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What to remove from VKontakte so that you are not imprisoned? Detailed instructions. Can they imprison for correspondence Can they imprison for a message in VK

Correspondence with a minor or a minor, can they put me in jail? The main question that interests everyone who types this phrase on the Internet. We answer! They can imprison, if a person has not reached the age of 14, then a term of 3 to 8 years in prison is threatened. And if intimate correspondence with a minor was conducted, but the minor was under 16 years old, then the court may appoint up to 3 years in prison.

Nowadays, communication between people takes place at great distances from each other through Internet resources, applications, social networks, etc. People make new acquaintances and do not know the whole truth about their interlocutors, for example, you think that you are communicating with an adult, but in fact, this is a 13-year-old teenager who pretends to be an adult (adult) person. Now, more and more often, the parents of such teenagers check the computer, phone and find correspondence and photographs of their children of a sexual nature, and accordingly turn to law enforcement agencies for help.

Attention! If you are accused of correspondence with minors, if the police detained and the person was arrested, call our criminal lawyers immediately. There is no need to think and wait for the police to sort out everything that they suddenly let go. This is a very serious article, especially in relation to persons under the age of 14, a person can cross out his whole life even with the most innocent correspondence.

Correspondence with a minor, what threatens?

Correspondence with an uneasy minor, and a teenager under the age of 14, threatens with real imprisonment for a very long time. Punishment for any attempt at intimate correspondence with a teenage girl or teenage boy who is not yet 14 years old is a very serious crime, so expect it to be just pampering and it won’t cost you anything. If a statement is written by the parents and they immediately came to your apartment for a search, in order to suddenly seize all computers and phones (the police always come for such crimes without warning), so that the person would not be able to secure himself and “clean up” everything, call and politely ask you to come, they definitely won’t be there, they’ll just come right away with an urgent search, they will seize everything with witnesses, and the suspect will go straight to the police department and will be held there and interrogated. Therefore, if such a situation occurs, a lawyer is immediately needed. Straightaway! No testimony without a hired lawyer.

What kind of punishment and whether there will be a punishment at all and whether law enforcement agencies will be able to prove at least something in relation to you or your loved one depends entirely on the hired lawyer. These are not easy things. There are many opportunities for refutation of the accusation and reclassification of actions. Without a lawyer, you don’t need to say anything at all, then there may be nothing but a couple of explanations to the operatives and there will be no termination of the case due to lack of evidence.

What influences punishment?

The main factor is, of course, the personality of the person who is accused of correspondence with minors. There is some evidence that this is a pedophile, for example, during a search in the apartment, materials were found that clearly indicate that a person is fond of minors on an ongoing basis. Watching porn videos with minors, magazines. This has a very bad effect on the punishment and the court will seek to give the maximum term, which is provided by law. And if this is an ordinary young man or not very young, who decided to chat a little with a teenage girl, and no materials were found on his phone or at home that compromised him as a pedophile, then here the court may not be so strict.

The nature of intimate correspondence also affects the punishment. Correspondence correspondence is different! It will be read and judged. You can have light correspondence with intimate hints (flirting), or you can have correspondence with various photographs of the genitals that a person sends or asks to be sent to him. Everything is individual! The personality of the minor also affects the punishment, which is the injured party. Many, many factors. And in the case when minors accuse a lot of harassment or correspondence, they do it for various reasons: selfish motives, personal resentment, hatred, a desire to avenge something. A lot of everything. The generation of the Internet is very advanced!

Correspondence with a minor in VK

Let's analyze one of the situations that, unfortunately, we (criminal lawyers) have to deal with more and more often. A case from life: a young man of 20 years old communicated with a girl on the Internet, all correspondence took place in VK (VKontakte) and was sure that she was 18 years old (so she told him), he asked to take a picture of his legs and send it to him, the girl did it, she asked to send his photo, in response, he also sent his photos naked to the waist (selfie with a naked torso in the mirror). The young man asked to send a photo of the girl's breasts, to which she refused. The correspondence ended, several months passed and the mother found this correspondence with her daughter on the phone and filed a complaint with the police, as the girl turned out to be 12 years old, for information, the young man and the girl live in different cities, at a distance of 900 kilometers from each other . As a result: a young man was detained and was in custody for a long time (the man spent about 9 months in a pre-trial detention center while the criminal case was being investigated) until our lawyers managed to free him.

