Alexey Sidorenko · December, 2010

Latest posts by Alexey Sidorenko from December, 2010

Belarus: Users Are Redirected to Fake Opposition Websites

RuNet Echo

Habrahabr-user webdew reports that Belarus users are being redirected to fake opposition websites: gazetaby.in, nnby.in, charter97.in, bchdd.in, belaruspartisan.in, euroradio.in, ucpb.in, svaboda.in. The design of all these websites is the same but the content is completely different...

19 December 2010

Russia: Google Launches Search of Russian Blogs

RuNet Echo

Google launches blogsearch.google.ru, Russian-language blog search service. One of it's functions – to display the most discussed news of the Russian blogosphere. Almost a year ago, Yandex.ru, Russia's most popular search...

13 December 2010

The Sad Fate of Russia's “YouTube Cops”

RuNet Echo

Several police officers have followed in the footsteps of Alexey Dymovskiy, uploading YouTube testimonies of wrongdoings within the police force in the past year. Unfortunately, nearly all have suffered arrests, beatings, firings or criminal prosecution, and justice has never been done.

7 December 2010

Russia: New anti-Corruption Portal

RuNet Echo

Alexey Navalny, Russian investigative blogger, started a new anti-corruption portal “rospil.info,” a wannabe Russian analogue of Wikileaks. The name of the portal means “saw cut” – a term for a...

6 December 2010