A post on unsolved riddles, pending questions, and unanswerable queries.First of all, simmons_fan asked me in a comment about the following:"Моя коллега по исследованию российской блогосферы ищет одну статью. Она её описывает следующим образом: 'All I know is vague - that it is a study on the Internet, and FSB involvement, and how the FSB works to distract/disorganize etc online content. It was written in the early 2000's (like 2002) and has 3 authors. The person who was telling me about it referred to the article as an example of how the FSB has people who, for instance, add all sorts of "flames" or tdistracting comments to political articles in order to distract the conversation from important issues etc.'" (simmons_fan, your link makes me wonder whether your colleague is perhaps Karina Alexanyan?)I can't say I haven't tried. I asked colleagues, googled my head off, but all I can come up with is this podcast with three 'authors' - Linor Goralik, Vlad Strukov, and Olia Lialina - including, among other topics, a discussion 'On Internet control, censorship, copyright and child protection'. Interesting, yes, but surely this is not the article that your colleague is looking for, simmons_fan? Does one of our readers have a clue, perhaps?Secondly, two of my students are drafting plans for exciting essays, on topics which have been explored substantially less extensively than, say, populist motifs in Lev Tolstoy's work. The first is on Russian flash animation, the second on Russian virtual museums (in the broad sense - think Memorial's Virtual Gulag Museum, but also websites like madeinussr.com, which we discussed earlier). This is not the place to enter into the specificities of the essays. This is the place, though, to ask potential specialists for useful sources. As a literary-cum-cultural-studies scholar, I am familiar with some writings on flash animation (by Maevski & Borodkin, for instance, and by Vlad Strukov, whom I just mentioned and who is one of our RC colleagues), but I don't have an overview of the field. The same goes for the digital museums: there is Museums and the Web by Bowen, Bennett & Johnson (1998), there is a useful online article by Takashi et al. - but what else? And what is there specifically on Russian museums and the web? Which first-rate sources are we overlooking? Ideas, comments, suggestions - all are warmly welcomed.ER