VKontakte unofficially provided Center E with information about activists from Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa

The social network VKontakte handed over to the Center for Combating Extremism information about the activists of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Ufa. about this on Twitter . wrote Leonid Volkov, the head of Navalny's federal headquarters,

Volkov attached to the tweet an email correspondence between the VKontakte security service and an employee of the E Center, from which it follows that law enforcement officers requested information without a court decision or an investigator’s order.

Center "E" was interested in the group "Team Navalny | Ufa”, remote group “28.01 Ufa chooses a strike”, as well as users Denis Korolev and Fedor Telin. In particular, Center “E” asked the social network for the time and date of creation of the pages, the phone number and e-mail of the owner of the page, as well as the IP addresses from which the page was created and from which users accessed it from January 1 to January 18.

UPD 14:09 The VKontakte press service contacted the editors of OVD-Info and commented on the situation.

According to her representative, the fact of the presence or absence of an initiated criminal case from the point of view of the law does not matter - according to the law "On Police" and the law "On Investigative Activities", the social network is obliged to provide law enforcement agencies with the necessary information.

The representative of VKontakte noted that the administration of the social network considers it necessary to improve the legislation.

In addition, according to him, interaction with law enforcement officers takes place officially, the security service of the social network always checks every request and requires the provision of all documents through official channels. An employee of the social network said that in this case, an official written request was also received.

He noted that inappropriately executed requests remain unanswered. Moreover, according to him, the legitimacy of the requests was challenged several times in court.