Cyxymu is a screen name of a Georgian blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated series of attacks on social networking sites Facebook , Google Blogger , LiveJournal and Twitter , taking the latter offline for two hours on August 7 , 2009 . The name mimics a Cyrillic spelling of Sukhumi ( Сухуми ) , capital town in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia . The blogger , who extensively covers the suffering of Georgian civilians during and after the War in Abkhazia , accuses Russia of trying to silence him using cyberattacks . Facebook came out in defense of Cyxymu , with chief security officer Max Kelly stating that “ It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard . " Cyxymu 's Russian-language LiveJournal blog was a source of information from Georgia for the news media during the 2007 state of emergency and 2008 Russo-Georgian War
the suffering of Georgian civilians
Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia
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