"We will not hide anything." The Kremlin took possession of paranoia secretion?

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Aleksey Nikolskyi / Kremlin / Ria Novosti / Reuters

Last week, the State Duma adopted in third reading the presidential bill, adding powers to the Federal Security Service (FSO). Now she has the right to classify the personal data of officials under the state guard, including information about their real estate and bank accounts. As one of the leaders of the Russian branch of Transparency International, Ilya Shumanov,is noted , the list of persons under the state president is a secret and at any time can be expanded by decision of the president, which the public is most likely also not recognized. According to the law “On GOSTINE”, the president is endowed with the exclusive right to put a secrecy vulture on any information, as well as to endow the relevant authority of any officials and authorities that will help him in this responsible work.

Total secrecy was considered a form of Soviet paranoia. The passion for conspiracyology, in the words of the historian Simon Sebaga-Montifiora, poisoned the consciousness of the leaders of the revolution. She also determined approaches to the foreign and domestic policy of the government and the party until the last days of the USSR. Russia of the 1990s picked up this relay in many respects inertia. It was difficult to expect that state classification over time would not only decline, but, on the contrary, would receive a second wind - that the authorities would actually establish the streaming production of GOSTIAN. But this is what happens in recent years. “The number of classified categories of information is growing,” the “team 29” human rights association states , “and new cases related to the state secret appear almost monthly.” In what areas, controlled by the state and personally, Vladimir Putin, increasing secrecy is especially acute?

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