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Half a Million visitors

November 4, 2008

Earlier this morning, Siberian Light recorded it 500,000th visitor.

I never imagined, when I started Siberian Light on a whim in early 2004, that Siberian Light would turn out to be quite so popular.
It’s been fascinating experience writing at Siberian Light, and watching Russia slowly change (largely for the worse) over the course of five turbulent [...]

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Back to basics

October 5, 2008

If you’re reading this post on the Siberian Light site, rather than by RSS, you’ll notice things look a little different around here.
The magazine format that I’ve been using for nearly a year now has gone.  In its place is the tried and tested blog layout, powered by the Thesis theme.
Why?  Oddly, although I loved [...]

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Russia blogging roundup (plus other important stuff)

May 5, 2008

The latest, best articles from around the Russia Blogs. Plus a warning about nasty people hacking into your blogs, and details of my Twitter profile.

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New Year, New Look

January 16, 2008

Siberian Light has a new look. Here’s a handy guide to what’s changed.

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LiveJournal sold to Russian company for $30 million

December 4, 2007

LiveJournal, the most popular blog platform in Russia has sold to a Russian company for $30 million.
Although LiveJournal is a global brand, almost 30% of its users are based in Russia, which made it a natural choice for SUP – particularly as Six Apart had already given SUP a licence to operate LiveJournal [...]

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English Russia creator interviewed

December 1, 2007

Browsing the web today I came upon this interview in the International Herald Tribune with ‘Tim’ the creator of the English Russia blog.

“Just imagine how many unknown stories and photos are hidden in Chinese Web sites and available only to a Chinese audience,” he wrote in an e-mail. “So we decided to start [...]

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Russian bloggers expose Gravikol 21 pharmaceutical scam targeting pensioners

November 6, 2007

Russian bloggers unite to stop a pharmaceutical scam, and make 21 million phone calls in the process.

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Denial of Service attack on Russian blogs

June 7, 2007

Neeka has posted translations of a couple of articles about a brute force Denial of Service attack which has temporarily closed down some of the more politically minded sections of Live Journal in Russia:
Just a few hours it was impossible to post messages that contained the following links: “ru_nbp”, “nbp_ru” [NBP is the National Bolshevik [...]

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A couple of new weblogs

June 4, 2007

I spotted a couple of new (well, new to me) weblogs about Russia over the weekend, and thought I’d pass on their details, in case you haven’t seen them yet:

Notes from Russia – Commentary on the Russian press from Ben and Matt, two recent Harvard graduates, with some interesting interplay between the two authors.
db330… russia’s [...]

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More tracking of who is the top dog Russia blog

May 20, 2007

The latest attempt to quantify which Russia Blog is the biggest, bestest and most popular is underway at Krusenstern (the original post is in German – a machine translated English version of the page is here), and predictably provoking controversy beyond belief.
Here are the top five – see if you can guess why I like [...]

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Top ten most commented on posts

May 1, 2007

I was a little bored this morning, so I thought I’d take a quick spin through the archives, to see which were the top ten most commented on posts on Siberian Light.
And, without further ado, here they are, in reverse order:
10. The best books about Russia… on the radio (29 comments)
9. [...]

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Neweurasia interviews Martha Brill Olcott

April 9, 2007

Neweurasia has published its second interview with Martha Brill Olcott – probably one of the best known Central Asia scholars in America today.
The interview is wide-ranging, and covers many of the major issues facing Central Asia today.  Watch out, in particular, for her controversial thoughts on the Andijon massacre.

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Blog conference in Moscow

April 5, 2007

In March, Moscow hosted its first International Conference on Blogs.  Leila Tanayeva was there to represent Global Voices, and has posted an intriguing report.
I was particularly interested in news of an effort to take blogging to the streets of Moscow, so that even those without computers can read the latest blog posts:
Russia has a vibrant [...]

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Digging back through the archives

March 13, 2007

In the space of two days, I’ve been called a “senior blogger” and a “grandfather”.  So, with my arthritis ridden hands, I reached for my mouse and began digging through the archives, so I could reminisce about the good old days at Siberian Light.  Here’s what I was writing about on this day in history…
March [...]

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In Russia’s Blogosphere, Anything Goes

March 7, 2007

While we’re on the subject of analysing blogospheres, you might be interested to check out the Nation’s article – In Russia’s Blogosphere, Anything Goes.
It’s packed with plenty of reminders that the ZheZhe community is politically involved and has had a major impact on the way a number of major news stories have risen from obscurity [...]

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