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Selection of recent writings (mostly 2006-2008):

On media, Internet, technology

Citizen war-reporter? The Caucasus test

An Army of Ones and Zeroes

The Kremlin’s Virtual Army

Russia/Georgia: War of the Web

Russia: Ideology Becomes a Mash-Up

The Brave New World of E-Hatred

Blog Standard: Politics on the Web

The Right to Blog: Freedom's Next Frontier

Leaks and Lawsuits

The Battle for Wikipedia's Soul

A Bag Full of Sunshine

Cats, Mice, and Handsets

Internet Piracy is Good for Films

A Russian Oligarch Faces "the Streisand Efffect"

Welcome to Russian Consumer Democracy

Internet Piracy is Good for Films

Robot Swarms Invade Kentucky

Bono Meets Einstein in the Kitchen

Redesigning the Dinasour

More Hate, More Love, More Everything

Forget Web2.0, Say Hello to Web3.0

Hillary, 1984 and the Future of Copyright

How Borat Exploited Google

Russia’s Last Refuge: Blogosphere

Next, Lonelygirl15 kills some myths

Investment Spam Scams Work; What Should We Do About Them?

Passport Puzzle

Europe Slips a Disk

Belarus' Denim Revolution Will Not Be Televised

YouTube and Democracy Promotion (subscription required)

Blogs in Belarus Boost Human Rights

 
On politics and foreign policy

A Dictator Comes A-Calling

A New Gas War Looms, with Belarus the loser

Russia's New Recruits

Putin's Energy Strategy

From No Nukes to New Nukes

I'm EU, You're EU

Trouble in the Pipeline

The Paranoid Manifesto

Turkey Plays Chicken

NATO's Evil Twin

Europe's Weakness for Russia

The EU's Power Crisis

Belarus: A Dangerous Place for Politics

Trade Tyranny

Gas Pains

After the Fraud

Belarus: Joining the Axis of Evil Instead of the EU

Putin and Merkel as Soul Mates (subscription required)

On society and culture

How I Learned to Stop Worrying about New Media Literacy and Love the Internet

The Triumph of the Nerd

Stroke Me, I'm a Primate

The Typeface That Ate the World

The Tornado as Art

Soccer Imam

Look Back in Agora

The New Face of Globalization

A Secular Cartoon Jihad

Time Bomb

Please Leave a Message with My Trousers

In French:

Comment « Borat » s'est joué de Google

 In Russian (my cosmoPOLIT column in Akzia newspaper):

Пираты XXI века

МОБИЛизация

Мобильная журналистика

Глазами психолога

Проблемы киберактивизма

Гуманная архитектура

Сарко-экспресс

Конец одной войны — начало следующей?

Культура. Свобода. Демократия?

Вредное наследство

Эра Psiphon

Нездоровое правосудие здоровой демократии

Если интернета нет

Тонкости Евроремонта

Freedom хаос

Сравнительная демократология

В чем правда, Борат?

Битва за интернет

Фантик нелегальной иммиграции

Конец истории?

Лидирующий аутсайдер

Фабрики глянца

Лимузин для Чебурашки

Студенты как противники прогресса

Слобоумие

Hi-tech сопротивление джинсовой революции

Несвобода слова

Карикатура демократии

Континент Энергетической Безопасности (КЭБ)

Кому мешали НПО?

"Демократия" Киева или "сотрудничество" Шанхая?

Как утекал уран

Мутная прозрачность

Страх и ненависть в Пекине

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