Expensible measures

Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi found a local resident Ivan Shuvalov guilty of DDOS attacks on a number of sites during opposition protests in 2011-2012, the Caucasian Knot reports . The court sentenced him to three years in prison, but freed his sentence from serving a statute of limitations.

Shuvalov charged under Part 1 of Article 273 of the Criminal Code (creation, use and distribution of malicious computer programs). In 2011-2012, several resources were subjected to DDOS-Atams, covering the activities of civil society in Sochi, including the Sochi News, Greetings, Blogschi. Site administrators believed that attackers in this way tried to prevent the holding of meetings of citizens who expressed dissatisfaction with the results of elections to the State Duma.

One of the witnesses to the court called the founder of the Blogsochi resource Alexander Valov. According to him, Shuvalov at that time was an activist of the "Young Guard" United Russia. "

The regional department of Mger said that Ivan Shuvalov never officially took this organization. However, the Mediazone source claims that in 2011-12, Shuvalov was close to Mger and even was in the youth parliament of Sochi. “He was admitted to the youth parliament without elections and even had a privileged position there,” the source said. It is clear that now the “Young Guard” does not want to be associated with the organization, but I am sure that he was in some form. ”

In 2011-12, Mger actively tried to counteract the protest movement, including on the Internet. In February 2012, Mger opened the site "I am for fair elections" . The description of the project indicated that this is an all -Russian resource for those who "need a strong leader." Site visitors are invited to record a video about the need for honest elections, as well as to say for which candidate in the presidential election the author of the video offers to vote. The vast majority of published videos belonged to fans of Vladimir Putin. The presentation of the new resource was held on Pushkinskaya Square. The event was performed by Merg Timur Prokopenko and representatives of the leadership of the movement Alena Arshinov and Artem Turov.