Russians who have access to state secrets must notify the FSB and SVR about traveling abroad. You may not even know you have this clearance, here's how to check. 1 What's happened? Putin signed a provision according to which senators, deputies, heads of municipalities, as well as all Russians who have access to state secrets and “knowledge of information of special importance or top secret information” must notify the FSB and the Foreign Intelligence Service of their intention to travel abroad.

Discord is a messenger that was originally created for computer game lovers. But there is a problem: most often, users do not think about data security and, in the same application, send memes to each other, receive congratulations from relatives, discuss the trade secrets of their companies and share ways to survive under dictatorship. Chatting about sensitive topics on Discord is not safe. Let's explain why. 1 What is this application?

In Russia, anti-terrorism laws are used to persecute dissidents. According to Amnesty International, the number of convictions for committing “crimes of a terrorist nature” that do not directly include terrorist acts (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) has increased 50 times over the past ten years.

Everyone knows that chemical weapons are scary, but few understand exactly how they work, what they are like, and why they are prohibited if other deadly weapons are allowed. We explain what chemical weapons are, how they were used, and why almost all countries now claim that they got rid of them a long time ago. 1 What are chemical weapons? It is any chemical substance specifically designed to cause death or other harm through its toxic properties.