In all cases that relate to minors and juveniles, criminal cases are always investigated for a long time. there is a lot of expertise to be done. Each examination is prepared for about 1-2 months, which is why the investigation can last up to a year, or even more, and all this time a person sits in a pre-trial detention center. But the main result, the guy is free. The court still considered it possible to give a suspended sentence. It was not easy to try to get the kid on probation. Let's hope he doesn't do this again.

Understand! Any correspondence with a minor on VK that contains at least some intimate conversations, photos, videos, pornography and the like can lead to serious consequences, so think a million times when you correspond with a minor on VKontakte, and even more so if it’s not just a minor , and a boy or girl who has not reached the age of 14, then this can provide you with a long term in prison for a long time.

Here, law enforcement agencies have a complete evidence base, they have the correspondence itself, full access to the VK account of a minor or minor, law enforcement agencies have testimony from a minor or minor victim, if correspondence with a minor in VK was conducted through a computer, then it turns out the IP address, the provider that provided access to the Internet, it turns out the address of the computer on which the correspondence was carried out and then finally find out who had access to this computer, if several people had access to the computer, then everyone is interrogated.

Correspondence via "Viber" or "Whats App" with a minor or minor

And if the correspondence with the minor was not conducted on Vkontakte, but via Viber or Whats App by phone, then it’s even easier here, you just need to find out your mobile operator who provided access to the Internet and the SIM card with the person’s data will be immediately at the law enforcement agencies and that's all, this is quite enough for arrest and further detention if there was an intimate correspondence with a minor.

And if the SIM card is not registered in your name or you bought a SIM card without a passport for a complete stranger?

This will only slightly complicate the work of law enforcement agencies, they will have to make billing and detailing of SIM card calls. All movements of the phone with this SIM card, even when it is turned off, are visible, all movements of the phone are found out, the IMAI data of the phone is found out, who has access to this phone, the location of this phone, the main addresses where the person happens to be. All these actions are done very quickly, because. mobile operators within two weeks usually provide all the data about the phone and its movements and calls for almost any period of time.

And if the correspondence was deleted?

If the correspondence with a minor has been deleted, both on your phone and on the minor’s phone, delete messages from both the sender and the one to whom the messages were sent through the “Viber” or “Whats App” function. Yes, this will significantly complicate proving guilt, but if a minor or a minor indicates in her testimony that they corresponded with her about things of a sexual nature, showed her genitals on video or asked to send her private parts of the body, then even without the absence of saved correspondence, 50% of what you will remain in custody. The worst thing is that the person with whom the correspondence is being conducted has reached the age of 14, because all correspondence with a minor in VK and other applications with a minor (a person under the age of 14) entails severe prosecution and punishment. Correspondence with minors does not entail such serious consequences!

Under what article does correspondence with minors fall under?

This is considered indecent acts and falls under Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. indecent acts

1. Commitment of depraved acts without the use of violence by a person who has reached the age of eighteen, in relation to a person who has not reached the age of sixteen, -

shall be punishable by compulsory works for a term of up to 440 hours, or by restraint of liberty for a term of up to three years, or by compulsory labor for a term of up to five years, with or without deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for up to three years with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to ten years.
2. The same act, committed in respect of a person who has reached the age of twelve, but has not reached the age of fourteen, -
shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of three to eight years, with or without deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to fifteen years, and with or without restraint of liberty for a term up to two years.
3. The deeds provided for by paragraphs one or two of this article, committed in respect of two or more persons, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to twelve years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to twenty years.
4. The deeds provided for by the first, second or third parts of this article, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group, -
shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of seven to fifteen years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to twenty years, and with or without restraint of liberty for a term of up to two years.
5. The act provided for by part two of this article, committed by a person who has a criminal record for a previously committed crime against the sexual inviolability of a minor, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of ten to fifteen years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to twenty years.

