On September 9, Irina Levchenko testified in the Southern District Military Court in the case of Hennadii and Olha Kapralov from occupied Melitopol. She said that in 2023 she and Viktoriia Roshchyna were held in a secret prison in Melitopol and that, according to her, FSB officers tortured detainees.

#VictoriaRoshchina #WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #ZaporizhzhiaOblast #IrinaLevchenko #Melitopol #OccupationofUkraine #FSB

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Donetsk resident Ksenia Dyachkova was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a state treason case. She was also fined 400,000 rubles.

#WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Donetsk #Occupiedterritories #sbu #FSB

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Zurich District Court sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian programmer to 12 years and 9 months in prison for involvement in an international cybercriminal network. According to Europol, the EU police agency, more than 1,800 victims in 71 countries are linked to this group.

#NorskHydro #StadlerRail #Europol #FSB #Zurich #Switzerland

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The FSB reported the detention of an employee of the organization guarding the British Embassy in Moscow. A treason case was opened against him; according to the security service, he was collecting information for the SBU.

#UnitedKingdom #WarinUkraine #Moscow #Russia #sbu #Ukraine #FSB

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The Ryazan FSB has opened a new criminal case of treason against Ruslan Sidiki, a citizen of Russia and Italy. According to reports, because of the new episode, his transfer to prison after the 29-year sentence may be delayed.

#WarinUkraine #Sabotage #RuslanSidiki #Ryazan #FSB

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The Russian company «CryptoPro» is developing a new «CryptoPro Browser» with support for domestic encryption algorithms approved by the FSB. The product will be part of the «CryptoPro CSP» cryptographic software suite version 6.0 and will work together with the plugin; the development and launch timeline has not been disclosed.

#ChromeWebStore #importsubstitution #theInternet #CryptoPro #FSB #Internetcensorship

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The FSB and the Investigative Committee reported the detention in Astrakhan Oblast of 21-year-old Moldovan citizen Nicolae Cociu. He is suspected of attempting to attack a Russian serviceman in Saratov Oblast; cases have been opened against him for attempted murder and illegal arms trafficking.

#RussianAerospaceForces #WarinUkraine #Kiev #Moldova #Okhmatdet #SaratovOblast #InvestigativeCommitteeoftheRussianFederation #FSB

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Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing an interagency commission that will apply temporary restrictive measures to Russians who left the country and were convicted in absentia under political articles. The document was published on September 7 on the legal information portal; the commission will be headed by Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko.

#ProsecutorGeneralsOffice #publicservices #MinistryofInternalAffairsoftheRussianFederation #ministryofjustice #Putin #repressions #Russianemigration #FSB

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The 65-year-old Russian Dmitry Drig, who flew to Moscow to collect his pension, has been held since July 1 under a series of administrative arrests. The latest known decision — on August 31, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow sentenced him to another 10 days under a petty hooliganism report.

#DmitryDrig #Mediazona #Moscow #PerovskyDistrictCourtofMoscow #PreobrazhenskyDistrictCourtofMoscow #FSB

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The Tbilisi City Court has allowed the extradition to Russia of Mikhail Timofeev, an aide and associate of former Khabarovsk Krai governor Sergei Furgal. Timofeev’s defense intends to appeal the decision to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

#Georgia #Interpol #MikhailTimofeev #Russia #SergeyFurgal #FSB

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The Southern District Military Court handed down sentences to five inmates of Rostov pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the hostage-taking case. They received from 21 to 29 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

#IslamicState #Rostov #court #terrorism #FSB

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The 1st Western District Military Court on August 19 sentenced 15-year-old Saikal Vazirova to seven years in a juvenile correctional colony. She was found guilty of an act of terrorism that caused significant property damage in the case of the arson of a Tatneft fuel dispenser in St. Petersburg.

#1stWesternDistrictMilitaryCourt #Petersburg #SaikalVazirova #InvestigativeCommittee #Tatneft #FSB

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Programmer Ivan Kirsanov said that he worked on surveillance systems for the FSB and now lives in France. He also handed journalists an archive of technical documentation on SORM, which contained files from «MFI Soft» for 2021–2024.

#IvanKirsanov #MFISoft #Yarovayapackage #SORM #FSB #Citadel

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Russian authorities have been restricting internet freedom for years. But recently, these restrictions have reached unprecedented levels and even surpassed China’s Great Firewall. The blockades are undermining the economy and sparking protests, yet the FSB, which now oversees control of the Russian internet, is not backing down.

#business #InternetblockinginRussia #state #theInternet #ArtificialIntelligence #China #acrisis #Nepal #Putin #Russia #freedom #securityforces #FSB #censorship

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In the winter of 1996, nearly twice as many hostages were taken in Kizlyar as in Budyonnovsk just six months earlier; in terms of sheer numbers, the terrorist attack in Dagestan remains the largest in Russian (and apparently world) history to this day. This crisis taught Russian ministers and generals that force is preferable to words, and any loss of life is better than losing face.

#1990s #BorisYeltsin #warinChechnya #Dagestan #hostagetaking #historicalmemory #Caucasus #regimentalcommanders #Russia #separatism #hillup #terrorism #FSB

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This fall, the 16-episode series «Chronicles of the Russian Revolution» by Andrei Konchalovsky was released on the Start online cinema platform. The creators of the series openly claim: all freedoms in Russia are only harmful. Which, however, is the norm for Russian historical series.

#AndreiKonchalovsky #state #dictatorship #historicalmemory #medina #society #aftertheUSSR #revolution #Russia #freedom #series #Stalin #TV #FSB

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The forested Sandarmokh tract seems to threaten the Russian authorities by its very existence. From their point of view, since people do not forget about it, their memory must be reformatted—by any means and at any cost.

#thecaseofYuriDmitriev #dictatorship #historicalmemory #Karelia #NKVD #Putin #repressions #Sandarmokh #theUSSR #Stalin #FSB

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In Soviet times, the Russian emigration was an important base for recruiting foreign agents, but after the collapse of the USSR, its numbers grew many times over – opening up inexhaustible opportunities for Russian intelligence services. The network of Russian influence agents and simple spy centers is visibly becoming denser

#agents #Analytics #antiRussiansanctions #VyacheslavNikonov #Gru #dictatorship #YevgenyPrimakov #Study #kgb #NataliaKardash #aftertheUSSR #legalfund #propaganda #Russianspecialservices #Rossotrudnichestvo #Russianworld #SVR #SergeyLavrov #compatriots #FSB

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