Today, the Agora International Human Rights Association presented the report “Freedom of the Internet - 2017: creeping criminalization”. Dedicated to the detailed review and analysis of the identified violations over the past year, it also sums up the results of a decade of non -governmental study of the Internet freedom in Russia. The co -author of the report Damir Gainutdinov told Republic about the main conclusions of the study and the most interesting figures, facts and observations from it.

Sergey Naryshkin and Alexander Bortnikov. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS The simultaneous visit to Washington at the end of January at once there are three Russian special services (SVR, FSB and GRU), despite the fact that the Director of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin and the chief of the GRU Igor Korobov are under personal American sanctions-an extraordinary event for the current confrontation state of Russian-American relations.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of fraud on theft of money from the budget of Dagestan. According to the official website of the SK, the money was intended for the implementation of social programs in the Republic.

At the end of December 2017, the American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted for the abolition of network neutrality. In 2018, similar measures began to be discussed in Russia. Republic and researchers of the club of Internet and society lovers figured out what the abolition of network neutrality leads to and how this will affect users and market participants. What is network neutrality?

Gennady Zyuganov and Pavel Grudinin. Photo: Kirill Kalinnikov / RIA Novosti Who is the most fierce enemy of Russia today? The newspapers will not lie: - In the suburbs, a meeting of the shareholders deceived by Grudinin was held ; - You are not left.

A special commission of the International Olympic Committee refused 13 athletes and two coaches, previously inappropriate to use doping for sports arbitration in Lausanne (CAS), in an invitation to the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. This was reported in the press release of the IOC. “The commission agreed that the CAS decision did not remove suspicions of doping, not providing the commission with sufficient confidence that the data of 13 athletes can be considered clean,” the report said.

Pilot of Roman Filipov, who died on February 3 in Syria, posthumously presented to the title of Hero of Russia. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Defense. The military department also reported that Filipov, after his plane was shot down, managed to report to the command that he was attacked by a rocket.

The next meeting within the framework of the Republic Talk is about what happened in the Big Data field over the past year , what hopes associated with the processing of big data did not materialize, and which came true in an unforeseen way. Our guest is George Held , Vice President of the development of digital and new business, Beeline , studied at Harvard Business School and MIT, worked in the USA, Europe, Asia, Africa and the UAE. Perhaps the conversation will take another turn.

Skvortsov and Roshal stood up for a hematologist. But not everyone is so lucky Hematologist Elena Misyurina in the Moscow City Court. Photo: Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant On Monday, the Moscow City Court released from the guard of hematologist Elena Misurin, found by the court of first instance, guilty of the patient’s death and sentenced for this to two years in prison. Now Misyurin, before the sentence enters into legal force, will be under subscription about the lower room.

The high court of Seoul doubled the term for the conclusion of the vice president and the actual head of the Samsung Electronics Co. Lee Jae Yona let him go to freedom. The execution of the sentence was postponed for four years - in 2022 he will still have to go to jail for 2.5 years, Bloomberg reports . Lee Jae Yong spent in custody for about a year. In February 2017, he was arrested on charges of giving bribes. Four organizations received about $ 40 million from the actual head of Samsung.

The human rights organization "Agora" issued the report "Freedom of the Internet 2017: creeping criminalization" dedicated to the restrictions of the Internet in Russia. According to Agora, in 2017, 244 Internet pages were blocked daily, every eight days the court sentenced a person to imprisonment for the information posted on the Internet, and every six days users were attacked. All these figures increased compared to 2016.

The policy of Alexei Navalny was summoned for interrogation to the Investigative Committee. He himself reported this on Twitter. As Navalny said, the police brought him the summons home at half a half in the morning. Now, a check is being conducted against him in the case of beating police officers during his detention on January 28. Navalny also published a video on Instagram, in which the moment of detention is visible.

A few years ago, the head of the PRC Xi Jinping said that the survival of the ruling party, in fact - the existing system, "depends on public support." All available funds are used to save it. A system of total electronic control is created in the country, detailed dossiers to people ( social ratings ) are compiled, this is accompanied by ideological processing in various forms - from the Internet , where hundreds of thousands of pro -government bloggers operate to revived re -education camps .

The Chinese online retailer AliExpress will launch a new Luokoster trading platform in Russia. According to RBC with reference to the company representative, goods worth up to 600 rubles will be sold there. First of all, the new brand is designed for a youth audience, as well as for those who have never made purchases on AliExpress. Initially, “Lawkoster” will be launched in the AliExpress mobile application.