Skype Prepared to Provide Data About its Users to Russian Law Enforcement
The Microsoft Corporation (which owns the internet telephone service Skype) is prepared to store information on conversations and correspondence for six months, in order to provide it, along with user...
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“People Themselves Asked to Shut Down TV Rain”
Russian government regulators are threatening to shut down TV Rain because of fallout from an “blasphemous” poll, run by the channel this past Sunday. TV Rain is Russia’s only independent TV station,...
View ArticleUkrainians Through the Eyes of Russian TV Personalities
Let’s start with the weather. Recently an exotic-looking gentleman has become a permanent fixture on the “Russia‑24″ public TV channel: a catchy checkered blazer, an acid-pink shirt, and a saucy scarf....
View ArticleProsecutor Launches Probe of TV Rain
The prosecutor’s office of St. Petersburg has launched a probe of TV Rain over a poll dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the Leningrad Blockade, the prosecutor’s website reported. The...
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Pussy Riot Attacked with Whips by Cossacks in Sochi
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, along with several other performers, activists and journalists, have been attacked by Cossack paramilitary police while attempting a protest performance in...
View ArticleLenta: To Our Dear Readers From Your Dear Editorial Team…
After their editor-in-chief was forced out for having published an interview with a controversial Ukrainian political leader, the editors and staff of Lenta.ru published this statement. — Ed. Dear...
View ArticleNew Editor-In-Chief Of Lenta.ru: “I Don’t Know Why You Need Me”
Lenta.ru, one of Russia’s most prominent independent news outlets, has had their editor removed after they published an interview with the leader of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector, Dmytro...
View ArticleFrench Journalist Describes Capture by Slavyansk Separatists
The following is a translation of a harrowing account in Gazeta.ru from a French journalist and her cameramen who were taken captive in Slavyansk right at the time Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli...
View ArticleEkho Moskvy Sets New, Restrictive Guidelines For Journalists
Russia’s well-regarded Ekho Moskvy radio station, which has long attempted to maintain political independence despite the increasingly hypoxic climate for dissenting media and pressure from...
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Russian State Media Fabricates Steinmeier Quote Blaming Protesters For Syrian...
Sputnik, a Russian state-owned, English-language news agency, ran a story today claiming that the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, had, in part, blamed protesters and pro-democracy...
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