Regional Bloggers Targeted for "Extremism" by Russian Police
Exploding logo of the United Russia party. A still from the video that got a Siberian blogger in trouble with the law. YouTube screenshot.
Regional authorities in Russia are cracking down on local opposition bloggers, persecuting them for alleged "extremism." On November 6, 2013 Andrey Teslenko, a blogger from the Siberian town of Novoaltaisk,announced on his LiveJournal blog [ru] that he was approached by police who questioned him about a video called "Let's remind the crooks and thieves about their 2002-Manifesto," which appears on his page [ru] on the social network VKontakte.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/11/10/regional-bloggers-targeted-for-extremism-by-russian-police/
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