Publication

The Russian blogosphere is to the Western blogosphere as the Cyrillic alphabet is to the Latin. You cannot understand the political activism of Russian bloggers without appreciating the central role of black humor in Russian political discourse any more than you can read Russian without comprehending Cyrillic. Unfortunately, most Western researchers have missed that point completely, taking too limited an approach to their analysis and concluding that there is little serious political commentary and activism in the Russian blogosphere.