A quick Google reveals several articles about this case https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/24/russia-jails-scientist-alexey-soldatov-pioneer-internet/ https://apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-soldatov-1515f320ea6e332574f38d0320a69b5f
I am also saddened to hear of this unjust sentence. Leslie On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 5:56 AM Niels Dettenbach via ripe-list <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ ----- 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/
