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Because it was all on news at the time. There were no need to leak anything.

Try to dig up the archives of older NTV. The culmination of the war was when Russian army used the Smerch(?) to level the Grozny, capilal of Chechnya, with the ground - along with dozens thousands civilians who hadn't escaped yet. That was actually why the NTV was disembodied by Russian state. The war was used back then to help Putin to win popularity and come into power in what appeared to be a democratic fashion.

Sure, you are +5 Insightful, but in Russia the Communist member Michael Zapolev will no longer be able to get the floor as a speaker for his suggestion to drive a wooden stake into Yeltsin's chest.

You know, this is the second time this week, that I find out about a person dying and someone is making a comment about driving a wooden stake through their heart. - the linked article is about the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, who died on the 23rd of April.

The linked article talks about the Communist Party in the Russian Duma refusing to observe a minute of silence and one of the members, Communist Michael Zapolev also suggested that a wooden stake should be driven through Yeltsin's chest (the guy was hard to kill, he faced death a few times in his life and until the two days ago managed to live through it.)

Personally I feel that Yeltsin made many mistakes, including privatization of national resources that could not be fairly privatized, because they were developed by the entire country, however he never even tried to silence the media, who were quite hateful towards him, unlike Putin is doing right now. The guy might have just been the first and the last truly Democratic President of Russia. The Communist Party was forbidden by Yeltsin and a Communist leader, Zuganov lost to Yeltsin in elections in 96. I think the Communist Party has done more damage to the people of the former USSR than fascists did in the WWII, so I am with Yeltsin on that one, but the new Communist Party members seem to be vengeful little brats, many of them licked Yeltsin's ass while he was in power, and being little sluts that they are it is no surprise they behave like this today.

Back to the topic, I don't think it makes you a great person to make hateful remark about a dead individual based on his politics alone, you are making it personal.

You know, this is the second time this week, that I find out about a person dying and someone is making a comment about driving a wooden stake through their heart. - the linked article is about the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, who died on the 23rd of April.

The linked article talks about the Communist Party in the Russian Duma refusing to observe a minute of silence and one of the members, Communist Michael Zapolev also suggested that a wooden stake should be driven through Yeltsin's chest (the guy was hard to kill, he faced death a few times in his life and until the two days ago managed to live through it.)

Personally I feel that Yeltsin made many mistakes, including privatization of national resources that could not be fairly privatized, because they were developed by the entire country, however he never even tried to silence the media, who were quite hateful towards him, unlike Putin is doing right now. The guy might have just been the first and the last truly Democratic President of Russia. The Communist Party was forbidden by Yeltsin and a Communist leader, Zuganov lost to Yeltsin in elections in 96. I think the Communist Party has done more damage to the people of the former USSR than fascists did in the WWII, so I am with Yeltsin on that one, but the new Communist Party members seem to be vengeful little brats, many of them licked Yeltsin's ass while he was in power, and being little sluts that they are it is no surprise they behave like this today.

Back to the topic, I don't think it makes you a great person to make hateful remark about a dead individual based on his politics alone, you are making it personal.

Do we need new PS3 Index?

One Russian on-line newspaper published data on "iPod Nano 2GB" Index (the one priced in US $150) from Australian Commonwealth Bank - though I can't find Engrish translation. Link to Russian one. In fact, Britain doesn't look all so bad, when compared: Europe in whole is overvalued.

The original article was this one: http://newsru.com/world/10nov2005/strange_names.ht ml. So yes, those are real, but you just copied the article. I actually invented the ones I listed.

I live in Russia, about 1000 km from Moscow. We were hit by network outage, nothing worked (even Slashdot :( ) for about 30 minutes. Number of routes announced by both of our peers was about 700 instead of normal 150000.

But then routes began to appear again! I was amazed, Internet routed itself around damaged segments, packets were routed through Japan (!), Finland and Holland instead of Moscow. The most funny part was when I traced the route to a computer in the next building - it went through Saint-Petersburg :)

I was able to access Slashdot, and most of Russian sites (http://newsru.com/ , http://ntv.ru/ , http://nbc.ru/ not directly affected by outage.

Some of these pictures were taken from news sites (as the last message in this fourum says). See this for example.

So this story may be _partialy_ true.

Gini: it is not the Russians who want their property back in this case. The Russians (as in average people) will get squat, just like usual and just like it should be in all cases like this. It is Putin's friends and people with enough money to count as his friends, so don't give me this BS about Russians getting back at this dude, because if you can read russian, you would go to this news site and would read that the Russians actually see the government's behaviour as at best questionable. Yes, imagine that, the Russians now are questionning the motives behind this arrest.

Still, all of this has nothing to do with the topic. The topic is about copyright infringement in Russia. But this just shows that the problems there are much much deeper than just violations of copyright. The problems are rooted in the behaviour of the people and is reflected in the behaviour of the government.