Russia
ONI Blog: Russian Communication Minister Criticizes SOPA
Russian communication minister Igor Shchyogolev recently published an op-ed piece in Russian newspaper Vedomosti that condemns the SOPA bill as a censorship tool. Shchyogolev critiqued the business impacts of proposal, saying, "It is impossible to block and censor the...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: December 9, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 09/Dec/2011; tagged in India, Russia, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Russian Websites Come Under DDoS Attack on Election Day
Several Russian websites came under DDoS attack during the country's national elections beginning last week. On December 1, a few political websites were taken down, and in the days following, prominent news portals including NewTimes.ru and the Russian News Service were...
ONI Blog: US Intelligence Report Calls China and Russia Biggest Cyber Espionage Threats
A recently released report by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive labels China the “world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage,” according to the Council of Foreign Relations. The report also calls Russia one of the biggest cyber...
- Posted on 03/Nov/2011; tagged in China, United States of America, Russia, United States/Canada, Asia, Europe, Cybercrime and security
ONI Blog: RusLeaks Shut Down After Releasing Private Information
Wikileaks spinoff anti-corruption website RusLeaks has recently been taken down, RT News reported last week. After an investigation by Russian authorities, it was found that the site published a database that listed citizens' names, passport numbers, and addresses, as well...
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: September 9, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 09/Sep/2011; tagged in China, Iran, South Korea, Russia, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Data retention, Geolocational Filtering, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: August 12, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 12/Aug/2011; tagged in Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, Legislation, Non-filtering content restrictions, Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Privacy
ONI Blog: Yet Another LiveJournal Outage Causes Concern for Russian Blogging Community
Last week, the Russian language segment of the popular blogging platform LiveJournal experienced a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought down service for much of the week. This was the third such attack on the...
- Posted on 04/Aug/2011; tagged in Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), ONI, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Second- and Third-Generation Controls Rise in Russian Cyberspace
As governments in the Middle East have cracked down on Internet traffic outright this year, Russian authorities have expanded their control over cyberspace in a more indirect manner, employing a voluntary Internet patrol group, paid pro-government commentators, alleged DDoS attacks, and a...
Country Profile: Russia
Background
Under Vladimir Putin, the federal government of the Russian Federation (RF) has consolidated its power, stripping regional government representatives of some of their authority. Putin abolished the principle of electing regional heads by regional parliaments and channeled a number of legal...
- Posted on 19/Dec/2010; tagged in Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
