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Musora.RuA Web 2.0 database of reported police abuses

Musora.Ru (2005) was a Web 2.0 portal where users contributed cases of police abuse, building a public database with forums and discussions. Built pro bono, later closed.

A Web 2.0 database of reported police abuses

In 2005, we developed Musora.Ru — an experimental Web 2.0 portal dedicated to documenting abuses of power by corrupt police officers.

The project was initiated by a group of activists, and we built it pro bono as a socially significant experiment in user-generated content.


Features and highlights

  • 🗂️ A public database of reported abuses, filled in directly by users.

  • 👥 Community-driven moderation and updates.

  • 💬 Integrated forum for discussion and commentary.

  • 🌐 Early application of Web 2.0 principles — structured content created and maintained by the community.

  • 🚪 Eventually closed by the initiators due to the project’s sensitive nature.


Why it mattered

Musora.Ru was a socially charged experiment — and one of our first true UGC-driven projects.

It showed how communities could generate structured data around sensitive issues, long before this became a standard model.

👉 The engine we developed for Musora.Ru later fed into our community systems, proving that user-driven databases and discussions could work hand-in-hand.