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LiveJournal Still Rules in Russia
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...
More about Media, Blogging, Censorship, Russia, and LivejournalOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/BWuwTevuGfo/
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