Publication

The article examines the use of the internet in the Orange revolution in Ukraine. It notes that although coverage of the Ukraine significantly increased in German and English language media and websites, the same development did not take place in Russian or Ukrainian webpages. The article argues that this could be explained by the fact that Ukrainian and foreign journalists were already able to report more freely from Kiev under Ukraine’s former president, thus giving little incentives to the opposition to use the web as an alternative platform to voice their opinions from.