Для того, чтобы быть дауншифтером, не обязательно куда-то ехать – достаточно просто отказаться от гипер-усилий, которые перестали приносить удовлетворение, и сосредоточиться на том, что по-настоящему радует.

Two weeks ago the respected Russian media websites - Kommersant.ru (daily business newspaper) and Echo.msk.ru (Echo Moscow radio) - faced hours-long denial of service fallout. Few weeks before online resources devoted to all-Russian liberal rally "March of disagreement" were down for days. Now massive attacks of Drugaja Rossija ("Another Russia") party take place. This cases gave their victims every reason to believe DDoSers are financed by political powers.

Kommersant.ru fell down after it has published a record of Boris Berezovsky questioning by Russian police related to Aleksandr Litvinenko's death. But website's chief editor Pavel Chernikov sees no political attachments to this case and would rather suspect of few teenagers learning 'cool tricks' and playing hackers.

Aleksandr Plushev from Echo.msk.ru admits that DDoS-attacks as an instrument of information wars is nothing new although these recent attacks showed new bounds of attackers' resources. 'It would be possible to proceed the attackers only if officials are interested and force security services to manage it", he resumes.

A code to ban Estonian IP's was published on LiveJournal by Russian blogger. In his post the author encourages readers to embed the code into their websites and blogs as a protest againts moving a monument to Soviet soldier from Tallin's streets to the city cemetry. Those who comment are mostly pointing at technological shortsite of this action - first of all this code would ban Russians who live in Estonia from visiting Russian websites. They offer alternative algorithms, like banning based on language preferences in users' browsers.

Ad designer Denis Kharitonov noted his copyrighted illustration on the cover of RBC Daily newspaper. The picture was published on his personal blog two years ago - now he's going to sue newspaper publishers - RBC Information Systems for copyright infringement. Everyone has fun about the situation for just few weeks ago RBC was finished with the lawsuit from Vedomosti on the same accusation. By court's decision RBC.ru was imposed a 2,800,000 rubles penalty.