Eastern Europe

Facing a dire shortage of qualified tech workers, companies and the Kremlin are vying to win the hearts and minds of Russia’s entrepreneurs and engineers.

With television networks full of government propaganda, YouTube is a vital platform for debate. But will the freedom last?

Volodymyr Usov made up for his total lack of experience — at least partly — with a boyish zeal for space.

Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences.

The first wave of the pandemic proved to be too much for Debunk EU, a Lithuanian organization that specializes in exposing conspiracy theories exported from Russia.

Wildberries, the country’s answer to Amazon, is a genuine success. But its corporate backstory involves a lot of mythmaking.

Telegram was designed to help pro-democracy activists, but lax content rules have made it a go-to platform for extremists.

As war continues between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, both countries are using the internet to escalate the fighting — and chalk up their wins.

As troves of KGB documents become declassified, former Soviet nations are grappling with their not-so-distant pasts.

Silk Road is dead. Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs: fully decentralized, pay-by-crypto, and end-to-end encrypted bazaars.