Андрей Солдатов: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

The document is available at wcitleaks.org, http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/Merged%20UAE%20081212.pdf.

Dave Burstein and Grahame Lynch, “WCIT Bombshell: Russia Withdraws Internet Regulation Push, Apparently Under ITU Pressure,” Commsday.com, December 10, 2012, www.commsday.com/commsday-australasia/russia-combines-with-china-arab-states-on-dramatic-internet-regulatory-push.

AFP, “Confusion on Internet Future After UN Treaty Split,” December 16, 2012, www.securityweek.com/confusion-internet-future-after-un-treaty-split.

Eric Pfanner, “U.S. Rejects Telecommunications Treaty,” New York Times , December 13, 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/technology/14iht-treaty14.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&.

The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “Fact Sheet: U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Information and Communications Technology Security,” June 17, 2013, www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/17/fact-sheet-us-russian-cooperation-information-and-communications-technol.

Ewan MacAskill, “Putin Calls Internet a ‘CIA Project’ Renewing Fears of Web Breakup,” Guardian , April 24, 2014, www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/vladimir-putin-web-breakup-internet-cia.

Minkomsvyaz Rossii, “Rabota nad itogovimi documentami NETmundial-2014 neprozrachna” [The Ministry of Communications of Russia: The Work on Resulting Documents of NETmundial 2014 is Nontransparent], April 25, 2014, http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/events/30026.

Andrew Mitrovica, “The Troublemaker,” UofTMagazine , Autumn 2009, www.magazine.utoronto.ca/autumn-2009/profile-of-u-of-t-citizen-lab-founder-professor-ron-deibert.

The copy is in authors’ possession.

UK Office of National Statistics, “Visits to the UK for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics,” April 19, 2013, www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/ott/travel-trends/2012/sty-visits-to-the-uk.html.

Eli Lake, “Why the FBI Didn’t Make Much of Russia’s Request to Probe Boston Bomber,” Daily Beast , April 22, 2013, www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/22/why-the-fbi-didn-t-make-much-of-russia-s-request-to-probe-boston-bomber.html.

“Kremlin: Russia, US to Step Up Counter-Terrorism Cooperation,” Reuters, NBC, April 20, 2013, http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/20/17836295-kremlin-russia-us-to-step-up-counter-terrorism-cooperation.

David Wise, “The FBI-Russia Connection,” Reuters, May 9, 2013, http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/05/09/the-fbi-russia-connection.

“Britain to Provide Security for Sochi Olympics,” News24 Online, May 11, 2013, http://news24online.com/britain-to-provide-security-for-sochi-olympics.

The Presidential Executive Order No. 686, “On Peculiarities of Applying Enhanced Security Measures During the XXII Winter Olympic Games and the XI Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi in 2014.” On January 4, 2014, Putin signed Executive Order “On Amendments to the Order 686,” and the amendments allowed the protests during the Games but in a specially designated place—in the park twelve miles from the city and only after they agreed with the Interior Ministry and the FSB. See Kremlin, http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/6491.

Fred Weir, “Russia’s Sochi Games: Why You May Want to Leave Your Laptop at Home,” Christian Science Monitor , October 7, 2013, www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/1007/Russia-s-Sochi-Games-Why-you-may-want-to-leave-your-laptop-at-home.

“Let’s Just Put Some Random Words: FSB, Sochi, Spying,” Voice of Russia , October 9, 2013, http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2013_10_09/Let-s-just-put-some-random-words-FSB-Sochi-spying-4373.

Nikita Sorokin, “Don’t Be Scared of Phone Tapping During Sochi-2014, It’s for Your Own Safety—Experts,” Voice of Russia , October 10, 2013, http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2013_10_10/Dontt-be-scared-of-phone-tapping-during-Sochi-2014-its-for-your-own-safety-experts-5489.

Ibid.

The decree No. 1003 “Ob osobennostyakh okazania uslug svyazi i o poryadke vzaimodeistvia operatorov svyazi s upolnomochennimi gosudarstvennimi organami, osushestvlyaushimi operativno-razysknuyu deyatelnost, na territorii g. Sochi v period provedenia XXII Olimpiyskikh zimnikh igr i XI Paralimpiyskikh zimnikh igr 2014 goda v g. Sochi” [Details of the Provision of Telecommunications Services, and on the Interaction of Operators with the State Authorities Conducting Operational Search Activities on the Territory of Sochi During the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi], Rossiyskaya Gazeta , November 8, 2013, www.rg.ru/2013/11/13/opera-site-dok.html.

Shaun Walker, “MEPs Raise Concerns Over Sochi Winter Olympics Surveillance Plans,” Guardian , November 13, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/meps-concerns-sochi-winter-olympics-surveillance.

“Islamic Group Claims Volgograd Attacks and Threatens Sochi Visitors,” Associated Press, January 20, 2014, www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/islamic-group-claims-volgograd-threatens-sochi.

Nataliya Vasilyeva, interview with authors, March 2014.

Nikolai Levshits, “Sochi-2014: Zaslon dlya ne loyalnikh” [Sochi 2014: The Wall for Not Loyal], New Times , January 27, 2014.

Paul Sonne, Gregory L. White, and Joshua Robinson, “Russian Officials Fire Back at Olympic Critics,” Wall Street Journal , February 6, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579366712107461956.

Umberto Bacchi, “Sochi Winter Olympics: Circassian Protest Website NoSochi2014 Hacked on Games’ Eve,” International Business Times , February 7, 2014, www.ibtimes.co.uk/sochi-winter-olympics-circassian-protest-website-nosochi2014-hacked-games-eve-1435553.

The account is based on Anastasia Kirilenko, interview with authors, March 2014.

Joshua Yaffa, “The Waste and Corruption of Vladimir Putin’s 2014 Winter Olympics,” Bloomberg, January 2, 2014, www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014–01–02/the-2014-winter-olympics-in-sochi-cost-51-billion; and Thomas Grove, “Special Report: Russia’s $50 Billion Olympic Gamble,” Reuters, February 21, 2013, www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-russia-sochi-idUSBRE91K04M20130221.

On April 4, 2014, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry sent a note to Moscow demanding to clarify the circumstances of presence of FSB Colonel-General Sergei Beseda in Kiev on February 20 and 21. The next day the Russian news agency Interfax, citing security sources, confirmed that Sergei Beseda was indeed in the Ukrainian capital on February 20–21, “Russia’s FSB Says Top Officer Went to Kiev for ‘Security,’” AFP, April 5, 2014. For details, see James Marson, “Russia Fails to Make Deeper Inroads in Ukraine—For Now,” Wall Street Journal , April 10, 2014, www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579491641537737078.