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.