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Russian Internet censorship: A journey into the belly of the Kremlin’s media watchdog

February 14, 2016

This summer, for a short while, pages on Reddit and Wikipedia were technically banned in Russia. While the ban targeted only individual pages of these popular websites, roughly a third of Russian Internet providers lacked the tools necessary to block specific content within a site built on the https protocol. As a result the entire Reddit and Wikipedia became inaccessible …

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News aggregator Anews launches app in Brazil

February 15, 2016

Anews, a global news-reading app with a built-in behavioral advertising network, is about to launch its service in Brazil, the company’s press service told East-West Digital News. This Portuguese version is coming in addition to the existing ones in English, Russian, French, Ukrainian and Swedish languages. According to Anews CEO Vyacheslav Masenkov, news aggregators now occupy about 20% of the …

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Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit

February 15, 2016

Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit for its citizens over complaints that the site is hosting information showing how to cultivate narcotics. According to a post from Roskomnadzor (the ‘Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications’) on Russia’s VKontakte (VK.com) social network, the organization has been in touch with Reddit …

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Hundreds of Russian bloggers registered with media regulator

February 16, 2016

Russia’s media watchdog has classified 640 blogs and online communities as equal to the media, making their content subject to certain restrictions, the watchdog said on its Twitter page Monday. Under the law adopted last year, bloggers and Internet users with public web pages visited by more than 3,000 people a day are eligible for inclusion …

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Rambler & Co acquires computational linguistics software company RCO

February 16, 2016

Russian tech media group Rambler & Co has acquired a 51% stake in RCO, a major software publisher and service provider in the field of computational linguistics and unstructured data analysis. No details of the transaction were officially disclosed, but in an exchange with Kommersant Nikolai Davydov of Gagarin Capital estimated that it amounted to …

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YouTube blocks account of Chechen state TV station

February 16, 2016

YouTube has blocked the account of Chechen state television channel “Grozny” from uploading new content because of alleged violations of the site’s terms of service. According to the TV station, YouTube is acting for political reasons. “Given that [YouTube] is a subsidiary of the American company Google, it’s anyone’s guess how the ideology of the content …

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Putin says he supports “minimal” Internet restrictions

February 16, 2016

President Vladimir Putin said he was in favor of only “minimal” restrictions on the Internet, but added that he expected Russian citizens to respond with a forceful promotion of Moscow’s views to any “hostile” publications online. Putin made the comments during a meeting with young IT professionals taking part in the National Education Youth Forum. In the meeting, which was held Tuesday in the Vladimir region, Putin …

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Russian funds Altair and GVA LaunchGurus invest in US startup 1World Online

February 18, 2016

Earlier this month 1World Online, a US startup founded in 2011 by Russian entrepreneur Alexey Fedoseev, announced the completion of an equity financing A2 round of $2.5 million. 1World provides publishers, political candidates, and brands with web and mobile-based engagement applications, content, and analytics. The company claims to have become number 1 in its sector in 2014, winning the …

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US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program: Harvard researchers to discuss online media and politics this week in Moscow

June 22, 2015

This week the Center for New Media & Society will host their colleagues Rob Faris and Bruce Etling from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University for a number of joint events in Moscow. These meetings will take place under the project “Crossing Boundaries with New Media” jointly implemented by the Center and the Berkman Center under the US-Russia …

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Hearst Shkulev Media acquires regional online media network Rugion

June 17, 2015

Hearst Shkulev Media (HSM), a major Russian media group co-owned by Hearst Corporation, has acquired a controlling stake in Rugion, a network of city sites across Russian regions, in a bid to strengthen its existing regional activities. No details of the transaction have been disclosed, but Russian business daily Vedomosti learned from “a source close to one of …

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Russia blacklists LGBT teen online support group

March 1, 2016

A Russian web site that served as a support group for LGBT teenagers has been blacklisted by the authorities and will likely be blocked within the country, news reports said Monday. The site’s name Deti-404 (Children-404), after the online HTTP error message for “page not found,” may prove portentous if Russia’s Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor considers the site to be in violation of a federal law that regulates online …

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