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Evgeny Morozov How the Net aids dictatorships

New Year's parade of Ded Morozes and Snegurochkas in Bishkek.

In 2007, Morozov did something even crazier than usual.

The deputy head of the Federal Customs Service Sergei Morozov was appointed acting head of Astrakhan region.

The authorities in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, held a massive New Year's parade of Ded Morozes and Snegurochkas.

Indeed, during the summer of 2005, Morozov gained RuNet notoriety for what he called the Red Blitzkrieg.

Tomato terrorism, as Morozov jokingly called it, claimed several victims that summer.

Morozov described the impetus for his return to form in a May 12 post.

An ideal transport hub is, for example, the Harvard station in Boston and Spadina station in Toronto, assures Alexander Morozov.

At the Kaluzhskaya metro, the approach distance from the metro vestibule to the bus made up 50 meters, recounts Alexander Morozov.

After a period of severe frosts in the highlands that killed off staple food crops, the intense El Niño driven drought has prevented new crops from growing.

Autumn is a pleasant season, as the moderating Gulf waters delay the onset of frost, although storm activity increases compared to the summer.

In the meantime, Morozov showed up at another Oborona action, and this time gifted Yashin the tomatoes, rather than throwing them.

Even though there is a transport hub development program in the city, no qualitative criteria are designated, states Alexander Morozov, co chairman of the public organization City and Transport .

And so, one cold spring night, Morozov armed himself with a sawed off shotgun, fired it at the Moscow office of United Russia, and blogged about it.

Soon after came a failed attempt (Morozov missed) of tomatoing Yulia Latynina, whose revisionism of WWII orthodoxy also angered the Red Blitzkrieg.

Morozov himself states that he has quit public politics, calling it an ineffective waste, and that personal, not political, circumstances were behind his arrest.

After he went to prison in 2007, Morozov fell off the RuNet radar, though he has been writing regularly since his 2009 release.

Speakers at the event, As Darkness Falls, include Jacob Appelbaum, Bruce Sterling, Micah Sifry, Evgeny Morozov and from Global Voices, Asteris Masouras ( asteris).

TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls iPod liberalism the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.

Morozov, who spent a day under arrest for the incident, responded in his blog (vandalized and deleted in 2009 an archive exists on the alternative lj.rossia.org service), claiming full responsibility and denying membership in any political group

Red Blitzkrieg was what Morozov named the tiny Stalinist nationalist group he had founded around the time, but the phrase referred more visibly to his strategy of throwing tomatoes at political and ideological opponents.

Evgeny Morozov ( evgenymorozov), who is currently in Belarus, tweeted that he couldn't access anything using https.

In August came the tomatoing of the Polish embassy (a response to a scandal involving children of Russian diplomats in Poland, for which Morozov and an accomplice spent three nights in jail), and in September the tomatoing of Echo Moskvy's offices (on general principle).

Andrei Morozov (also known as Murz, who blogs at kenigtiger), wearing the same jacket he had on seven years earlier, approached a crowd of OccupyAbai protestors during the Control Stroll rally.

While it appears that he still has some connections to the nationalist underground, claiming membership in the so called Black Blitzkrieg, he has dismissed his 'tomato period' as childish, which makes the May 13, 2012, incident all the more surprising.