Stories from RuNet Echo from February, 2010
Russia: Police Raid Environmental Organization
Irkutsk [EN] regional portal Babr.ru published [RUS] photos of a police raid [EN] of the Baikal Environmental Wave. The organization is fighting against reopening highly polluting Baikalsk cellulose plant [EN] located on the bank of the Baikal Lake, the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world.
Russia: Another Video Blogger Arrested
Grigoriy Chekalin, a former deputy prosecutor of Uhta region, who published [RUS] a YouTube video where he accused local official in falsification of investigation materials regarding a fire in a local mall, has been arrested [RUS] by the Russian police. Chekalin is being accused of providing false information to investigators.
Russia: Rallies and Arrests
Opposition activist Oleg Kozlovsky writes about the protests that took place in Russia last week. Photographer Oleg Klimov reports (RUS) on the detention of a photography student Natalya Yeryomina at the Jan. 31 rally in Moscow.
Russia: Photos of Deserted “Zenith” Business Center
IZO links to LJ user sd_group‘s summer 2008 photos (RUS) taken inside the deserted “Zenith” Business Center – “that huge 1990s blue-glass building you see when you come out of Yugo-Zapadnaya metro.”
Russia: Anti-Government Protest Covered By Bloggers, Ignored By Media
While the largest anti-government protest in Russia of the past decade is being largely ignored by the country's mainstream media, the blogosphere is boiling with numerous posts on the rally and its possible implications.
Global Voices Launches RuNet Echo Project
I am excited and honored to start the new year with this introduction of a new project RuNet Echo that appeared on Global Voices at the end of 2009. For me, it all started with this exciting post on Global Voices and grew into a rewarding experience of studying and analyzing one of the most complex and often misinterpreted online communities in the world.
Russia: Thousands Protest in Kaliningrad
NewKaliningrad news site published photos and footage [RUS] of the most numerous protest in recent Russian history (from 5,000 to 12,0000 of people participated in the protest) that took place in Kaliningrad [EN]. Protesters demanded the resignation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the governor of Kaliningrad region Georgy...
Russia: Blogger Warns Of Possible Dam Destruction
The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant [EN] in Siberia might not survive the spring, blogger Dmitri Verkhoturov writes [RUS]. He provides pictures of an ice crust spread over the dam barrier. In August 2009, one of the turbines at the plant, the sixth-largest in the world, broke apart [EN], which led...
Russia: Blogger Posts Photos Of Anti-Kremlin Protests
LJ user zyalt posted a selection of photographs from the latest anti-Kremlin protests in the center of Moscow on January 31.
Famous Researcher Talks About Internet in Russia
Alexander Voiskounsky is one of the first scholars who started researching the Internet in Russia. In an interview to Global Voices, Dr. Voiskounsky shared his view on current problems of the Internet research in Russia, described how science can stop hackers and explained why social networks cannot play a significant political role in the country.
