[pp.int.general] Russian Pirate Party elects first official leadership

[Joonas Mäkinen]

Spasibo, Boris!

Many have been wondering, what's been going on over there. Thank you
for letting us all know about how you're doing. :)

2010/1/27, Boris Turovskiy <tourovski at gmail.com>:
> On January 19th through 21st, 2010, the first elections of the Russian
> Pirate Party's leadership have taken place. The eight members of the
> party's founding committee voted through the party's public forum,
> according to the election rules set up previously.
>
>
> The newly elected chairman is Stanislav Shakirov, recently turned 23, a
> MSU mathematics graduate from Moscow who runs a small IT consultancy. He
> received 7 of 8 votes. Edgar Voskresensky from Moscow became
> vice-chairman. The founding commitee decided unanimously that all its
> members should join the Party Council.
>
>
> Currently the Russian Pirate Party is an unofficial organization and
> part of the international Pirate movement. The PPR has supporters in
> many major Russian cities. Estimates give the total number of party
> sympathisants as about 800, with 50 active participants and 8 members of
> the founding committee.
>
>

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Joonas "JoonasD6" Mäkinen
Varapuheenjohtaja, viceordförande
Piraattinuoret – Piratungdom

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
University of Helsinki

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