Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2024, 12:47:58 schrieb Daniel Karrenberg via ripe- list:
They cite a meduza piece in English from 2019 with a lot of detail too. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/31/soviet-internet-sovereignty
Take your own conclusions. There is nothing in that article which gives at least the opportunity to lead to a more then subjective conclusion. Nothing except a lot of hearsay...
My conclusion is that Alexei Soldatov is treated in the all too familiar way that Russian Czars have dealt with people who did a lot for country and society but who -themselves or whose close relatives- say and do things that are inconvenient for the current Czars.
Sorry, but this is a purely subjective conclusion as well. Could you deliver hard facts for that? I.e. original court documents / proceedings - even original in russian (i can read russian)? even in todays russia such documents are produced in courts. This is not sovjet aera anymore... From my personal experience (i was grown up in GDR and live part time in ex sovjet countries today), i know that corruption in the telco / IP scene of (not only) ex sovjet countries was/is real. And i remember too that some of the cases are used against formerly privileged people when their government wants to get rid of them while the corruption is a´tolerated in other cases. But the corruption as such is real on the other hand: If he did nothing wrong, it would be on his interest to publish the complete story with all details / court documents - not just: "some are believing", "others are saying" and "some investiogators are meaning" - that way we dont find juridical conclusions in a true, free and fair court process. cheers, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet https://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---