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In recent years, a comprehensive system of monitoring civil activists, journalists and an opposition has been created in Russia, which have been covered by at least several thousand people. This is stated in the submitted by the International Human Rights Group "The Report" Russia under the supervision - 2017: how the authorities build a system of total control over citizens " published by the publication of Republic.

"The built system of control over citizens includes the registration system at the place of stay and residence, control of displacements, electronic surveillance, listening to telephone negotiations and monitoring correspondence, maintaining various registers and bases of preventive accounting of certain categories of persons, administrative supervision," the document says.

In addition, illegal methods are also actively used, in particular, hacking Internet accounts. The intensity of the intervention of security forces into the private life of citizens is constantly increasing. Only the number of requests for listening to telephone conversations and interception of correspondence since 2007 has increased more than three times.

"Often, information about certain persons, first of all, political activists, popular bloggers and journalists are consciously transmitted to representatives of informal power associations or state media. In the first case, for conducting intimidation shares, in the second - shooting propaganda stories," the report said.

Also, security forces are practiced by the creation of "black lists", which feature "unreliable" faces and organizations. "Having entered such a list guarantees increased attention of law enforcement agencies, constant inspections, detention and inspections," the authors of the report emphasize.

“The Russian authorities clearly intend to collect the maximum possible amount of information not only about all residents of the Russian Federation and those who enter the country temporarily,” the document says. “Despite the creation of legal conditions for collecting information about almost all residents of the country, there are a lot of evidence of the technical and financial inability of the authorities to collect, store them and all the more qualitatively.”

As an example, the authors of the report give the “Yarovaya Law, which is required for the implementation of. According to various estimates, from 130 billion to 10 trillion rubles. The authorities in the conditions of the economic crisis are clearly not ready to take on the huge expenses required for the entire range of electronic surveillance measures for citizens,” the document says. Internet services, which are also not at all happy with such a "gift", have already begun to raise prices for services. "

The International Human Rights Group Agora Association of more than 50 lawyers-employees working in resonant cases of violation of human rights. To date, its employees are at the same time more than 300 cases in most regions of Russia. The report "Russia under the supervision" was prepared by the head of the "Agora" lawyer Pavel Chikov and the legal analyst of the group Damir Gainutdinov.