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PILDAT says Feb 8 polls record lowest fairness score since 2013

  The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.

Vladimir Putin calls internet a CIA project


Moscow: Russian president Vladimir Putin called the internet a CIA project, he said this while commenting about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex. 

The remarks came while he was speaking at a media forum in St Petersburg,  he said that the internet originally was a "CIA project" and "is still developing as such". He also made clear that Russia needs to fight for its interest on-line and will resist the influence of CIA on internet.

This week, Russian parliament has also passed a law which requires social media websites to keep their servers in Russia and save all information of their users for about six years.


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