Russian Opposition

The Great Debate: Navalny, Kuzminov, & Friends

26 Mar 2011

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Roughly a week ago, a muckraking blogger and a scholarly nepotist got together with some other eggheads and talked for nearly four hours about in-the-works reforms for Federal Law 94, which is a beastly piece of legislation regulating government tenders. The law is made up of 65 articles, and has been revised several times since [...]

By: Kevin Rothrock Category: Economic Policy, Personal Observations, Russian Opposition Tags: , , , , , , ,

Whatcha Gonna Do When They Tweet At You? OMON_Moscow’s Public Q&A

10 Mar 2011

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  On January 13, 2011, an anonymous member of the Moscow OMON opened a Twitter account and began regularly posting opinions and factoids related to police work in Russia’s capital city. That Twitter account now has almost 3,000 followers, and the user himself is following 178 other tweeters — most of them high-profile RuNet bloggers. [...]

By: Kevin Rothrock Category: Cultural Politics, Russian Law, Russian Opposition Tags: , , , , , ,
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