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Russia: Activities of more then 90 NGOs suspended

By fpp ⋅ 20-October-2006 at 8:05 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday Russia has suspended the activities of more the 90 foreign non government organizations (NGOs) including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch, saying they failed new registration requirements recently introduced with a controversial law.
The law that was signed by President Putin earlier this year allows authorities to ban financing of specific [...]


China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)

By fpp ⋅ 16-October-2006 at 17:40 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it.
With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China.
The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible while [...]


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