Russian PM thanked Finns for shutting down Chechen web site
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov on Tuesday thanked Finnish authorities for shutting down a Chechen separatist web page found on a Finnish server.
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Kazakhstan has blocked access to a  number of opposition Web sites in a move Internet users  condemned on Wednesday as a crackdown on freedom of speech.
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Thai authorities have shut down a political Web site that spoke out against the monarchy, the site's operator said Sunday, in another move to punish critics of Thailand's most revered institution.
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AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere, authorities said.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president.
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Politics: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Lithuania has temporarily shut down the website publishing information on the activities of Chechen rebel leaders.
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(InfoWorld) - From alleged poisonings to organized crime, Russia has been getting a lot of bad press lately. But this time the country -- or at least, the government -- may be in the clear. The string of crippling DDOS (distributed denial-of-service)Â attacks against EstoniaÂ didn't appear to be a coordinated attack by one entity within Russia, wrote Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, in a commentary. Estonia, a former satellite of the Soviet Union with a population of 1.3 million, came under intense electronic attacks around April 27, jamming up commercial and government Web sites. The attacks came as Estonia moved a World War II memorial of a statue of a Soviet soldier, igniting fierce protests. Although Russia was quickly accused, Russian government officials denied involvement. Difficulties in tracing the source of the DDOS attacks left more suspicions than facts. But further analysis throws doubt on whether a single agency alone was involved, given that the attacks came from computers around the world, Nazario wrote. While it is possible to spoof the origin of a DDOS attack, "none of the sources we have analyzed from around the world show a clear line from Moscow to Tallin," Estonia's capital, Nazario wrote. While the Russian government may have not been the single source, there is evidence that a number of Russian-speaking computer gurus may have joined in. Several Russian-language Web forums have information and scripts that would allow others to rig their computers to join in a DDOS attack, which involves sending massive streams of data to a Web site, causing it to crash. The scripts would cause a computer to send data to a Web site. "We see signs of Russian nationalism at work here, but no Russian government connection," Nazario wrote. This week has been fairly quiet, said Hillar Aarelaid, chief security officer for Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team. "We have seen some attacks, but they are quite easy to handle," Aarelaid said, adding the DDOS attacks remain under investigation. Â
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One reactor at a Russian nuclear power  station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no  leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the  Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
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A claim of responsibility for the downing of two Russian planes appeared on a Web site known for militant Muslim comment Friday. The statement, which accused Russians of
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The Lithuanian State Defense Council demanded from secret services on Friday to close the Caucasus-Center website of Chechen separatists based in Lithuania.
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Â· Kremlin sets up 'open' media information centre Â· Outgoing president tackles Russia's tarnished image
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Russia seems to be looking to create a controllable internet independent from the wider web
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Russia has agreed to U.S. demands to close the popular music website Allofmp3.com. The U.S. wants the site closed to fight music piracy, and Russia has agreed to improve its chance of gaining membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Lithuania on Tuesday refused a Russian request to shut down a pro-Chechen Web site that published a $20 million reward for assistance in the capture of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying it cannot take ...
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iTuneski RIP, but more where that came from AllofMP3.com, the UK's second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, has been shut down after diplomatic pressure was piled on Russian authorities.â¦
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Finnish leaders on Saturday expressed their gratitude to the veterans of the Continuation War which ended in a ceasefire in the late summer of 1944.
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Russian call to Finland to block Chechen rebels' web pages comes after proprietor has already shut down The shut-down of the Chechen rebels' Kavkaz Center website, operating out of Finland, was demanded by the ...