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Stories from RuNet Echo from September, 2016

Life in Russia After Porn

  21 September 2016

A week after Russian censors banned two of the most popular pornography websites around, ordinary Web users are firing back with an online flashmob that mixes satire and protest.

Russia's Pokemon Gulag

  5 September 2016

Ruslan Sokolovksy’s alleged crime was filming himself playing Pokemon Go inside a Russian Orthodox cathedral. If convicted of the charges, he could go to prison for up to five years.

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