Federal Security Service
In Putin’s Russia, the Arrests Are Spreading Quickly and Widely
They came for Dmitri Kolker, an ailing physicist, in the intensive care ward. They came for Ivan Fedotov, a hockey star, as he was leaving practice with a film crew in tow. They came for Vladimir Mau, a state university rector, the week he was re-elected to the board of Gazprom. The message sent by […]
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Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War
Marina Dubrova, an English teacher on the Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific, showed an uplifting YouTube video to her eighth-grade class last month in which children, in Russian and Ukrainian, sing about a “world without war.” After she played it, a group of girls stayed behind during recess and quizzed her on her […]
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When Nokia Pulled Out of Russia, a Vast Surveillance System Remained
Nokia said this month that it would stop its sales in Russia and denounced the invasion of Ukraine. But the Finnish company didn’t mention what it was leaving behind: equipment and software connecting the government’s most powerful tool for digital surveillance to the nation’s largest telecommunications network. The tool was used to track supporters of […]
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U.S. Accuses 4 Russians of Hacking Infrastructure, Including Nuclear Plant
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department unsealed charges on Thursday accusing four Russian officials of carrying out a series of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, including a nuclear power plant in Kansas, and evidently compromising a petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. The announcement covered hackings from 2012 to 2018, but served as yet […]
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Ransomware Group REvil Dismantled in Raids, Russia Says
U.S. officials have said that the Kremlin could shut down hacker groups like REvil, but tolerates or even encourages them, as long as their targets are outside of Russia. In July, following President Biden’s ultimatum, REvil went offline, fueling speculations about whether the Kremlin had ordered the group to go quiet, or the United States […]
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