Andrei Soldatov is a Russian security services expert, and together with Irina Borogan, co-founder of the Agentura.Ru web site. Last year, Soldatov and Borogan co-authored The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs).
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Published in: oDRThe Kremlin and the hackers: partners in crime?The recent Russian parliamentary and presidential elections were notable for the wide use of cyber attacks on the...
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Published in: oDRThe Kremlin versus the bloggers: the battle for cyberspaceThe Russian authorities became aware of the power of social media late, but have since been making up for lost time...
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Published in: oDRProject_ID: Who’s bugging the Russian opposition?The 2011-12 election cycle has seen the full catalogue of dirty surveillance tricks return to Russian politics, from...
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Published in: oDRJust business: how Russian technology provides the eyes and ears for the world’s Big BrothersIn December 2011, Wikileaks released ‘Spy Files’, a project revealing details of the burgeoning surveillance and...
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Published in: oDRThe Police International vs Russia’s football fansAs Russia’s largest and best organised ‘horizontal’ community in Russia, football fans have found themselves at the...
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Published in: oDRSmall deeds, no politicsMoscow’s protest movement is gathering momentum, bringing in greater numbers and a wider constituency of supporters....