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The New Nobility
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As Russia’s largest and best organised ‘horizontal’ community in Russia, football fans have found themselves at the centre of governmental attempts to control informal groups. Perhaps more surprisingly, they have also become guinea pigs for international, mostly European data exchange programmes, with Russian authorities picking up the very worst of surveillance practices from their foreign colleagues. /January 6, 2012/
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Nearly a week has passed since the last mass opposition rally in Moscow. Moscow’s protest movement is gathering momentum, bringing in greater numbers and a wider constituency of supporters. What is as yet unclear, however, is whether it has the organisational clout to become a sustained force for change. /December 29, 2011/
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For years, a pact of loyalty in exchange for roubles fostered the growth of a largely apolitical middle class in Russia. On Saturday December 10, that middle class turned against their creator. They are, however, some way off uniting behind a single opposition candidate, write Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. / Published December 14, 2011/
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Amongst the current projects of the Commission for the Modernisation and Technological Development of the Russian Economy, created by Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 and hailed by forward minded citizens as a tool for reform, is one focussing on perfecting personal identification systems. The project is being carried out by the security services, and its aim is to create multibiometric systems for identifying individuals in real time.
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Eric King, Privacy International, focuses on the intersection of human rights, privacy and technology. In a interview with Andrei Soldatov, Eric King talked about the latest developments in surveillance technology used by UK police during the recent violent protests.
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The Russian blogosphere has burgeoned into a open-door sanctuary for all strands of political opinion. Predictably, it has also attracted the attention of the country's security services. Our first in a series of investigations outlining how the Russian state is now monitoring its online public.
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Although funding for the Federal Security Service increased significantly during the 2000s, it is facing its most serious internal crisis in years. The political uncertainty of recent months has only intensified the problem, and even Vladimir Putin’s announcement on Sept. 24 that he will run for president has not resolved the situation. There are several aspects to the deep crisis in the FSB
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We were informed by Elena Efgrafova, an editor-in-chief of the United Press publishing house, that on September 14, the General Director of the Chekhov Poligraphic Complex, German Kravchenko, received a letter from the Moscow department of the FSB in which the Head of the 2nd Directorate of the 6th Inter-regional Section A.I.Sergeev requests information as to the identities of those individuals who placed the order for the publication of the book The New Nobility.
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