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New Russian smartphone launches as iPhone-phobia mounts
Amid spying concerns after the revelation of U.S. security agencies’ wiretaps of foreign leaders, Russia is considering making its officials give up their iPhones in favor of a new smartphone made by...
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Chronicles of Euromaidan: digging into the social media
“One morning, after the dissolution of the student protests on Maidan, we woke up in another country,” said Pavlo Pedenko, one of the creators of Maidan Chronicles, as he explained the pretext of the...
View ArticleThe Caucasus Network: in blogs, Russian is the common language
This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of the North Caucasus blogosphere. Explore the complete report and personal stories on The Caucasus Network page. Russian is the lingua franca that...
View ArticleSo long, Mr. Durov, and thanks for all the fish
This post is part of RuNet Echo, a Global Voices project to interpret the Russian language internet. After more than a year of rumors, the stockholders of Russia’s largest online social network,...
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Youth@Work in Moldova
Youth in Moldova are taking the future into their own hands. It started with the United Nations Development Group’s decision to launch Post-2015 Dialogues on Implementation into 50 countries. Then, the...
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3 ways the Russian government plans to police the web
A new Russian law will go into effect on August 1, 2014, that requires a wide array of websites and online services to register formally with the government. Sites and applications that allow Internet...
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Czech IT potential up and coming among OECD countries
In a presentation at the American Embassy in Prague on 5 June 2014, Lucie Kelblova presented data from the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) as part of the Organisation for...
View ArticleDushanbe suspected in Google, YouTube blackouts
The disappearance of popular Internet services in Tajikistan this week appears to follow a recurrent pattern of foreign websites being blocked by the authorities. On 12 June, Internet users reported...
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Innovators welcome at Deutsche Welle’s Global Media Forum
“Social innovation in journalism and the news media is especially important as information access is rapidly opening up, creating a great potential for participation, social impact, and the eventual...
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Russian government edits Wikipedia page on Flight MH17
A Russian government official has been accused of editing the Russian-lanugage version of the MH17 Wikipedia page. Malaysian Airline Flight, MH17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, 17...
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