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Published in: oDRThe future of Russia's i-curtainHot on the heels of a new law establishing a register of forbidden sites, Russian authorities are now promoting a...
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Published in: oDRRuNet: Russia on the Chinese road?A new internet law came into effect in Russia this month. Ostensibly designed to tackle extremist websites, the list...
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Published in: oDRBig Brother, little drones – protestors bewareRussia’s police are starting to use unmanned drones much more often for monitoring street protest rallies, Irina...
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Published in: oDRWhat force (and forces) can the Kremlin use against the opposition?The Kremlin’s nervous reaction to May’s ‘March of the Millions’ on Bolotnaya Square, and uncertainty around a...
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Published in: oDRA near doubling in Russian wiretaps over five years – and that’s only the legal stuff!In a previous article, Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov asked who was bugging the Russian opposition. Here they...
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Published in: oDRThe Kremlin and the hackers: partners in crime?The recent Russian parliamentary and presidential elections were notable for the wide use of cyber attacks on the...
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Published in: oDRThe Kremlin versus the bloggers: the battle for cyberspaceThe Russian authorities became aware of the power of social media late, but have since been making up for lost time...
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Published in: oDRJust business: how Russian technology provides the eyes and ears for the world’s Big BrothersIn December 2011, Wikileaks released ‘Spy Files’, a project revealing details of the burgeoning surveillance and...
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Published in: oDRThe Police International vs Russia’s football fansAs Russia’s largest and best organised ‘horizontal’ community in Russia, football fans have found themselves at the...
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Published in: oDRA face in the crowd: the FSB is watching you!President Medvedev has made much of Russia’s need for modernisation and advanced technology. One project piloted in...
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Published in: oDRThe Russian state and surveillance technologyThe Russian blogosphere has burgeoned into a open-door sanctuary for all strands of political opinion. Predictably,...
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