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17 August 2008

Internet and South Ossetia Crisis

Written by Renata Avila · Advocacy

During the South Ossetia crisis, many people looked at the most popular Georgian pages to gather information about the situation. Big surprise, sites like the popular forum.ge or liberty.ge were not working and official sites were blocked or hacked.

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15 July 2008

Russia: One Year in Prison for Blog Comment

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Advocacy, law

On July 7, Savva Terentyev, 22, a Russian blogger and musician, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for a comment he posted on Feb. 15, 2007, on the blog of a local journalist Boris Suranov. Below are rough translations of the comment and a small passage from the verdict, as well as an opinion poll on the impact of Terentyev's case on the freedom of expression in the Russian blogosphere.

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18 September 2007

Russian LiveJournal blogger could face three-year sentence

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Russia

The 23-year old Russian blogger, Dmitry Shirinkin, who wrote a fiction story on his blog inspired by the Virginia Tech shooting, could face up to three years in prison (Please...

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