Russia has realized OPSEC has gone out the window with LiveJournal, and there may be a purge coming. A lot of rumors in Russia are discussing the possibility that SUP Fabrik is under pressure to delete several LiveJournal diaries. If you are a LiveJournal user, you may want to get a back up in case the purge goes wild.
Is it a legitimate problem? It is unclear, the Russian LiveJournal community appears to be very popular among soldiers, and for some reason, there appears to be plenty of bandwidth for updating diaries during the military conflict. Apparently, there is a lot of downtime.
I can say that most Russian language readers we know are spending a lot of time looking through the Russian LiveJournal entries. At worst, one finds links to the better media coverage quicker. At best, you get an inside look at events on the ground.
Regardless, with detailed entries by non soldiers regarding unit movements coming from what may be Georgian LiveJournal entries, Russia clearly has an OPSEC problem, and a lot of rumors suggest a purge is coming.
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