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  • Posted By: streetwise @ 03/30/2008 11:21:59 AM

    "Comment: Medvedev's team is already developing laws to regulate russian internet. Pretty soon internet in Russia will start to resemble chinese web."

    I have heard this song so many, many times...

  • Posted By: Ilia_Prahov @ 03/30/2008 9:30:30 AM

    Medvedev's team is already developing laws to regulate russian internet. Pretty soon internet in Russia will start to resemble chinese web.

    Speaking about "political apathy", I don't see any political apathy in Russia. I prefer to call it submission. Russian people have become very submissive to bureaucracy. Civil society has basically died out, and an ordinary citizen feels naked agaist the state...just like in Soviet times.

  • Posted By: Ilia_Prahov @ 03/30/2008 9:30:26 AM

    Medvedev's team is already developing laws to regulate russian internet. Pretty soon internet in Russia will start to resemble chinese web.

    Speaking about "political apathy", I don't see any political apathy in Russia. I prefer to call it submission. Russian people have become very submissive to bureaucracy. Civil society has basically died out, and an ordinary citizen feels naked agaist the state...just like in Soviet times.

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