A student who was uncomplimentary about humanitarian trade union university teachers in St. Petersburg (Central Russia's northwest) in her personal web diary was dismissed, which caused a scandal.
A justice court in Nizhny Novgorod (Central Russia's southeast) fined an electrician working for a Wimm-Bill-Dann affiliate, who placed information on the wages of the enterprise's employees taken from the local network on his web site.
Personal web diaries have become very popular among Russians. Some 160,000 Russians keep pages where they record their daily impressions. Most such sites are open to everyone.
Security services of most big Russian companies have long been practicing monitoring of reports in the Internet. This is done in line with a strategy to fight inside information leaks. However, those who discuss their bosses or the company's policy are also in danger.
