The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers

Evgenia Shikina, Victor Petrichenko In the late 2010s, Russia experienced an increase in Internet penetration: from 25% in 2008 to 53% in 2012. At that time, the Internet was almost unregulated in the country, a truly free space. So, it became a platform to voice political dissent. Civil activists were actively using Livejournal, Twitter, Facebook […]