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Zurich District Court sentences Ukrainian programmer to 12 years and 9 months for involvement in a cybercriminal network

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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FSB reported the detention of a security guard at the British Embassy in Moscow in a treason case

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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«CryptoPro» is developing a browser with Russian encryption algorithms in coordination with the FSB

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 reported the detention of a Moldovan citizen in the case of an attempted attack on a serviceman in Saratov Oblast

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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Putin created a commission for restrictive measures against those who left Russia and were convicted in absentia

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 Russian Dmitry Drig has been held in Moscow under administrative arrests for more than two months

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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A court in Georgia has allowed the extradition of Mikhail Timofeev to Russia

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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Five participants in the hostage-taking at Rostov pre-trial detention center sentenced to 21 to 29 years

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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15-year-old Saikal Vazirova was sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony in the case of the arson of a gas station in St. Petersburg

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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Ivan Kirsanov spoke about working on surveillance systems for the FSB and the SORM archive

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 Security Forces Begin Unprecedented Internet Blockades. Will This Lead to Mass Protests?

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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More than Two Thousand Hostages, Dozens of Victims, and Lies from the Security Services: 30 Years Since the Kizlyar and Pervomayskoye Terror Attack

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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The Impossible Revolution

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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Why the Kremlin Is So Uncomfortable with the Memory of the Mass Executions in Karelia

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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How Pravfond Works — The Center Supporting Russian Agents Abroad

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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