Russia’s Second Life Democracy

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Instead of restricting web access, the authorities are rather choosing to compete in cyberspace: getting politicians to tweet, building up a cadre of pro-regime bloggers, paying unaffiliated bloggers to attack an out-of-favor politician, developing a “sovereign Internet” with national search, Cyrillic domains, and a government email project.

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