On vestnikcivitas.ru, an online publication about Russian civil society (not to be confused with the think tank Civitas), Rimma Poliak has posted a new editorial - it is a careful deconstruction of the new blog of Tat'iana Iumasheva (Yeltsin's daughter who apparently had wielded quite an influence on him and his politics).A quick perusal of Iumasheva's blog shows hundreds of comments by visitors on each of her posts; she has quite an audience. Her goal is to clear Yeltsin's memory of the shroud of lies and myths that has enveloped it -  to tell the truth, to narrate what exactly happened in the 1990s. Her wish is to address young Russian internet users who may have no clear memory of the 1990s, but in her critic Poliak's words it is also to address those who prefer not to observe with their own eyes but to believe uncritically the lies that are reported as truth in the news, papers and in blogs of renowned personalities.On the one hand, thus, you have Iumasheva's claim to clear the air and tell it like it happened and on the other hand Poliak's critique that such claims are deceitful, manipulative, selective and dangerous. Both exemplify how Runet has become a space for competing ideas about what is real or unreal and true or untrue, and other such ontological battles - just as a public sphere should. S.R