[richardwigley]

Odd and interesting to read. I would have guessed a larger percentage of Russians got their views online.

I would also think that most online news written in Russian would be under control of state media. In which case, if they did start to use the Internet to find news then nothing would change.

Maybe a Russian nytimes.com?

[Grue3]

It's the same thing online. The law states that all websites in Russian language that have more than 3000 visitors per day have to be licensed and registered as mass media, or they get shut off. Lots of anti-Putin websites like grani.ru, navalny.ru are completely blocked.

[vbezhenar]

I don't think that majority of young Russians even watch TV. Most of young people getting information from Internet. And there are many different points of views in Russian media space. Though main news sources are heavily influenced by Kremlin, that's true. But those who want to find an alternative point of view, will do that without any problems.

[Avalaxy]

Yea, except for when you're looking for wikipedia, reddit or github, right?

[vbezhenar]

What do you mean? Those sites are available from Russia, as far as I know.

[Avalaxy]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/27/9210475/russia-wikipedia-b...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/russia-bans-reddit-2015-8?r=US...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/github-russia/

[vbezhenar]

I'm not sure about reddit, but wikipedia and github are not banned currently. Internet censorship is worrying and might eventually ban an important sites, but not yet.