twitter Hashtag Targeting Putin Trends Worldwide

Written by Augis Barkov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Last month, a Russian hashtag was briefly among the top worldwide trends on Twitter. This remarkable hashtag, written in Russian Cyrillic and 30 letters long, has been used to criticize...

17 June 2012

Russia: Interview with Jesse Heath of The Russia Monitor

Written by Kevin Rothrock · Eastern & Central Europe

As an American lawyer and Anglophone blogger writing about Russia, Jesse Heath's work is distinct for its detailed focus on technical aspects of Russian law, economics, and politics. Kevin Rothrock...

Russia: Bloggers Honor Tupac Shakur

Written by Donna Welles · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

15 June 2012

Russia: Death Threats for Journalists and Forgiveness for Officials

Written by Kevin Rothrock · Eastern & Central Europe

A bizarre story involving Russia's top investigator threatening the life of an opposition newspaper's deputy editor, and how everyone reconciled a day later. Kevin Rothrock reports.

11 June 2012

Russia: United Russia Deputy Wants to Sue Navalny for 60 Billion Rubles

Written by Kevin Rothrock · Eastern & Central Europe

Latest developments about wider crackdowns on the Russian protest movement and other campaigns specifically targeting the country's number one blogger.

5 June 2012

Russia: Oppositionists Ponder Putin's Legacy

Written by Masha Egupova · Eastern & Central Europe

With Moscow's next anti-government mass rally scheduled for 'Russia Day' on June 12, 2012, the protest movement reflects on May's 'Million Man March,' which ended in violent clashes between demonstrators...