Russia: Bashkortostan President Meets Loyal Bloggers · Global Voices
Alexey Sidorenko

JournalUfa comments [RUS] on the recent meeting of Rustem Khamitov, the new president (governor) of Bashkortostan republic, with the bloggers. Only loyal bloggers were allowed to come, plus several controversial moments were cut from local TV-coverage, blogger petroffvalerij claims [RUS]. In general, Bashkortostan-based community expressed confusion [RUS] about this attempt to establish direct contact between the regional government and the netizens.