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Russia: “Twitter Against Tyrants”

Friday, October 30th, 2009 @ 02:41 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Russia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Internet & Telecoms, Law, Protest, Software & Tools, Politics
Languages:: English

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Español:	Rusia: “Twitter contra los Tiranos”
Français:	Russie : “Twitter contre la tyrannie”

Oleg Kozlovsky links to and quotes from the text of a briefing held by US Helsinki Commission/Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which included “a few recent examples of how we utilized Web 2.0 to spread information about electoral fraud” in Russia.

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