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[Link] Vladimir Putin Explains Why State Media Is Better Than Wikipedia
Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com
“Of course, objective, important, in-depth information that’s been gathered properly and skillfully…this is in great demand,” Putin said, according to a translation of the video by journalist Kevin Rothrock. “And that’s why you can’t just use Wikipedia.
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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.
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[Link] 'Hooliganism': Russian court fines journalist after marathon grilling for three-second on-air protest
Read: 16/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
News editor Marina Ovsyannikova was ordered to pay 30,000 roubles ($390) for flouting protest legislation. It was not immediately clear if she could also face other, more serious charges. Her lawyer was not immediately reachable for comment.
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[Link] Advice on How to Use Telegram Safely
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russian police have started stopping people in the street and scrolling through messages stored on their phone, according to a video uploaded to social media.
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[Link] Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released what it says is 800GB of data from a section of Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body responsible for censorship in the country.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] 'Escape From Tarkov' Players Feel the Squeeze of the Ruble's Collapse
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russia’s currency, the ruble, has collapsed. It’s worth less than Roblox's in-game currency, robux. The economic collapse has also affected the video game Escape from Tarkov, which uses the ruble, euro, dollar, and bitcoin as in-game currencies and uses real world exchange rates within the game.
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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
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[Link] Russian Cybersecurity Giant Kaspersky Tries to Maintain Neutrality During Ukraine War
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
The statement encapsulates the company’s position since Russia invaded Ukraine six days ago—that of attempted neutrality in a war where silence or fence sitting is implicitly siding with the Russian forces.
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[Link] Vladimir Putin Is Worried About ‘Cancel Culture’
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
Watching Putin warn about the dangers of cancel culture of progressive intolerance while throwing his biggest critic in jail is just a more absurd version of what’s become routine in the U.S.
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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order
Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.
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[Link] CEO of Major Anti-Piracy Company Arrested in Russia For High Treason
Read: 29/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Cybersecurity company Group-IB, which for several years has investigated hundreds of pirate sites and their connections to organized crime, is currently in the midst of a huge scandal in Russia.
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