Communications and Press Minister Igor Shchyogolev said Friday that the proposed U.S. Internet legislation known as SOPA could become a censorship tool and is therefore in opposition to democratic principles. Communications and Press Minister Igor Shchyogolev said in an op-ed published Friday that the proposed U.S. Internet legislation...

Belarus' authoritarian government has further tightened its control over citizens' access to Internet with a new law that obliges service providers to monitor users. Belarus’ authoritarian government has further tightened its control over citizens’ access to the Internet with a new law that obliges service providers to...

Internet company Mail.ru has launched its answer to U.S. microblogging site Twitter, seeking to expand its business into instant social messaging and emulate the success of China's Weibo. LONDON — Internet company...

HSBC Holdings rates Mail.ru Group as one of its "top" stock picks as the Russian Internet company takes advantage of rising demand for advertising in the nation's expanding economy. HSBC Holdings rates Mail.ru Group as one of its "top" stock picks as the Russian Internet company takes advantage of rising...

Shares of Internet company Mail.ru Group could rise as a result of the initial public offering planned by social-networking site Facebook. Shares of Internet company Mail.ru Group could rise as a result of the initial public offering planned by social-networking...

... ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," the company wrote on its blog post, sparking speculation that it is preparing to launch in China, where it has been banned since June 2009. The announcement led to a wave of criticism across the Internet, with many human rights defenders denouncing the move as a devil's bargain with repressive governments that would undermine Twitter's commitment to free speech in an effort to open new markets. They cited a January 2011 blog post in which Twitter...

... history:</b></td><td><p><b>Co-Founder, Owner, Partner</b><br>Magic Vinyl Printing<br>I started the company with my own personal investment and my partner’s. This company sold “vinyl sign printing” over the internet. We took customers orders over the internet and had a vinyl sign printing company, our vendor, send our customers the signs they ordered from their facility. We never had to rely on bank financing and the company was always profitable. I...

Commerce on the Russian Internet amounted to $10.4 billion in 2011, according to media reports — an increase of 30 percent over the previous year — as leading e-commerce websites like Avito.ru saw huge increases in users and turnover....

... all of the country's more than 95,000 polling stations with live cameras. The announcement was quickly ridiculed by opposition members who argued that setting up so many cameras was a waste of money that could not stop fraud and would bring down the Internet because of information overload. But Deputy Communications Minister Ilya Massukh dismissed such fears Wednesday, saying the 200,000 cameras would just add 15 percent to 20 percent to web traffic. "People might feel that the Internet slows...

The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the former Soviet republic's Interior Ministry were put out of action Wednesday as disgruntled Internet users hit back at the government after it shut down a popular file-sharing site. KIEV — The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the Interior Ministry were put out of action Wednesday as disgruntled Internet...

... come to fruition. The Moscow metro plans to introduce Wi-Fi access in a small number of cars as a trial later this year, city transportation chief Maxim Liksutov said Thursday. "Going on the results of the trial, we'll decide whether to expand Internet provision on the metro," he said at a news conference. He did not say how many carriages would take part in the experiment, or which lines they would run on. The possibility of installing Wi-Fi on metro trains was first mentioned by Mayor...

Opposition politicians Gennady Gudkov and Vladimir Ryzhkov said Wednesday that they would seek criminal charges against those responsible for secretly filming them discussing plans for the upcoming protest rally and posting it on the Internet in an apparent bid to discredit them. Opposition politicians Gennady Gudkov and Vladimir Ryzhkov said Wednesday that they would seek criminal charges against those responsible for secretly filming them discussing plans for the upcoming...

... Mobile networks saw traffic leap as much as tenfold at previous demonstrations on Bolotnaya Ploshchad on Dec. 10 and Prospekt Akademika Sakharova on Dec. 24, leaving many protesters and reporters unable to make calls, send SMS messages or access mobile Internet services for hours at a time. But only one of the major networks contacted by The Moscow Times said it would be taking extra measures to ensure mobile access on Saturday. VimpelCom's Beeline network will again deploy a mobile base station in...

The cyber front of Syria's year-old civil war spread to Russia this week as pro- and anti-government bots splashed criticism and expressions of gratitude across the Russian Internet, and Syrian hackers attempted to commandeer the website of a Russian embassy. The cyber front of Syria's year-old civil war spread to Russia this week as pro- and anti-government bots splashed criticism and expressions of...

.... Attorney James Pastore, who is prosecuting the case, said U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe has scheduled a Jan. 19 conference in connection with the case. The Zdorovenins held out U.S.-registered companies Sofeco, Pintado and Tallit as legitimate Internet merchants with web sites that prosecutors said appeared to offer goods and services, U.S. authorities said. They also engaged in a scheme from June 2004 to February 2005 to gain access to accounts of U.S. victims and attempted to transfer hundreds...

... Communications and Press Ministry shortlisted "primarily" Lenovo and Fujitsu to supply some 100,000 personal computers — one for each polling station — as part of the government's effort to allow people to watch elections via the Internet, Deputy Minister Ilya Massukh said. The effort also stipulates delivery of two web cameras for every polling station, but Massukh declined to name the manufacturers. Planeloads from China and Taiwan and truckloads from a Fujitsu plant in Germany...

... cultural or political level. I had never been to the Red October Chocolate Factory, which was kind of a breakthrough place — it had a political meaning even in the 1990s when it was one of the first privatized companies. Now there's Dozhd (an Internet TV station), Bolshoi Gorod — young people running around with great energy and doing their thing. Q: When you were reporting here the Soviet Union was breaking up, and now … A: It's hard not to be crushed when you think about the...

... reaction to widespread allegations of ballot box-stuffing and other voting irregularities in December's State Duma elections. Some experts say the move to live-stream activity around polling stations serves as a strong statement to bloggers and the Internet-savvy who played an important role in whipping up dissent after the disputed ballot preserved a narrow majority for Putin's United Russia in the Duma. Yet skeptics say the camera initiative will fall far short as there are other ways to cheat...

  RUSSIAN SERVICE MOSCOW seeks MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST to work for bbcrussian.com   REQUIREMENTS:   • Ability to write stories for Internet (own and based on international sources) • Native Russian and excellent English • Translation skills • Good editorial judgment • Knowledge of international and Russian affairs • Interviewing skills • Knowledge of social networks • Basic...

... he was ready to meet with them. A group of prominent figures unveiled on Wednesday a grassroots group dedicated to fighting election fraud — and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately declared that he was ready to meet with them. The Internet-based group, the League of Voters, hopes to harness voter frustration over alleged fraud during the Dec. 4 State Duma elections, but analysts said its limited purview and the ideological divisions among its members would prevent it from becoming...