The presentation of the GNU Taler payment system took place on the personal website of Taler.net. According to the developers, “Thaler is a new electronic payment system created in the collaboration of Inria (Institute National de Recherche en informatique et en automatique, the State Institute for Research in Informatics and Automation, France). According to our expectations, this payment system will become available to the general public in 2016.

Currently, the necessary investigative actions are being carried out, the investigation of the criminal case is ongoing. A woman who bought a recorder in the form of a flash drive through an online store faces a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles in accordance with the Cathedral of 138.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation-“Illegal circulation of special technical means intended for the unspoken receipt of information” (introduced by the Federal Law of December 7, 2011 No. 420-ФЗ).

“I would really like to hope that our law enforcement agencies and power structures that have the opportunity to receive any personal information of our users do this for the good and protection of our country, if the drain of such correspondence helped prevent serious consequences, terrorist attacks, then it may be for the better.” The reaction of journalists and social networks was not long in coming: In the last tweet, apparently, the hint of the too frequent detention by security officials

The final text of the resonance bill of the State Duma of Kazakov and Yushchenko on the regulation of the activities of news aggregators, apparently, will be softened to the second reading, which will be held at the end of this week.