disappearing Kavkaz sites?
Over the last few weeks from terrorist attack in Moscow I've seen Chechen informational websites disappearing one by one, replaced by standard ISP "work in progress" or "domain for hire" banners. All those sites (kavkaz.org, kavkazcenter.com and others) were the only sources of information about war in Chechnya independent from Russian propaganda. I can still see some Russian-language sites (chechenpress.com) working, but for obvious reasons they rarely are useful for the international community interested in what's going on in Chechnya. So it seems that Russian FSB is much more effective in censoring Internet or, in general, controlling the flow of information (all Russian independent TV and newspapers were shut down too) than any Western law enforcement or secret service. Probably because FSB don't care at all about law, human rights etc. Bad news that the claim that "censoring Internet is practically impossible" is no longer true. This is probably the right time for Kavkaz people to move to Freenet... -- Pawe3 Krawczyk, Kraksw, Poland http://echelon.pl/kravietz/ horses: http://kabardians.com/ crypto: http://ipsec.pl/
I have noticed this too. Other similar sites such as "qoqaz.net", "azzam.com", "azzam.co.uk", etc, are often down or have disappeared completely. Some of these sites were well organized, very informative and updated frequently. David Mirza Ahmad Symantec 0x26005712 8D 9A B1 33 82 3D B3 D0 40 EB AB F0 1E 67 C6 1A 26 00 57 12 On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-2] Pawe3 Krawczyk wrote:
Over the last few weeks from terrorist attack in Moscow I've seen Chechen informational websites disappearing one by one, replaced by standard ISP "work in progress" or "domain for hire" banners.
All those sites (kavkaz.org, kavkazcenter.com and others) were the only sources of information about war in Chechnya independent from Russian propaganda. I can still see some Russian-language sites (chechenpress.com) working, but for obvious reasons they rarely are useful for the international community interested in what's going on in Chechnya.
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Dave Ahmad
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Paweł Krawczyk