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Coal entrepreneurs shamelessly engage in grabbing the lands that are rich in coal, digging up nearby forests, ruining people’s houses. I’ve been to many corners of Donbas, but I haven’t seen such unabashed criminal dictatorship anywhere before.
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Everything is done absolutely openly. Neither the authorities, nor the law enforcement react to it. The looting of the bowels of the earth goes on as if no state exists at all, and everyone is digging up coal wherever they feel like it.
Full Story here: Fighting “Blatant Criminal Dictatorship” in Ukraine’s Coal Mining Region

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Bribr [ru; App Store, Facebook] is a newly-launched iPhone/iPad app that allows anonymous users in Russia to submit the locations and the amounts of the bribes they pay. Later, it will be possible to report on the bribes taken as well.

Bribr [ru; App Store, Facebook] is a newly-launched iPhone/iPad app that allows anonymous users in Russia to submit the locations and the amounts of the bribes they pay. Later, it will be possible to report on the bribes taken as well.

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11 Areas of Russian Election-Related ICT Innovation

Сrisis can be a fruitful time for innovation. In Russia, post-election protests have given birth to dozens of new web platforms and mobile applications.

Below is a list of 11 innovative ICT areas of 2011-12.

Click here to explore them further:

  1. Non-political coordination platform and an opposition hub
  2. Production of protest symbols and content 
  3. New forms of protest and protest coordination
  4. Alternative system of election monitoring (from offline to online)
  5. Election monitoring activism (from online to offline)
  6. Coverage of the protests
  7. Transparency for the opposition and engagement in decision-making
  8. Hacked e-mails 
  9. Real-time help
  10. Accountability tools
  11. Tools of political promotion

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Controversial Kyrgyz ex-presidential candidate claims Russian Prime Minister Putin is a "complex bio-robot”

Bloggingheads.tv talks to Global Voices RuNet Echo Editor Alexey Sidorenko about the Russia elections and subsequent demonstrations.

See Global Voices special coverage on Russia Elections 2011.

One day, your child will ask you, Papa, what were you doing when the crooks and thieves were robbing our country blind?
Text from one anti-government flyer from the Russian protests (via Global Voices Advocacy)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gets booed onstage in the run-up to the country’s elections.

“…this public display of animosity towards him is perhaps the first of its kind during this election season, and it is remarkable because Putin’s Russia has seen only a handful of incidents where the media captured a story that truly caught Putin off guard.”

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The Russian radical feminist band ‘Pussy Riot’ has dedicated its debut song to the Arab Spring, featuring “Egyptian air is good for lungs,” “Make Tahrir at the Red Square”, “Feminist whip is good for Russia” and other provoking slogans.

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Competing for the Title of Russia’s Super Grandma 2011

A total of 105 Russian babushkas (grandmas) all over 50 years old have applied to compete for the titles of Moscow’s most elegant, modern, smart, business minded, creative, artistic and cheerful grandmother…

Find out more

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LJ-user dedmaxopka publishes [ru] pictures of himself placing a pirate flag on the top of the Novosibirsk city administration building. “We just wanted to make nice pictures of the city,” explained the blogger to the police that identified him the same day. The blogger was charged with ‘petty hooliganism’ and had to pay a small fine.

LJ-user dedmaxopka publishes [ru] pictures of himself placing a pirate flag on the top of the Novosibirsk city administration building. “We just wanted to make nice pictures of the city,” explained the blogger to the police that identified him the same day.

The blogger was charged with ‘petty hooliganism’ and had to pay a small fine.