Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers, Internet pioneers and political activists said May 6 would give the government a much wider ability to track who said what online.
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A Russian tank is pictured during a rehearsal of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow late on May 5, 2012. The parade will take place on the Red Square in Moscow on May 9 to commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
