For the creation of an online filing of the opposition – the potential and already existing victims of persecution, violence and arson of the property – there can be people close to the team of businessman Eugene Prigogine, found the Russian service Bi-bi-si.
More than 800 people who are critical of the current Russian government, listed in card file ( 1, 2) “scoundrels”, “the grim dirty faces” and “cockroaches” who should be “nailed shoes”.
Their personal data are published on the website under the guise of denunciations “colleagues” and “neighbors” are watching them, threatening them on social networks.
Threats sometimes come to life. Bi-bi-si has told about new victims of the “red guards”, there are already about five arsons of cars and four beatings of activists of the so-called blacklist of the site.
All the victims – from opposition activist Gregory Solominskogo whose car was torched on the night of the 28 may 2015, until the administrator of protest groups in social networks Yegor Alexeyev, beaten at the exit of the front 9 of June of 2016, from St. Petersburg.
All of them were in the popular group “Criminal power” in social network “Vkontakte”.
Another beating the victim asks you not to associate with this chain, although his pictures – as in other cases, secretly made in the street, appeared on the website shortly before the incident.
Don’t want – think
Now the ill-fated online filing Cabinet called “who is Who”; a mixture of Internet slang, and “high style” on the website cultivated the romance of denunciation.
“Cleaning the world network from “trolls”, people with high CDA [a feeling of grandeur] just scoundrels and failed skalds – you make the world a better place. Don’t want to? But think, and who, if not you?” reads the description of the site.
Description word for word repeats what was posted on the website “Wineblogger” which functioned at the addresses wikiblogger.ru, wikibloger.org, wikibloger.com and, possibly, wikibloger.net from 2013 to 2015.
“Wikiblogger” and “who is Who?” are identical and the lists of targets, and tactics of persecution. Once on the “Wikiblogger” there were photos of places where learning and children are walking one of the targets.
The version of the project under this name was closed in early 2016, in anticipation of a new wave of persecution, however, some of its pages can be found in the cache of search engines and website “Internet Archive”.
The black and white look
Bi-bi-si managed to find a former employee of a PR Agency, to promote “Wineblogger” at first. Here is what she said.
“There was constant confusion with the TOR [terms of reference] and personal wishes from the authorities with whom no one had not seen of ordinary workers,” says the lady. – Only when the site is launched, all who were on hand to distribute about a hundred bloggers and conditionally broke them into “black” and “white,” wrote a caustic accompanying summaries. Then within a few months this is copied, was transferred from “white” to “black” and Vice versa, came up with all sorts of viral videos and a front-end chippies on the site.
The editors were looking for new bloggers on “the Living magazine”, reading posts on the subject of relations to power. The authorities periodically swore and ordered a certain blogger to migrate to “black”, even though objectively he didn’t write – just, for example, repost a couple of cartoons for humor, not for the sake of extremism. In short, not enough on the website column of “gray”. Bosses don’t particularly like LJ and everywhere I saw only “black” or “white”.
The founders of the project, apparently, counting on the fact that nobody in the network will not know that this is a Pro-government order. But on the Internet I all at once realized, and then the “top” went doubt, interruptions in funding and so on. Most of the workers originally thought the idea stupid and that he left the project.”
The lady showed me the correspondence, from which it follows that one of the coordinators of the project in 2014 was Ekaterina Petaev (the names of the other chiefs, the interviewee could not remember).
Office of the project, she said, was in the hill “Mont Blanc” on the Bolshoy Sampsonievskiy prospect, 4-6.
Evidence
“Wineblogger” is mentioned ( 1, 2) in one of the spouts of the group of cyberactivists “Anonymous international”.
Plums, according to the authors, contains the correspondence of people close to the Kremlin chef” Eugene Prigogine.
Yevgeny Prigozhin has not responded to the request of the Russian service Bi-bi-si with a request for comments.
On the basis of plum, some related to Prigogine, the company was able to Finance a St. Petersburg factory trolley” – a few hundred people who praise the Russian government and criticize the opposition on the Internet.
The website for denunciations, for the same data, at a cost of 110 thousand rubles per month.
Published in “Anonymous international” estimates also mentioned a neighbor with a “Mont Blanc” building “Petrovsky Fort” (Finlyandsky prospect 4). They are sometimes perceived as a unified whole.
