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<nettime> Russian elections and Internet |
ELECTION COMMISSION CONSIDERS THE INTERNET. "Vremya MN" reported on 26 January that Central Election Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov has said that during the leadup to 19 December State Duma elections, crude violations of Russian election law occurred on news websites in Russia. However, sanctions against sites that violated the law have not been forthcoming because the election law does not adequately address the issue of information disseminated on the Internet. In a meeting with Veshnyakov and online editors, First Deputy Media Minister Mikhail Seslavinskii concluded that the issue is also complicated by the fact that the government would have to learn who is the domain's owner, where the server is located, and other such questions, the website http://www.deadline.ru reported on the same day. The chief editors of http://www.gazeta.ru told "Vremya MN" that "one wants to know how [Veshnyakov] plans to struggle against servers registered in China, America, and Antartica." source: RFE/RL report # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net