2010 Reports

In Defense of the "Fathers": A Closer Look at Eugene Gorny and Roman Leibov

Udensiva-Brenner, Masha

In early May 2010, a scandal raged over the Russian blogosphere—Russian philologists Eugene Gorny and Roman Leibov, neither of whom have any technological background, had been named "Founding Fathers of the Russian Internet" on the pages of a program for a weekend conference at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, titled "The Etiology and Ecology of Post-Soviet Communication."