The draft order approves the requirements for the technological, software, linguistic, legal and organizational tools for ensuring the use of the blocked resources system. This summer was adopted by the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council and then signed by the President of the Russian Federation Putin Putin on the regulation of VPN, anonymizers, Proxy and search engines regarding the ban on bypassing state blocking on the Internet.

According to experts of the antivirus development company ESET, the number of cyber attacks with the participation of popular torrent applications and file-sharing services is growing. ESET specialists analyzed cyber attacks aimed at torrent users. Since the beginning of 2016, the ESET telemetry system has recorded 15 million incidents in which the loading of malicious code has been associated with popular torrent applications and file exchange services.

In the document, candidates of legal sciences Damir Gainutdinov and Pavel Chikov talk about how the Russian authorities build a system of total control over citizens. This report of the Agora international human rights group covers the period from May 2016 to April 2017 and is to a certain extent a continuation of the report “Russia under the supervision” dedicated to the Russian authorities for political reasons for various surveillance technologies a year ago.