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July 26, 2013 07:56 pm GMT

LiveJournal Still Rules in Russia

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Last week, Russian activist Alexei Navalny was arrested for politically-motivated embezzlement charges stemming from his use of a social network to organize public demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin. His platform of choice? LiveJournal.

While the blogging service is long-passé in the U.S., due to a series of PR flubs and the rise of Facebook and Twitter, LiveJournal has remained an intrinsic part of Russian Internet culture.

It's so popular, in fact, that LJ (ЖЖ — pronounced "Zhe-Zhe" — in Russian) has become a proprietary eponym for blogging in general. It's a hub for grassroots reporting of current events in a country where TV is largely controlled by the government. It's a place for political discourse, photos of unlikely subjects and, of course, plenty of cute animals pics. Read more...

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