From Russia, where winters are cold and vodka is the best-known potato product, came news earlier this month that authorities there had cracked down on an environmentalist group, Baikal Environmental Wave, on the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. The Putin government — which is apparently unfamiliar with the concept of Glastnost, or openness, introduced by then-head of state Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s — has reportedly been using the excuse of concern about software piracy to attack outspoken advocacy groups and opposition newspapers over the years.
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The Death of the Silent Majority
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 24, 2010 05:00 AMFrom Russia, where winters are cold and vodka is the best-known potato product, came news earlier this month that authorities there had cracked down on an environmentalist group, Baikal Environmental Wave, on the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. The Putin government — which is apparently unfamiliar with the concept of Glastnost, or openness, introduced by then-head of state Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s — has reportedly been using the excuse of concern about software piracy to attack outspoken advocacy groups and opposition newspapers over the years.