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April 6, 2010
Kremlin Control of Russian Internet Rising, OSC Says
Security News
by Steven Aftergood
The Russian-language internet is increasingly subject to control by the Russian government and its allies in the private sector, according to a new report (pdf) from the DNI Open Source Center (OSC). Except for a vocal minority of bloggers and human rights activists, the Russian public is mostly indifferent to or even supportive of government controls on the internet, the OSC report said.
“Over the last several years, pro-government oligarchs have accumulated significant stakes in the leading portals of the Russian Internet [or Runet]. Between them, they own the majority of the most popular Russian social networking sites and the majority of the most popular Russian websites,” the OSC found.
“While media outlets owned by government companies have not yet shown signs of censorship, the leadership and owners of these Russian investment companies are close to the Kremlin and may be willing to cede their business interests to government priorities,” the OSC report said.
...So, for example, “Oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, who is known to cooperate with the Kremlin, owns RosBiznesKonsalting (RBC), which has been quietly gobbling up Russian Internet (Runet) domains, holding 21% of the Runet’s sites, according to its last annual report in 2007, including Loveplanet.ru, the second-most popular online dating service in the Runet.”
NoLandGrab: Ha! Mikhail Prokhorov might own 21% of Russia's internet, but he'll never get his hands on NoLandG...bzzzz...bzzzz...ZZZZZAAAAPPPPP!...мы хотели бы предложить извинения Брюс Ратнер.
Дополнительные покрытия...
Сети ежедневно, Прохоров, цитируемых в докладе разведки США по контролю Кремля Интернет
Не все гласности Михаил Прохоров получил на этой неделе была положительной. "Доклад тайне" опубликовал анализ американской разведки, предлагая Прохоров и другие олигархи помогают получить контроль Кремля Интернета в России.
Posted by eric at April 6, 2010 11:16 PM