<nettime> Russian elections and Internet

["Drazen Pantic" <drazen.pantic@nyu.edu>]

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 


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