The Savelovsky Court of Moscow rejected the claim of Muscovite Alena Popova, who demanded to ban facial recognition by urban video surveillance systems, since their use violates the law on personal data. It is reported by MBH Media . Alena Popova filed a lawsuit in early October. According to her, she learned about the tracking system in Moscow in July. The activist came out with a single picket, her face was recorded by a street camera.

The largest microloan organizations are controlled by the ex-wife of President Vladimir Putin, as well as the children of oligarchs and former state managers, the Sobesednik found out. The debt burden of Russian residents has reached a maximum since 2012. To pay off some debts, many people take on new ones, often getting money from microloan offices. In terms of growth, the microfinance market in Russia has already surpassed consumer lending to banks.

The heads of the US defense and intelligence agencies have issued a joint appeal in which US citizens are warned about the possible interference of Russia and several other countries in the upcoming presidential elections and urged to report suspicious activity. The statement is posted on the website of the US Department of Defense. It notes that many states are holding local elections, and in 2020 presidential elections will be held.

The prosecutor's office dropped charges of drug trafficking against Yevgeny Rogalev, who had previously called his criminal case a provocation by the security forces and opened his veins during the trial, Rain reports . Yevgeny Rogalev was accused of selling drugs and two thefts causing significant damage. During the debate on September 25, the state prosecution requested nine years in prison for him. Rogalev then opened his veins.

The father of the soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov, who shot eight colleagues, called hazing the cause of the incident. The conscript himself accused the dead of threatening to rape him. Salim Shamsutdinov, who visited his son in a pre-trial detention center, told RBC that hazing between colleagues forced his son to commit the murder. “What could bring him out? It is immediately clear - hazing, constant long-term bullying of him.

The decision to impose the purchase of gadgets with pre-installed programs from state-controlled companies speaks well of the state of affairs with Russian software products at the end of Putin's 20-year rule. The authorities of the country want to impose on citizens the purchase of gadgets with pre-installed programs of "Russian" companies controlled by the authorities. How “Russian” they are, who owns them and how is a separate issue.

Very many, I noticed, were encouraged by Putin's interest in linguistics They combed their tongues, parasites, commemorate in their frivolity now Cheyne, now Stokes ... Evil you. You won't have Cheyne or Stokes. And there will be 2024, and then, in accordance with the next Constitution, 2030 and beyond everywhere.

You are on the right path of the luminary of science, Vladimir Vissarionovich Finally, Putinism has reached the questions of linguistics. The President is concerned about the fate of the Russian language, which is threatened by unnamed "Russophobes". And he ordered to stop kowtowing before the West: he recommended replacing the uncontrolled Wikipedia with a domestic one - proven, selected, agreed and reliable from the point of view of the general line.

Officials have identified a list of threats that may threaten the Russian segment of the Internet. The draft government decree is being coordinated by the relevant ministries, Interfax reports , citing a source in one of the departments.

The Constitutional Court has lifted the ban on holding mass rallies on the main square of Syktyvkar. Local bans on holding rallies in certain places cannot be based on arbitrary spatial and territorial restrictions on the right of citizens to peacefully assemble, the court ruling says, Vedomosti reports.

The Conservative Party of Great Britain, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, regularly receives money from Russian businessmen and lobbying interests of the Kremlin of companies. Recently, financing has increased, writes Opendemocracy In the UK, against the background of the scandal with the “concealment” Prime Minister Boris Johnson, information about the new major donations to conservatives from Russian lobbyists surfaced the Russian referendum.

UPD: for 100 thousand rubles. the court fined Alexander Cherkasov, the head of Memorial Human Rights Center. Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol against him because the Facebook page of the Ingush representative office of Memorial did not have the marking of a foreign agent. *** The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined the international society "Memorial" 300,000 rubles for violating the law on foreign agents.

The Cypriot authorities have begun the process of deprivation of citizenship of 26 people, including nine Russians. All of them received citizenship through an investment program in the country's economy, Interfax reports a Bloomberg report. In addition to Russians, eight Cambodians, five Chinese, two Kenyans, one Iranian and one Malaysian may lose their Cypriot passport.

In 2019, the Moscow City Hall seriously began introducing smart cameras with a facial recognition system. At the same time, as Novaya Gazeta writes, neural networks can identify a person not only by their face, but also by their silhouette. You can recognize a person's identity even if his face is hidden under a mask. Moscow is closely cooperating with China in the development of the city's video surveillance system.

75.5% of residents of large Russian cities do not save money for a future pension, a survey by Raiffeisenbank showed, RBC reports . Almost 40% of survey participants said that they would like to form savings for retirement, but do not have the financial ability. 8.3% of respondents regularly save money, and 16.3% save for retirement when free money appears.