To readers of the ATS-Info: "Erica" ​​takes four copies

The latest events taking place with independent media are acceleration of “tape. RU ”and blocking the three oppositional information media (“ faces. RU ”,“ Daily magazine ”and“ Kasparov. RU ”), could not leave the OWD-info aside. What is happening-and this is nothing more than the destruction of the last professional, independent and mass media and the introduction of Internet censorship-extremely bothers us as people and as professionals. Finally, the reduction in the space of information freedom directly concerns our project.

So far, the OWD-Info website has not been blocked and we continue to work in full. But the meaning of our work is the distribution of data on detentions at public events and other types of political repression in other media, so that a wide audience knows about what is happening. For 28 months of our work, we could not complain about the inattention of our data from the media-the number of mentions of the ATS-info in the press is approaching 4 thousand news and articles.

With a reduction in the number of free media, the number of people who can learn about the data collected by the ATS-info is also reduced. For example, “facets. RU ”provided 5.7% of the references to our project in the media,“ Ribbon. RU ” - 4.4%, Kasparov. RU - 3.1%, "Daily Journal" - 1%:

The list of publications is available in tabular form .

What is more important, the use of our data by these media is, first of all, “tape. Ru ” - led to the fact that the news about the detentions were published in dozens and even hundreds of other publications, whose editions used the“ tape. Ru ”as a kind of information agency and mirror of the picture of the day.

With the disappearance of the tape. RU "independence and blocking the three main opposition media media, the media glass has changed completely, and now we will have to live in new conditions. Therefore, on the one hand, we have prepared two gifts for you - our readers, and on the other, we ask you for help.

First of all, we want to show solidarity with our colleagues from the "faces. RU ”,“ LOAD FACK ”and Kasparov. Ru. Now on our website we publish their news - or rather, links to their news, which miraculously during the transition from our site always open. This will allow our readers and readers of these resources to always meet those news that officials illegally want to hide.

In addition, we have prepared for you a detailed certificate of how to get access to information in new Russia. It makes sense to download and save this certificate to your computer and use the recommendations if the OWD-Info website is extremely unexpected for you in our country.

Finally, we ask for your help and your participation. In the circumstances in terms of the spread of our data, we can only rely on you. Therefore, we ask you to become our cyber activists:

• Subscribe to our accounts on social networks on Facebook and Twitter
• distribute news and articles that we publish, both in these social networks and in all other places available to you

In Soviet times, there was one independent publication - it was a chronicle of current events that collected and distributed data on political repressions. The chronicle did not have any resources for distribution, but there were many caring readers. Having received a chronicle under a great secret from friends and acquaintances, readers - risking their freedom, workplace and calm sleep - reprinted several of her copies on the typewriter and handed them on to their friends and colleagues. So information. Which the Soviet government tried to hide, became known to everyone who wanted it.

Today everything is easier. You do not risk anything, and you do not need to spend a lot of time. Two magic buttons-CTRL-C and CTRL --V-in the computer era make the technology of non-certificate press simple and fast.

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