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FSB to closely supervise Internet in Russia

From the Eurasian Security Services Daily Review was an interesting item on oversight of internet use by Security Services

 

FSB to closely supervise Internet in Russia

In several months and in the best traditions of the Cold War, Russian security services will get a unique opportunity to deprive with of the right to read and write all those who live in the territory of the Russian Federation, online paper RUpor.info reports.

All horrors of the censorship described by George Orwell in his novel, 1984, would seem children's pranks in comparison with that what will receive at their disposal the FSB and other supervising agencies and their work will be simplified up to extremely small scale. According to The Guardian, by analogy to China, the Russian users of the Internet will be completely disconnected from the foreign traffic through which access to the majority of free resources is possible.

 

Pasted from <http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1467>

   

The complete item is the fourth item in the 13 Jan 2008 issue

Director CIA Announces Declassification Winfall

22 June 2007 - Online Washington Post had this report on the Central Intelligence Agencies General Hayden's remarks to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference. The General's remarks focused on the value to historians and academics of this release of a broad spectrum of material covering the Cold War, some it going back to 1953.  The Post piece highlighted some of the "more interesting" items covered in the the release. 

Link pointing to the General's remarks is the newly refurbished public web site (www.cia.gov).  The Library and the FOIA Electronic Reading Room links are well worth a look. 

To see more on this release click here