After confiscating the computers of NGO Baikal Environmental Wave in January, the Irkutsk police dropped software piracy charges as a result of Microsoft's announcement that it would not support the case. Microsoft promised to provide free software licenses to 500,000 advocacy groups around the world in order to deprive authorities of a pretext for politically motivated piracy prosecutions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/world/europe/06russia.html
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