These thousands of employees and veterans of the Russian foreign intelligence service were in the public domain. Their names can be found through official sites thanks to the decrees of the Moscow City Hall. She received residential buildings built for special services for the balance and did not hide their addresses. Such a statement is contained in the publication of The Insider.
The publication writes that the Moscow City Hall published orders on the receipt of houses built at the expense of the federal budget for foreign intelligence. As an example, the order of the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov on the building on Udaltsova Street, house 87, in the west of the city, signed in 2002.
Journalists managed to find 10 more documents with the transfer of objects on the same street, near the SVR headquarters in Yasenev in the south-west of the city and in the center. According to the publication that checked the addresses on the metropolitan address base, 2856 people received apartments in these houses, who should be somehow related to the special service. The surnames, names and patronymics of the owners of apartments in these houses can be obtained through official state bases, the publication notes.
One of the inhabitants of the houses discovered by The Insider told reporters that the publication of the city hall made the data of several hundred reconnaissance staff. Whether the special service undertook something based on the results of the leak-the publication does not report.