Isaac Webb
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Russia’s Parliament Went on a Censorship Binge Today
The Kremlin is cracking down on online anonymity. Again. → Read More
Russia’s Parliament Went on a Censorship Binge Today ·
The Kremlin is cracking down on online anonymity. Again. → Read More
‘Who Has the Most Selfies?’ Council of Bloggers Meets for First Time in Russian Parliament ·
"I have more than ten thousand ," firebrand politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky joked. "Who has more than me? No one!" → Read More
Russian Crooner Joins Effort to Attract Tourists to War-Torn Eastern Ukraine ·
Nearly three years into the war in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics are making a renewed attempt to attract foreign tourists to their Russian-backed statelets. → Read More
Ukraine Sanctions VKontakte, Other Russian Social Media Websites
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed an order instructing the country's Internet providers to block several major Russian social media websites. → Read More
Ukraine Sanctions VKontakte, Other Russian Social Media Websites ·
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed an order instructing the country's Internet providers to block several major Russian social media websites. → Read More
Who’s Paying for the Meme War Against Alexey Navalny?
The scheme comes in the wake of news about a major mudslingling campaign that the Kremlin was reportedly planning against Navalny. → Read More
Who’s Paying for the Meme War Against Alexey Navalny? ·
The scheme comes in the wake of news about a major mudslingling campaign that the Kremlin was reportedly planning against Navalny. → Read More
Nyetflix and Dill: Putin Signs Law Regulating Foreign Online Streaming Services ·
Netflix and chill is looking more like Nyetflix and dill in Russia after Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that restricts foreign streaming services' access to the Russian market. → Read More
The Kremlin Is Worried Attacks on Opposition Leaders Are Making Them More Popular ·
Days after Alexei Navalny was again doused with green antiseptic, the news website Gazeta.ru reported that the Kremlin had instructed regional authorities to crack down such attacks in the future. → Read More
Russia Blocks Walkie-Talkie App Zello As Truckers Strike
Russia's media regulator has announced plans to block Zello, a mobile push-to-talk app that Russia's long-haul truckers are using to organize protests—including to coordinate an ongoing three-week strike. → Read More
Russia Blocks Walkie-Talkie App Zello As Truckers Strike ·
Russia's media regulator has announced plans to block Zello, a mobile push-to-talk app that Russia's long-haul truckers are using to organize protests—including to coordinate an ongoing three-week strike. → Read More
Facebook Among First 100 Companies to Pay Russia’s ‘Google Tax’ ·
On Sunday, the Russian newspaper Vedemosti reported that Facebook will pay the so-called "Google tax," an 18 percent value added tax (VAT) on foreign companies selling electronic content. → Read More
Brazen Murder in Kiev Chills Russia’s Dissidents in Ukraine
The assassination of Putin critic Denis Voronenkov has Russian exiles wondering who's next on the Kremlin’s hit list. → Read More
Ukraine Will Blacklist Websites That ‘Undermine Ukrainian Sovereignty’
The list, like Ukraine's new Information Security Doctrine, is directed at countering the dissemination of pro-separatist and pro-Russian information. → Read More
Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Watchdog Catches MPs Casting Multiple Votes, Again ·
Knopkodavstvo, or button pushing, as the tactic is known, has plagued voting in Ukraine's parliament for years. → Read More
Ukrainian Social Media Users Get Five Years in Prison For ‘Supporting Separatism’
The two men were sentenced to five years in prison by a Sloviansk city court for threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine. → Read More
Ukrainian Social Media Users Get Five Years in Prison For ‘Supporting Separatism’ ·
The two men were sentenced to five years in prison by a Sloviansk city court for threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine. → Read More
Website That Published ‘Yanukovych Blog’ Says It Was Fake ·
Little more than two weeks after first appearing on the news website Korrespondent, a blog purportedly written by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been deleted by the publication's editors. → Read More
The Best and Worst of Russia’s New Year’s Laws
Every year, the Russian State Duma schedules laws to come into effect on January 1st. RuNet Echo marks the highlights and lowlights of the 2017 New Year's laws. → Read More