Religious group unveils violent anti-Pussy Riot game
Released by a Russian Orthodox youth organization, a new video game explicitly targets the feminist punk band Pussy Riot that became an international cause after its members were jailed for an...
View ArticleMoscow to track subway riders’ mobile phones
Moscow’s metro system will soon be equipped with devices able to read data off people’s mobile phones. The chief of the metro police force, Andrei Mokhov, made the announcement 29 July, Radio Free...
View ArticleAzerbaijani gets jail for dissing bank as corrupt on Facebook
It calls itself “Your Accessible European Bank” and is partly owned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, an institution pledged to uphold democratic values. Thus it was shocking to...
View ArticleBlogger Unveils Sochi Corruption Website
Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny joined the Sochi anti-corruption campaign this week, launching an interactive website outlining what he calls the “true costs” of...
View ArticleUkrainians, Russians on Social Networks: ‘In Case of War, Everyone Will Lose!’
This post is part of our Special Coverage Ukraine’s #Euromaidan Protests. Almost a week after being ousted, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych surfaced in the Russian Federation, while...
View ArticleSerbian bloggers censored for criticizing flood relief efforts
"Don't let them flood you." Image is a screenshot from Twitter. In late May 2014, Serbia was hit hard by flooding in what became the largest natural disaster the region has seen in the past...
View Article3 ways the Russian government plans to police the web
A new Russian law will go into effect on August 1, 2014, that requires a wide array of websites and online services to register formally with the government. Sites and applications that allow Internet...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign to support Russian eco journalists
On 6 June, Transitions launched a new crowdfunding campaign on IndieVoices, Weathering the Storm: The Dangers of Going Green in Putin’s Russia, to raise money for Ecoreporter.ru. As the space for...
View ArticleRussians’ online data must be stored in-country: Duma bill
A bill adopted by the lower house of the Russian parliament 4 July will require Internet companies that store personal data on Russian citizens to locate such data on servers inside the country, The...
View ArticleInnovators welcome at Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum
“Social innovation in journalism and the news media is especially important as information access is rapidly opening up, creating a great potential for participation, social impact, and the eventual...
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