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Secret archives of the secret services
The Russian state does not like to explain why it persecutes this or that person....
2 months ago
14:44
The Most Terrifying Shutdown. How Russia Helps Kill Protesters in Iran
At the end of last year, protests erupted in Iran: first demanding economic reforms, and...
6 months ago
35:21
How Russia’s FSB Is Structured
The FSB is a massive structure made up of dozens of divisions. Thousands of officers...
6 months ago
34:28
What you need to know about smartphone security on the go
Discussion of measures of digital security in the context of mobilization in Russia September 21,...
7 months ago
09:47
2025 in Review: Anyone Can Be Labeled a Spy
A review of 2025 for the human rights project Perviy Otdel (“First Department”) and for...
8 months ago
11:36
Sovereign digital certificates. What is it and why?
Russian banks have begun to demand digital certificates from the Ministry of Digital Development, without...
8 months ago
08:34
Spoiling FSB professional holiday (3 years in a row)
December 20 is “Chekist Day” in Russia, a professional holiday for the state security agencies....
8 months ago
19:33
The service of “bad Russians”. What Rossotrudnichestvo does
While the FSB, the Ministry of Defense, and Russian courts compete for the worst reputation,...
8 months ago
11:25
FSB-taxi: special services will trace your every trip
The FSB will be able to monitor your every taxi ride. According to the new...
8 months ago
10:00
Dangerous comments! What, where and how to post on YouTube?
Is it possible to write these or other things in the comments? And in general,...
9 months ago
46:35
World Uyghur Congress President on China's Digital Surveillance
World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa talks about China’s surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Since...
11 months ago
21:08
AI knows everything about you. And it doesn't like you.
Artificial intelligence, in addition to its positive applications in saving lives and creating content, is...
11 months ago
22:05
China is erasing its own and our memory. What happened in Tiananmen Square?
The massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 is one of the most famous...
11 months ago
13:20
Secrets of the FSB: Why do they hide archives?
The main Russian special service inherited the archives of the Cheka, NKVD and KGB -...
11 months ago
13:50
Without a license and a passport. Who are stateless people?
Can your Russian passport be taken away for an anti-war post on the Internet? According...
11 months ago
15:48
How Ekaterina Mizulina became an Internet celebrity
Little is usually known about the lives of children of officials. If something comes to...
11 months ago
12:28
Political Repression in the Soviet Union
After the Red Revolution, Russia regularly experienced waves of extermination of enemies of the state....
11 months ago
12:08
Political Investigation in the Russian Empire
In 1649, at the people's request, the government issued the Cathedral Code, the first Russian...
11 months ago
17:28
CENSORSHIP: from book burning to Roskomnadzor
There is one tradition: to burn archives and pretend that nothing happened before. It began...
11 months ago
17:11
Publishing anonymously! How to write about important things - and not give yourself away
There are a lot of taboo topics in Russia. War cannot be called war, corruption...
11 months ago