"Did you ever wonder why the Kremlin does not control the Internet as China does?", asks popular Gazeta.ru-observer Julia Latynina in one of her recent reviews. A question that resonated quite often among the RuNet researcher community.

While even bloggers tend to slow down their publication rhythm due to summer holidays, Runet itself these days experiences quite a hot season. A repeated call for censorship (or how to call it?) unsettles the Russian LiveJournal community, this time promoted by one of the most famous Runetchiks himself: the renown webdesigner Artemij Lebedev calls for a ban of materials showing realistic scenes of violence.