Russian pro-Kremlin Oligarch is reported to have purchased a US blogging site Live Journal. Russians are amongst the largest user base of the firm- 28%. More than 2 million bloggers use the website, but now there is a concern that Live Journal will be censored.
It has been used by many outspoken critics of the Kremlin as I have been writing about previously. Let’s wait and see what happens but I believe Russia is a few steps behind China in censoring the Internet, not the least because Mr. Putin is known not to even own an email account. All can change with the arrival to power of Mr. Medvedev, who is told to regularly read electronic news channels.
Tags: Live Journal, oligarchs, Russia, Web2.0
