Am Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2024, 14:26:57 CEST schrieb Gordon Lennox: > I have several good memories of him, both in Moscow and in Brussels, when > he was deputy minister. cite from article: > > https://cepa.org/article/russia-jails-the-father-of-russias-internet
"Very few in Russia believe in the government charges against a man widely known as a Father of the Russian Internet — and who is less well known as the father of Andrei Soldatov, one of this article’s authors." hmm, this claims are unfortunately subjective and not helpful / no journalism at all. Who are "very few" and who are the names of the other ppl cited. And "believing" is a personal thing... "Soldatov was accused of abuse of power when managing a pool of IP-addresses by an organization he had no position at. This legal absurdity was enough to see him imprisoned..." How the author came to the conculsion of a "legal absurdity"? Are there any details about the crime case available? To me this (at least) sounds like a corruption case (even if the translation "abuse of power" sounds bit weird to western terms, it could be a typical term for what we know more general as "corruption") and without any hard details, it is difficult to understand if these claims against his person are correct or without any base. But from my experiences in (not only) ex-sovjet countries, it would be not the first case of real / large scale corruption by "abusing" a - historically grown - "powerful position" in the countries IP scene in ex. sovjet and even other countries. Unfortunately, the arcticle is not bringing any light to the hints / base of the case. just my .02 € niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet https://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc --- ----- To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, please visit: https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/ripe-list.ripe.net/ As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/
