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Who Controls Russia – II

The New York Times published on November 9 an article under the headline “Who Controls Russia?”, where the authors claim that there is a fight between President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin about the actual control over the country. With … Continue reading

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Good News for the Internet Users in Europe

Christian Engstr?m, Pirate MEP announced today: The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers reached agreement on a text tonight. The conciliation process is now over. The acceptance of the text was unanimous by the parliament’s delegation, i.e.: including us … Continue reading

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ISOC Bulgaria Signed the Madrid Declaration on Privacy

ISOC-Bulgaria was among the first to sign the Madrid Privacy Declaration.

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ISOC-Bulgaria supports an Open Letter to the MEP re ammendment 138

ISOC Bulgaria supports this Open Letter: EDRI Open Letter to the European Parliament on Amendment 138 in the Telecoms Package * 19 October 2009 To the Members of the European Parliament, European Digital Rights is an association of 29 privacy … Continue reading

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Complete Statistics About Usage, Spread of Internet in Bulgaria

There have been a number of surveys in the last few months, re: Internet usage. Here is a summary below, and when we are ready with this survey.isoc.bg, we’ll publish the results, as well. July 2009: 1. Internet is being … Continue reading

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Net Neutrality in the US under fire

John McCain has introduced a new legislation at the US Senate, which is called Internet Freedom Act. Mr. McCain said: “Today I’m pleased to introduce ???The Internet Freedom Act of 2009’ that will keep the Internet free from government control … Continue reading

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Wrong war

* interview for The Sofia Echo weekly, published on Friday, Oct. 10. Author: Rene Beekman On the morning of our interview, Veni Markovski posted a Facebook status message saying he thought that, “as long as there are people in Bulgaria … Continue reading

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Световният ??нтернет влиза в нова ера с подписаното днес споразумение между ICANN и правителството на САЩ

Световният ??нтернет влиза в нова ера с подписването на документа за задължения между ICANN и правителството на САЩ. Новият документ потвърждава, че ??нтернет ще продължи да се развива както и досега – от организация, в която участват всички заинтересовани страни: … Continue reading

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Bulgarian Irina Bokova is the next Director General of UNESCO

Great news from Paris – Irina Bokova, the Bulgarian Ambassador to France, won the elections for the Director General of UNESCO! She managed to get ahead of the Egyptian minister of culture for more than 20 years, Mr. Farouk Hosny … Continue reading

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Is Obama too liberal?

David Brooks wrote an op-ed, Liberal Suicide March. I don’t agree with him, but I guess – if I look at the poll numbers, I am in the minority 🙁 I am not so much worried by the huge deficit … Continue reading

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