The Russian category ran from 2004 to 2016 and grew into one of the award’s most politically consequential communities.
Notable winners in the Russian category
- The blog of journalist Natasha Mozgovaya (2004, Jury)
- Magazeta: All about China (2006, Jury and User)
- metkere.com (2009/2010, Jury) and Slon.ru (2009/2010, User)
- Rospil and Alexei Navalny (2011) — the anti corruption project won Best Use of Technology for Social Good
- Stopfake.org (2014, People’s Choice) — fact checking pro Kremlin disinformation
- Liza Alert (2015, People’s Choice) — the volunteer missing persons network
The original edition pages are preserved in the Internet Archive.
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