Finally, the drain includes a bills of the company “material Evidence”, based on which, the company could be used to Finance the eponymous series of exhibitions of photographs and “evidence” of civil conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq (under the same jingoistic sauce).
Co-founder and CEO of “material Evidence” at the time was the same Catherine Petaia.
To lie in wait around the corner
29-year-old Petaev not like the leader of the “red guards”.
In the social network “Vkontakte” it publishes pictures from Internet conferences and fashion “bows” and judging by the answers to correspondent Bi-bi-si, genuinely not connected with the “Wineblogger” and “who’s Who” of beatings of activists.
She reluctantly tells about his work in kolopakingii projects. So, Catherine denied that her middle name is Alexandrovna, and when the correspondent Bi-bi-si took off her the link to the post in social networks, where she calls your full name, the post was immediately deleted (but preserved in the cache of search engines and the Internet Archive”).
Catherine Petaia: the Work was project for one month, adding content to the information blocks of the website. After that, the fate of this site is not monitored. The website at the time was informational and had to turn to the directory of bloggers. That’s all I know.
Bi-bi-si: What month is meant, what year?
E. P.: 2013, like. Month I do not remember. Autumn, maybe. Then the site just launched, and to me he was completely empty.
[Copies of correspondence, which is a bi-Bi-si, it follows that Peteva was one of the coordinators of Wineblogger” for at least half of 2014.]
Bi-bi-si And with whom you communicated, to whom reported? Maybe preserved some emails?
E. P.: the Communication took place via e-mail. Sorry, don’t remember which one. I have no mailbox at that time.
[According to the post, which has published Peteva in 2016, it still uses your old email address, which coincides with the fact that demonstrated the source Bi-bi-si.]
Bi-bi-si: what is OOO “material Evidence”?
E. P.: With this project I wasn’t working.
Bi-bi-si: You its co-founder and former CEO, according to the commercial registry. Your middle name after A.?
E. P.: No, never anything not made out.
Bi-bi-si: What is your middle name?
E. P.: Direct interrogation of some kind. No, more.
Bi-bi-si: will you please Specify what.
E. P.: to Do this I will not, because it’s bad enough that you somehow found me on the project, which three years ago were doing and asking all these is not clear what the leading questions.
Bi-bi-si: And here [link to post] you write that Aleksandrovna.
E. P.: Let’s finish this. I can write anything anywhere and it’s not necessarily truthful information about my personality.
Bi-bi-si: Unable to finish it. Only I ask you to consider sincerely to talk about these projects, because the article I’ll make in any case.
E. P.: are you threatening me that my name will not appear in these articles? I understand you correctly?
[Correspondent refers to the Russian law “On mass media”, explains the basic principles of journalistic ethics.]
Bi-bi-si: If you think it may harm you or your family – say so.
E. P.: nobody threatens Me, I don’t want to participate in that, about what I didn’t know. At that time, when I was filling the site, the concept was this – a directory of bloggers. Other information for you I have.
Bi-bi-si: You can’t recover the email and find the emails from senior management?
E. P.: the Phone I lost and wasn’t renewed. So no.
Bi-bi-si: the Office interview?
E. P.: see above.it’s freelance.
Bi-bi-si: through a website for freelancers, I found a job?
E. P.: In “Vkontakte”, a kind of group. Ahead of you, the correspondence was carried out from page that I have deleted.
Bi-bi-si: the Office at least was. Why do you say that was not? You work for the same people?
E. P.: I’m your persistence. I can contact the appropriate authorities with a statement about the persecution. You’re trying to sew something incomprehensible, to which I have nothing, and to make me extreme. All I know is, I said. If, after your article, I will be your victims lie in wait around the corner, so we’ll see you in court. Hope that you will value and that we would never meet.
[Correspondent again explains the main principles that he follows.]
E. P.: Name of the guide I don’t know. I spoke with some Irina, who I sent all the info in the mail. This is all the information I know. Couldn’t be more help. And let’s leave it there.
The “bell”
At the moment, “who is Who?” doesn’t work – the site administrator has disabled the engine, although the whole content including photographs of potential victims available via direct links.
Victims seek from the police criminal cases. Some believe that the safety they can provide only moving abroad.
“If you don’t feel safe even in the area where you live doing nothing illegal… If you have the point of view of sounding, it is a great bell,” – says the last beaten Egor Alekseev.
It seems that such a reaction from society and seek the creators of the site.
