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Belarus media sites under attack by zombies

Matt W 1

The war memorial 

Posted Friday 12th June 2009 13:54 GMT

This is likely to be a part of the continuing escalation of discontent with the Belarussian govt. Google the row over the war memorial.

Anonymous Coward

Tron 

Posted Friday 12th June 2009 22:09 GMT

Happy

Every time I see all these cyberwords it makes me think of hackers shrinking down and getting into my computer Tron-style.

MondoMan

correction 

Posted Friday 12th June 2009 22:09 GMT

Boffin

The Estonian cyberattacks happened in 2007, not 1997.

Ramazan

ethnically Russian region 

Posted Friday 12th June 2009 22:09 GMT

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Since when the Ossetia is "ethnically Russian separatist region"? Did you ever manage to see any ethnic "Russian" (I mean slavic) there?

Ramazan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossetia 

Posted Friday 12th June 2009 22:09 GMT

largely inhabited by the Ossetians, an Iranian people who speak the Ossetian language (an Eastern Iranian language, Indo-European group of languages)

Throatwobbler Mangrove

hold on, hold on 

Posted Sunday 14th June 2009 01:39 GMT

You're missing an important point here (or I am missing it in your report): Charter97 is an anti-Lukashenka (Europe's last dictator TM) website that has served as a hub for the Belarusian Human Rights movement. It has previously been hacked (they believe) by Belarusian child porn merchants linked to local law enforcement agencies: http://spring96.org/en/news/12371/

If the Russian state wanted to embarrass Lukashenka, they wouldn't block this website - in fact, quite the opposite. Although it is interesting that this comes at a time when the Russian Federation and Belarus are beefing about money and memorials.