Media
Putting Down the Press
The websites of three opposition newspapers have been shut down. On the night of December 6th, websites for three opposition newspapers suddenly stopped working. The editors believe they were shut down as result of their opposition views.
Dec 8, 2007 | Continued
Boris Nemtsov Speaks His Mind
His Union of Right Forces (SPS) party may still be trying to reach accommodation with the Kremlin, but one SPS founder, Boris Nemtsov, has not let the party’s increasing disillusionment cloud his mind. He speaks out in the English-language Moscow Times editorial. Excerpts: It is disgusting to watch the “Vremya” nightly news on Channel One, […]
Jul 19, 2007 | Continued
WSJ: Putin’s Russia a Fascist State
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens hits various nails on their heads. We are particularly gratified to at last see Putin’s infamous “popularity” not taken at face value in the media. It is a must-read article and we encourage you to share it widely. “For the Sake of One Man” – […]
Jul 17, 2007 | Continued
Conference Report
In the days before the Other Russia conference in Moscow on July 7-8, the Russian media was celebrating the collapse of the Other Russia coalition. It was no surprise that the Kremlin organs that dominate the media here were delighted at the prospect of another election season with no opposition and no accountability. Even the […]
Jul 16, 2007 | Continued
DoS, Nashi, More Illegal Confiscations
More hacker DoS (denial of service) attacks took place against Russian political opposition sites. This time the entire LiveJournal.ru, the most popular blogging site in Russian, was brought down by attacks against the National Bolshevik Party site that is hosted there. Namarsh.ru was also hit again. In our internal review and discussion of the Voronezh […]
Jun 1, 2007 | Continued
Other Russia Websites Under Attack
As of this moment, the opposition websites Kasparov.ru and Namarsh.ru are under a DOS hacker attack barrage of 32 Mbps, rendering them unavailable to the public. This is far from the first time this has happened. In this new BusinessWeek article, Garry Kasparov writes about the increasing importance of the internet in our organization due […]
May 30, 2007 | Continued
Report: Press Freedom Declines in Russia
“The nongovernmental organizations Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists have criticized Russia as among the worst countries in the world in terms of press freedoms in reports released to coincide with the annual World Press Freedom Day. Freedom House ranked Russia 165 out of 195 countries on its press freedom scale, accusing the […]
May 7, 2007 | Continued
Kreisky Forum Honors Politkovskaya
The famous Vienna-based Bruno Kreisky Forum was the host to a 45-minute lecture and Q&A with Other Russia organizer Garry Kasparov on April 26. The subject was “Russia: Six Months Without Anna Politkovskaya,” a tribute to the investigative journalist assassinated in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Kasparov speech highlighted Politkovskaya’s courage and how she inspired […]
Apr 27, 2007 | Continued
Kremlin Extends Control of Media
The New York Times reports today on “increasingly small number of news outlets that are not managed by the Kremlin, directly or through the state national gas company, Gazprom, a major owner of media assets.” At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news […]
Apr 21, 2007 | Continued