In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Roskomnadzor (RKN) found 210,000 “fake” and “inaccurate materials” on the Internet and deleted most of them. But this was not enough for the regulator: according to the RKN, even after that, the audience of “forbidden” information in Telegram and YouTube reaches 100 million people. These figures testify to the scale of censorship that RuNet faced after the start of the war. Details .

Roskomnadzor since 2019 regularly has been monitoring opposition posts on social networks. Officials are judging by the publications of famous journalists, bloggers and analysts about protest moods on the Internet, including Alexander Plyushchev, Ruslan Leviev, Mark Feigin. But instead of gratitude for the work on reporting for the RKN of the opposition agenda, these journalists and bloggers receive the status of “foreign” one by one. Details .

Roskomnadzor has filed dossiers on several dozen independent journalists, public figures and the media. The "Agency" managed to find in the database of internal documents of Roskomnadzor, posted by Belarusian cyber partisans , certificates for 30 people and 20 publications. Details . Most of the certificates were compiled in 2022, only a few in 2021.

Roskomnadzor sent hundreds of letters to foreign social networks demanding to cancel the blocking of Russian accounts and posts. At the same time, the department stood up not only for officials or government agencies, but also for individuals who were ideologically close to the authorities. The “Agency” learned about this from the documents of the media regulator, which were posted online by Belarusian cyber partisans . Details .

Roskomnadzor every day tracks posts about the health of Vladimir Putin, all found publications are collected in tables. This is evidenced by the hacking of the computer system of the main radio frequency center - a unit of the media regulator, which was carried out by the group of Belarusian hackers "Cyberpartisana". Details .

Roskomnadzor and its unit are the main radio frequency center (GRCHC) after a few months should be launched by a bot farm, which received the official name "Automated System" Pure Internet. " This is stated in the internal correspondence of the media controller, which was hacked by the Belarusian cyber partisans . This is one of the few documented cases of botherability for budget money. Details .

The hacking of the computer network of the “Main Radio Frequency Center” (GRCHC), implemented by the Belarusian group of hackers “Cyberpartisana”, led to the largest leak of documents in the history of Roskomnadzor (GRChz - Service Unit).

The European Jewish Congress, Europe's largest Jewish organization, may soon run out of funds, the head of a European Jewish organization told Haaretz newspaper. EJC funding problems arose after Vyacheslav Kantor, the owner of the Russian mineral fertilizer producer Acron, who left the EJC presidency in April last year, was included in the EU and UK sanctions lists. Details. Kantor annually financed the work of the congress for millions of dollars, the newspaper writes.

The European External Action Service released an analysis of the disinformation campaigns that were promoted last fall. The authors of the report found that Russia launched most of these campaigns, and the most popular plot for Russian propaganda was "Western aggression against Russia." The diplomatic service came to the conclusion that Russia is turning into a "country of total propaganda." Details.

The war in Ukraine reduced Russia's defense capabilities on the border with the Baltic countries that are members of NATO for years, according to the annual report "International Security and Estonia 2023" by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS). Details. Estonian intelligence believes that the restoration of the combat capability of Russian units stationed near the borders of the Baltic countries will take up to four years.

The UK has updated its sanctions list. For the first time, Svetlana Krivonogikh, the mother of Vladimir Putin’s illegitimate daughter, came under restrictions. She was included in the sanctions list as a shareholder of Rossiya Bank. Details. Krivonogikh’s sanctions card does not mention her connection to Putin. London explains the restrictions against her participation in the business of Rossiya Bank.

The Russian government is discussing the first tax increase since the start of the war. So far, we are talking only about increasing the burden on business - the authorities are discussing the possibility of raising the corporate income tax, writes The Bell, citing sources. But it cannot be ruled out that, as a result, part of the tax burden may also fall on the population. Details.

The recession that Russia has faced since the start of the war is unlike any of the previous ones, writes Bloomberg Economics. Past crises have been accompanied by a sharp drop in private investment, but in 2022 the capital expenditures of Russian businesses rose by 6%, despite forecasts of a fall of up to 20%. Details. The agency notes that past economic crises, including in 2008 and 2014, were accompanied by a sharp drop in investment - more than 18% and 17%, respectively.

In Russian colonies, they began to use new methods of pressure on prisoners to force them to join the ranks of the Wagner PMC. As two lawyers and a human rights activist told the Agency, the convicts were threatened with new criminal cases if they did not agree to go to the front. And the prisoners in the pre-trial detention center are promised to be released from criminal prosecution if they go to Ukraine. Details.