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It's a weird situation really. Whatsapp/Facebook messenger and Viber, which are no less popular in this country, are not blocked which begs the question whether these three instant messengers shared their encryption keys with the authorities.

Also, to understand what this country really is, read for instance this. It's a mafia/authoritarian state where money rules and there's no law for those who have no money. Don't even get me started on health care, education and science - which are either semi-dead or completely dead, depending on your point of view.

Not exactly a new development. This is an article from about a month ago talking about the Russian military recruiting veterans to fight in Ukraine that have training on just the type of weapons systems that were used against MH17.

The specific demands (pertaining to elections) to date have been:

1. Acknowledge the results of the parliamentary elections as invalid due to widespread documented fraud, and schedule new elections.

2. Detailed investigation of all frauds reported to date. In particular, Churov, as the head of the central electoral commission openly denying documented instances of fraud, should be fired and investigated for his role in them.

3. The reform of the electoral system with respect to party and candidate registration, such that it enables smaller parties to register without undue burden, and does not provide easy ways to administratively block candidates from standing for elections (e.g. by blatantly refusing to accept signatures in support at the point where any re-collection or investigation would take too long to complete in time for election).

How about the fact that they don't even report crap that actually matters? Perfect example?

http://2006.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2006/01n/n01n-s0 0.shtml

Now... don't ya think that the world might really need/want to know about this? *SIGH* It scares me to death.

Dude.. you better not look at this