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Russia: Medvedev's Speech and IT; Twitter and the Police

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 @ 01:08 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

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

Profy writes about the IT dimension of president Medvedev's annual address: “The draft speech was initially published online as a lengthy article by the president and he invited all the citizens to voice their opinions out via the Kremlin official website - and people were definitely very willing to participate given more than 18 thousand comments received.” NetEffect writes about “tweeting your way to Gulag”: turns out that in Russia, “the police are avid readers of ‘the Internet' and particularly of Twitter.”

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