SCANDAL. Forward to the past: FSB bans selling modems without a passport
FSB has remembered days when all radios receivers in the Soviet Union were subjected to obligatory registration, and is going to adapt old rules to the conditions of "information revolution", says InfoxRu website.
A draft prohibiting selling of USB-modems without a passport is being developed in the department.
Lawyers and technical experts are assured of meaninglessness of the initiatives of FSB: registration of the buyers of USB-modems actually would not identify the subscriber, as modems that work with networks of Wi-Fi and WiMAX, do not transmit registration information to the network.
Meanwhile the Lubyanka (FSB HQ) has considered selling USB-modems without a passport an "abnormal practice". As a result, the FSB is developing a draft that restricts selling of mobile devices.
Now, a passport is required when purchasing a USB-modem only in cases when the device is got along with a SIM-card, or when a contract with the subscriber is concluded at the purchasing.
The independent experts are surprised at the initiative of law enforcement agencies. They admit that they do not understand how a change in the rules of selling USB-modems will give the FSB new information on users.
There are modems designed to operate in networks, which provide a rigid identification of subscriber's terminal, it is a GSM and CDMA. This allows you to attach a hardware ID to the individual subscriber. As for Wi-Fi and WiMAX, that modem is not transmitting to the network registration information, it is absolutely senseless to sell them by passport.
Wi-Fi or WiMAX networks works with any modem, that address to them, so it is not a problem to buy a modem in Ukraine and use it in Moscow", experts commenting on the initiative of FSB.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
Russian commander 'used' special troops to block police search of relative's factory
One of Russia's most senior military commanders is being investigated over claims he used special forces troops to block a police search of a factory owned by his fugitive son-in-law.
The allegations, made in the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta, have prompted the defence ministry to launch a probe that threatens the career of Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, head of Russia's airborne troops.
A Kremlin favourite, the general is a decorated Hero of Russia and commanded Russian forces in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia last year.
The scandal is an awkward test case for the Kremlin's high-profile war on corruption, while Kremlin critics say it confirms their fears that the practice of abusing official office for personal ends has become routine.
"This is simply beyond the realm of good and evil," Yevgenia Albats, editor of liberal magazine New Times, told Ekho Moskvy radio. "That General Shamanov takes Special Forces troops and sends them off to solve his personal issues is a nightmare situation."
The allegations are backed by a leaked police intercept of General Shamanov's mobile telephone conversations in which he is heard ordering a subordinate to mobilise twenty Special forces troops to stop and "intern" a police investigator trying to search a Moscow factory. According to Novaya Gazeta, the factory, valued at up to m, is owned by the general's son-in-law. His son sits on the board, and his daughter is laying claim to half ownership. The general's son-in-law is a fugitive from justice who is wanted for attempted murder.
General Shamanov told Novaya Gazeta he refused to comment on what he said was a personal matter, dismissing the allegations as provocative rumours. If he does lose his job, human rights activists will not shed any tears. They accuse him of presiding over numerous war crimes in Chechnya. The General, 52, denies wrongdoing.
Source: Agencies
Kavkaz Center
Puppet Dagestani Official Killed in Moscow
A senior Dagestan official who survived three assassination attempts at home has
been shot dead by gunmen in southwestern Moscow, investigators said Monday.
One suspect, a 32-year-old Dagestani resident, was detained while apparently
driving a getaway car.
Two gunmen fired at least 20 rounds at Alim-Sultan Alkhmatov, head of Dagestan's
Khasavyurt district, from automatic rifles as he and two bodyguards got out of a
car at about 8:15 p.m. Sunday at 21/1 Novocheryomushkinskaya Ulitsa, the
Investigative Committee said.
One bodyguard was wounded in the attack.
Alkhmatov, 44, died from his injuries while being rushed to the hospital in an
ambulance.
"The actions of the group of criminals were very well-planned," Anatoly
Bagmet, chief of the Moscow branch of the Investigative Committee, said in
remarks from the crime scene broadcast on Vesti-24 state television.
Source: Agencies
Kavkaz Center
Aissatou Nafi Maiga
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