Moscow

Russia has stopped the acquisition of a company by Internet search giant Google. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) blocked Google from acquiring Zao Begun, a text-advertising and contextual-search company owned by Rambler Media. Zao serves more than 143,000 Russian-language Web sites.

“Moscow waited for almost 24 hours, during which Georgian artillery and planes were sending the capital of South Ossetia to ruins. Almost 1600 people were killed in the shelling. Now it is being presented by the mainstream media exclusively as Russia's intervention and expansionist policy.” --Centre for Humanitarian Programmes, Republic of Abkhazia

???Moscow waited for almost 24 hours, during which Georgian artillery and planes were sending the capital of South Ossetia to ruins. Almost 1600 people were killed in the shelling. Now it is being presented by the mainstream media exclusively as Russia's intervention and expansionist policy.??? --Centre for Humanitarian Programmes, Republic of Abkhazia

Long gone are the days when vital defense, financial and energy systems could be protected simply by locking doors and checking nametags. As cyberspace has spread, governments and institutions have adapted accordingly, relying on vast Internet-based networks to serve as the central nervous system of the country's most critical infrastructure.

Michael Gorbachev in the New York Times:

The Vendyak

Justin E. H. Smith

The Vendyak

Justin E. H. Smith