... his official remarks. "Notably, all the edited videos were distributed from a single server based in the United States, California," Markin said. He didn't elaborate but added that Russian law enforcement is searching for those responsible. YouTube and blogs were flooded with footage shot by people who said the images were eyewitness accounts exposing numerous cases of election fraud all over Russia during the Dec. 4 vote. Official results showed that United Russia picked up 45 percent of...

A schmaltzy music video hailing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russia's savior became a hit on the Russian Internet on Tuesday, with many bloggers and YouTube users poking fun at the song's hyperbolic lyrics. A schmaltzy music video hailing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as Russia's savior became a hit on the Russian Internet on Tuesday, with many bloggers and YouTube users poking fun at the...

... protests. In December, Nemtsov was forced to apologize to ecology activist Yevgenia Chirikova, after the Kremlin-friendly Lifenews.ru tabloid portal published telephone conversations in which he called her a bitch. One month later, a video surfaced on YouTube showing Ryzhkov talking to State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov in a restaurant. The conversation is barely audible, but state-run Channel One TV said both were plotting to take over Gudkov's A Just Russia party, which has gradually moved from being...

... before the Duma elections, criticizing it as a Western-sponsored organization. "Professiya – Reportyor" complained of censorship last month after a segment covering the opposition protests was banned from broadcast. It later appeared on YouTube. NTV did cover an opposition rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad on Dec. 10 that drew 30,000 to 80,000 people after news presenter Alexei Pivovarov refused to work without its inclusion. 170907 179742

... that its presence would not "add value," given the limited freedoms and lack of political competition. Russian television channels, picked up by satellite dishes, are a rare connection with the outside world in a country where Facebook and YouTube are blocked. After winning the last presidential election in February 2007, Berdymukhammedov began gradually dismantling the often bizarre cult of personality around Saparmurat Niyazov, the country's first post-Soviet leader, who died of a heart...

... him four puppets, including a Fraggle, for his museum. Kermit previously visited Moscow in 1984 with singer John Denver. The pair went to Spaso House, the U.S. ambassador's residence, and gave a concert to hundreds of children. It was viewing this on YouTube that sparked the idea. If the embassy could bring Kermit over in Soviet times then surely the new Ambassador Michael McFaul could do the same. Russian state media has gone rabid since McFaul's arrival, accusing him of being the opposition's puppet...

... rally and posting it on the Internet in an apparent bid to discredit them. The video of Gudkov, a State Duma deputy with A Just Russia, and Ryzhkov, of the Party of People's Freedom, was filmed at the Akademia cafe near the Duma and was uploaded onto YouTube on Monday. The footage only came to the attention of bloggers on Wednesday. Titled "Split of the Opposition, or Where Rzhavy Gudok Calls" — a play on the politicians' last names that can be translated as "a rusty horn"...

... suggestions that Yakemenko, whose official salary was 1 million rubles ($33,000) per year in 2009 — the latest available figure — was considering buying apartments worth over 30 million rubles and a stereo system worth 1 million rubles. A YouTube video of socialite Ksenia Sobchak scolding Yakemenko for dining at a swanky Moscow restaurant went viral in October and raised questions about how his agency, which controls Nashi and other pro-Kremlin groups, was spending money allotted for youth...

... Massukh said the servers will have a total disk capacity of 5.4 million gigabytes, or double what major international telecoms operator AT&T uses per day. About 247 years' worth of video footage will be filmed by the cameras throughout the day, dwarfing YouTube's daily average upload volume of about four years' worth of video. 175768 179742

... got filled with jokes like that and also photoshoped cartoon images of Putin. There was even an online music video competition with cash prizes. The song "Our Madhouse Votes for Putin" came in as the winner with more than 1 million views on YouTube. Internet pranksters had a field day on Thursday when the Putin campaign team launched the site putin2012.ru. The site presents the candidate's draft program, with the final version set to be released in February. The text is an abridged version...

... Dolan wrote in a scathing 2002 critique in The Exile, then an alternative Moscow newspaper, that he would "like to spit in McFaul's face" for belittling the first Chechen war. On Friday, McFaul introduced himself to the Russian public in a YouTube video that portrays him as a family man who developed an interest in U.S.-Soviet relations back when he grew up in Montana. "I believe my most important mission is to continue to help Russians understand who Americans are, what we stand for...

... and we and our equipment got really cold,” Pussy Riot said. “But this angered us even more, so the girls screamed so furiously that the policemen were scared to come up to us at first.” The video of the performance became an instant YouTube hit, while the blog entry containing photos and links to the videos, lyrics and the group’s commentary received more than 1,100 comments. “As we saw from the responses to our video, many Russian citizens want Putin to get scared once...

... critic, and vocal Kremlin critic, Artemy Troitsky; and a group of paratroopers whose anti-Putin ballad has gone viral on the RuNet, collecting over 1 million views since it was posted Jan. 26. Watch a video of the group performing the song below, or on YouTube , where there is a decent translation of the lyrics into English. They say, addressing Putin, “You’re a typical bureaucrat—not a tsar or God,” and lambast Putin for his joke last year about protesters’ white ribbons looking like condoms. 10:54...