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Russians will get access to electronic services with new ID cards
Russia states that replacement of internal passports with new ID cards would give more than 120 million Russians access to electronic services, Itar-Tass reports. These services might include obtaining...
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New Russian smartphone launches as iPhone-phobia mounts
Amid spying concerns after the revelation of U.S. security agencies’ wiretaps of foreign leaders, Russia is considering making its officials give up their iPhones in favor of a new smartphone made by...
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Chronicles of Euromaidan: digging into the social media
“One morning, after the dissolution of the student protests on Maidan, we woke up in another country,” said Pavlo Pedenko, one of the creators of Maidan Chronicles, as he explained the pretext of the...
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Ukrainian journalists take regime’s corruption public with YanukovychLeaks
YanukovychLeaks.org, a new website created by Ukrainian journalists to publish documents that were found in Victor Yanukovych’s residence. Many of them document evidence of massive corruption of the...
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...
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3 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 ArticleDushanbe suspected in Google, YouTube blackouts
The disappearance of popular Internet services in Tajikistan this week appears to follow a recurrent pattern of foreign websites being blocked by the authorities. On 12 June, Internet users reported...
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...
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Innovators 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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Russian government edits Wikipedia page on Flight MH17
A Russian government official has been accused of editing the Russian-lanugage version of the MH17 Wikipedia page. Malaysian Airline Flight, MH17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, 17...
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