A Journalist in Russia Is Shot Dead After Arrest August 31, 2008:

...."He was very popular in Ingushetia,” Mr. Orlov said in a telephone interview. When local Internet service providers blocked the site this year, residents downloaded the news on their cellphones, which could still connect to it....

For more on cyberwar in the former SSR's, see the links in an exchange between me and member "lally" on an Aug. 18-19 thread here and here.