In 500 feet, you will reach your demonstration

Dans un article de Jennifer Wilson publié dans Rest of World le 2 juin 2020, Ksenia Ermoshina, chargée de recherche au CIS, explique comment des citoyens utilisent en Russie des applications mobiles basées sur des cartes pour organiser des rassemblements virtuels et exprimer leur mécontentement quant à la gestion de la pandémie, mais aussi comment ces manifestations sont réprimées.

Crédit image / Image credit
Jody Mak, Rest of World.

EN. In a Jennifer Wilson article published in Rest of World on June 2, 2020, Ksenia Ermoshina, researcher at the CIS, explains how citizens are using in Russia map-based mobile apps to organize virtual gatherings and express their dissatisfaction with the management of the pandemic, but also how these demonstrations are repressed.

Jennifer Wilson, with Ksenia Ermoshina, 2020, “In 500 feet, you will reach your demonstration. With in-person protest now impossible, Russians have taken to popular navigation apps to register dissent, outfoxing authorities in the process”, Rest of World, 2 June 2020.