LiveJournal's Kremlin Links
It’s no secret that Vladimir Putin has been active in promoting the Russian government’s policies on the internet. But the Kremlin’s attempts to dominate Russian-language sectors of cyberspace have taken it into some surprising places.
Like the extremely popular blog/online diary site LiveJournal. Buried in a Washington Post piece on Kremlin PR efforts on the internet was the fact that Putin-linked oligarch Alexander Mamut bought the rights to operate LiveJournal for all Russian-language users. The license, purchased by Mamut’s company SUP, gives them control over all LiveJournal accounts that print primarily in Cyrillic, are located within the former USSR (including the Ukraine, the Baltic states & Central Asia) or use a Russian web browser.
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