At the very beginning of this week, Michael Elashkin died

On the night of May 30, 2011, Mikhail Elashkin died - the chief editor of the website of the Presidential Commission for Modernization ( i-Russia.Ru ) and the creator (in 2005) of the ITBlogs.Ru network platform.

On the life and creative path of the deceased reported obituaries on the sites CNews and ITBlogs.Ru . His sister left a recent blog post on his blog ( on LiveInternet ), and the Webplanet website picked up an article from the archives , which presented Elashkin’s views on the transformation of copyright into the digital era and the proposal, along with the “©” symbol, to use three other icons functionally close to him .