Русский киберпанк. Как Кремль и олигархи строят 'цифровой ГУЛАГ' — и кто этому сопротивляется

Mnogie vosprinimai͡ut Rossii͡u kak stranu pobedivshego "t͡sifrovogo GULAGa". Na samom dele situat͡sii͡a interesnee i slozhnee: sovremennai͡a Rossii͡a - strana pobedivshego kiberpanka. Kak ustroena sistema proslushki vsekh telefonnykh razgovorov i internet-trafika ot FSB - i kak ostavatʹsi͡a nevidimym dli͡a nee? Deĭstvitelʹno li Pavel Durov sdaet nashu perepisku v Telegram po zvonku s Lubi͡anki? Kak Khristo Grozev do sikh por spokoĭno pokupaet na rynke probiva samye chuvstvitelʹnye personalʹnye dannye - i deĭstvitelʹno li ėtot rynok kryshui͡ut siloviki? Smogut li vlasti postroitʹ "Cheburnet"? Kniga odnogo iz vedushchikh russkoi͡azychnykh zhurnalistov-rassledovateleĭ Andrei͡a Zakharova sobiraet ėti udivitelʹnye istorii i desi͡atki drugikh v edinoe povestvovanie, v kotorom mozhno naĭti mnogo prichin uzhasnutʹsi͡a, no mozhno obnaruzhitʹ i nadezhdu: nesmotri͡a na to, chto gosudarstvo godami pytaetsi͡a postavitʹ t͡sifrovoe prostranstvo pod kontrolʹ, rossii͡ane ėtomu nebezuspeshno soprotivli͡ai͡utsi͡a i podryvai͡ut usilii͡a Kremli͡a. Andreĭ Zakharov - rossiĭskiĭ zhurnalist-rassledovatelʹ, pi͡atikratnyĭ laureat i chlen zhi͡uri ezhemesi͡achnoĭ zhurnalistskoĭ premii "Redkollegii͡a". Rabotai͡a korrespondentom, a zatem nachalʹnikom otdela ėkonomiki i biznesa v "Fontanke.ru", stal avtorom rassledovanii͡a o mediakholdinge "fabriki trolleĭ", izvestnom svoim flagmanskim izdaniem RIA FAN i predpolozhitelʹno svi͡azannom s Evgeniem Prigozhinym. V 2016-2018 godakh rabotal spet͡sialʹnym korrespondentom v zhurnale RBK. V 2017 godu rassledoval dei͡atelʹnostʹ rossiĭskoĭ "fabriki trolleĭ" i rossiĭskoe vmeshatelʹstvo v vybory prezidenta SShA v 2016 godu. S oseni 2018 goda do 2022 goda rabotal spet͡sialʹnym korrespondentom Russkoĭ sluzhby Bi-bi-si. Rabotal v izdanii "Proekt", gde v 2020 godu sovmestno s Romanom Badaninym byl avtorom rassledovanii͡a, v kotorom vyi͡asnilosʹ o Svetlane Krivonogikh - peterburzhenke, ot kotoroĭ u prezidenta Rossii Vladimira Putina predpolozhitelʹno estʹ dochʹ po imeni Elizaveta (Luiza Rozova). 8 okti͡abri͡a 2021 goda vnesen Mini͡ustom Rossii v reestr SMI i fizlit͡s, vypolni͡ai͡ushchikh funkt͡sii inostrannogo agenta.

Many perceive Russia as the country of the victorious "digital Gulag". In fact, the situation is more interesting and more complicated: modern Russia is the country of the victorious cyberpunk. How does the system of wiretapping all telephone conversations and Internet traffic from the FSB work — and how to remain invisible to it? Is Pavel Durov really submitting our correspondence to Telegram on a call from Lubyanka? How does Hristo Grozev still calmly buy the most sensitive personal data on the probiv market — and is this market really being protected by the security forces? Will the authorities be able to build Cheburnet? The book by Andrei Zakharov, one of the leading Russian-speaking investigative journalists, gathers these amazing stories and dozens of others into a single narrative in which you can find many reasons to be horrified, but you can also find hope: despite the fact that the state has been trying to control the digital space for years, Russians have been successfully resisting and undermining the Kremlin's efforts. Andrey Zakharov is a Russian investigative journalist, a five—time laureate and a member of the jury of the monthly Editorial Board Journalism Award. He worked as a correspondent and then as the head of the Economics and Business Department at Fontanka.<url>", became the author of an investigation into the Troll Factory media holding, known for its flagship publication RIA FAN and allegedly linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin. In 2016-2018, he worked as a special correspondent for RBC magazine. In 2017, he investigated the activities of the Russian "troll factory" and Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. From the fall of 2018 to 2022, he worked as a special correspondent for the BBC Russian Service. He worked for the publication The Project, where in 2020, together with Roman Badanin, he was the author of an investigation that revealed Svetlana Krivonogikh, a St. Petersburg woman with whom Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly has a daughter named Elizabeth (Luisa Rozova). On October 8, 2021, he was entered by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the register of mass media and individuals acting as a foreign agent.