Looks like the Russian government brought the hammer down on a few high-profile Russian-based opposition sites yesterday.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/russia-b...314-hviyf.html
Would be curious to hear from the Russians on this board how they feel about it. I know more than one of those guys has angrily denied any claims that Russian media might, just might, not be 100% free and might in fact be hanging out with the Sword of Damocles (i.e. Putin) hanging over their head. It's one thing to control editorial content of your major & state-run media channels (this happens anywhere), another entirely to totally shut down opposition news sites while your country gears up to strong-arm territory from a sovereign nation under trumped up 1938 Sudentenland/Poland-style "we're protecting ethnic Russians/Germans from nonexistent persecution" claims.
I'm sure those guys will chime in here with some convoluted reasoning why the media shutdown is okay, or to explain it didn't exactly go down as external news is reporting - and if so, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.