St. Stefan of Perm and applied linguistics.

The city of Perm is the administrative center.

The project's aim was to identify potholes in Perm city.

Oleg Chirkunov, 52, Perm Krai governor, is a blogger himself.

As political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky told a Perm website, once Basargin has established himself, he will head the region, whether Perm wills it or not.

Founded in 1994, it is based in the city of Perm.

Coal has been mined in Perm Krai for more than 200 years.

Perm recently became a birthplace of two online crowdsourcing platforms StreetJournal.org and dorogi.teron.ru .

The Perm region is famous for its high level of offline civic activities.

As many Russian regions, Perm Krai has drastic differences in the level of infrastructure.

Unlike dorogi.teron.ru, StreetJournal.org has a broader scale of issues and goes well beyond Perm.

In contrast, the plane crash in Perm last year provided many opportunities for citizen reporting

Most people posted their updates on the plane crash in Perm using their home computers.

In 2002, the Moscow Carnegie Center called Perm Krai the most democratic region in Russia.

Truly annoyed that we had to pay for Verna and her Perm Sec fucking up.

Erenko was fired within the hour, reports Echo of Perm (a local office of Echo Moskvy).

Kudymkar ( ) is a town and the administrative center of Komi Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, Russia.

An lj community gorodperm (City of Perm) is also filled with discussion and information about the fire.

President Medvedev tops the list, followed by an ex oppositionary Maria Gaidar and Perm Governor Oleg Chirkunov .

No wonder people there were quite overwhelmed by such online tools like Ushahidi, WordPress or Perm made StreetJournal.org.

On one hand, Perm is one of few regions where bloggers are cooperated with, not threatened or ignored.

StreetJournal.org is a project launched in the city of Perm, now operating in several major cities across Russia.

But what happened to social media platforms that actively reported on the plane crash in Perm in September 2008?

The same forum was also a major source of information after a plane crash in Perm in September 2008 .

This might explain Perm authorities' willingness (or at least the lack of complete ignorance) to participate in crowdsourcing projects.

Residents of Permskiy Krai view this as a betrayal, states a resolution by the Perm Coalition for Direct Elections

Fire at the night club Khromaya Loshad (Lame Horse) in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people.

November 3, 1923, Perm province was abolished and its territory was included in the Ural Oblast with its center in Yekaterinburg.

Alexander Erenko, a journalist from Perm, re posted this message on his wall, changing the Vologodsk Region to his own home town.

The Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court dismissed the lawsuit and then an appeal was lodged with the 17th Arbitration Court of Perm, which was granted.

StreetJournal.org, an online platform that helps citizens voice their problems, was created by the team of Perm based IT specialists led by Alexey Shaposhnikov.

Peter (or Pyotr or Petr) Berngardovich Struve ( pronounced January 26, 1870, Perm February 22, 1944, Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor.

Last week I and Gregory Asmolov traveled to Perm, a big industrial city west to the Ural mountains to meet regional online activists and local authorities.

In Perm, the newspaper Chusovskoy Rabochiy (chrgazeta.ru), removed all comments that had been published since the newspaper's launch in 2003, also forbidding users to leave comments.

In 1995, the team, reinforced by former players of Zvezda Perm, was second in the 6th group of the third league and qualified for the second league.

Another lj user from Perm kostyanus provides a long list of updates from different sources mixing reports from Russian TV, recollections of victims and rumors about the tragedy.

The project motivated the local department of transportation (now the Ministry of Transportation of Perm Region) to use the crowdsourced data and create a plan of road constructions.

Teron.ru already proved itself in the past as an important source when it became the major place online to get information about the plane crash in Perm a year ago.

In Russia, only two Gulag sites, in Solovki and in Perm, have small museums that show conditions in the camps, the techniques of torture and murder, the documents, and the portraits.

The social media coverage in Perm was based on the accounts of those who witnessed the crash but were not part of it (unfortunately, there were no survivors on the plane).

While regional center, Perm city, enyoys 3G coverage and accessible broadband Internet, people in distant villages of Kosa district, for example, can t even use cell phones due to the lack of network coverage.

At least 109 people died and more than 130 were injured Friday night in a fire caused by the ignition of a pyrotechnic display, and in the resulting stampede, at the Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm.

It provides a framework for people living in Perm to share valuable information. Consequently, a major part of information is not just exchange of links and discussion, but updates from people who saw what happened with their own eyes or know something about what happen from reliable sources.