Andrei Simonov, president of the Glasnost Defense Foundation, which advocates for press freedom, said current laws give authorities plenty of ways to punish bloggers and online journalists. “Extremism here is defined as any disagreement with the leadership in a more extreme form,” he said. But Pavel Danilin , editor of Kreml.org and an analyst with the Effective Politics Foundation, a pro-Kremlin think tank, noted that the Russian-language Internet already harbors far more radical content than... read more
