- Russian cops use excuse of pirated Microsoft products to raid dissidents, newspapers, and environmental groups claiming that the investigations come at MS's request. MS lawyers have cooperated with the newspaper raids, whose editors say that the they would not have happened without MS's complicity. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/12/russian-cops-use-exc.html 74 comments worldnews
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- Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html?hp= 90 comments
- Anti-piracy enforcers claiming to represent Microsoft used to shut down dissident media in former USSR | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/microsoft-anti-pirac.html 12 comments