· February, 2010

Stories about Russia from February, 2010

Russia and US to Broaden Collaboration Online

RuNet Echo

Vesti.ru wrote [RUS] about the visit of the U.S. “innovation delegation” [EN] led by America's Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra [EN]. The plans of the Russian-U.S. cooperation include launching e-government...

26 February 2010

Russia: Government Supports Blogger School

RuNet Echo

Gov-gov.ru blogs [RUS] about a new online initiative: government-sponsored blogger schools that emerge in Tomsk (Siberia) [RUS] and Dagestan [RUS]. The Dagestan region has one of the lowest Internet penetration...

24 February 2010

Russia: PM's Figure Skating Comment

The Ivanov Report analyzes the Western media response to the Russian prime minister's “Vancouver Olympics quote/misquote” and concludes: “Attaching his name to a piece of ‘analysis’ helps sell this questionable...

24 February 2010

Russia: “Merry Gnome”

RuNet Echo

IZO links to LJ user postoronniy-cb‘s post (RUS) and writes: “When prez Medvedev visited Omsk recently, a sign advertising a play for children called We Await You, Merry Gnome was...

23 February 2010

Russia: Media Portal Undergoes Check For Extremism

RuNet Echo

The war on extremism became a universal formula used by Russian authorities to fight the freedom of online expression. Interestingly enough, this practice co-exists with ambitious projects of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to modernize the country.

21 February 2010

Russia: Torrents.ru Is Suspended

RuNet Echo

The major Russian torrent (files exchange) service torrents.ru has been suspended due to investigation of copyright violations, RIA Novosty reported. The service continues to work via another domain.

19 February 2010