Danger 1. Demotivators

In September 2015, civil activist Dmitry Semyonov from Chuvashia was convicted for reposting a demotivator with a caricature of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the social network VKontakte. The user himself denied any accusations, indicating that he "liked" the text of the interview, and the caricature was "tied up" automatically.

The court ruled that Semyonov had publicly called for extremist activities and imposed a fine of 150,000 rubles. However, he immediately granted amnesty to the defendant, which did not satisfy the activist: in April 2016, he applied to the ECtHR. Semyonov believes that his right to a fair trial and freedom of expression were violated.

What is the danger: according to the court order, the demotivator had the inscription: "Death to the Russian reptile," which they saw as "a call for the physical destruction of Russians."

Danger 2. Photos from World War II

A resonant case involving prosecution for a picture with a swastika happened to Polina Petruseva, a journalist from the Smolensk portal readovka.ru. In January 2015, the girl posted on the page on the social network "VKontakte" a photo of her house during the Nazi occupation. In particular, law enforcement officers were not satisfied with the image of the flag of the Third Reich, which was visible in the documentary. Ultimately, Petruseva was fined a thousand rubles for propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols.

What is the danger: a law banning propaganda or public demonstration of the symbols of organizations that collaborated with the Nazis or deny the results of the Nuremberg Tribunal was adopted in Russia in the fall of 2014. However, later Roskomnadzor clarified that images of the swastika without propaganda purposes are acceptable.

Danger 3. Videos

The latter about the accusation of extremism, which ended in a criminal term, became known only recently. Mukhtar Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity" and Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Public calls for terrorist activities." The defendant pleaded guilty and received two years in prison to be served in a colony-settlement.

According to investigators, Ramazanov posted on his VKontakte page in June 2014 a video aimed at inciting hatred or enmity and humiliating a person's dignity in relation to religion and belonging to any social group.

What is the danger: With recent events in Ukraine and tense relations between the two former socialist republics, increased heated and often violent discussions may be at risk.

Danger 4. Ukraine

In Yekaterinburg, a local court found a single mother guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and enmity. Ekaterina Vologzheninova was convicted under Article 282 of the Criminal Code for reposting several entries on VKontakte of the communities of the Ukrainian People's Self-Defense and the Right Sector (the organization is banned in Russia. - Approx. ed.). For the reposts, the woman received 20 hours of compulsory work. In addition, Vologzheninova's laptop, computer mouse and charger were confiscated and destroyed.

What is the danger:some reposted publications belonged to publics that belonged to organizations banned in Russia, such as UNA-UNSO and "Right Sector".

Danger 5. Insulting the feelings of believers

No luck and 21-year-old resident of Berdsk, Novosibirsk region. Maxim Kormelitsky received a year and three months in a colony-settlement for a repost and a sharp statement about the Orthodox. In January 2016, Kormelitsky, through a repost from the Dvach community on VKontakte, posted on his page a photo of Orthodox bathing in an ice hole with a comment where, in his own words, he assessed "the mental state of people who sacrifice their health for the sake of religion."

The recording was seen by Orthodox activist Yuri Zadoya, who complained to the Investigative Committee about the offensive comment. Kormelitsky was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, which establishes liability for inciting hatred on religious grounds.

What is the danger: Religion has always been a hot topic, so statements on this topic are best expressed in a more neutral way.

Danger 6. Lack of Internet Literacy

In March 2016, a 62-year-old pensioner also suffered from careless reposts. Nikolai Yegorov, who works as a security guard at an asphalt plant in Chuvashia, was accused of extremism for reposting Boris Stomakhin's material on VKontakte, whose post was previously recognized as extremist in content.

Egorov's lawyer said that his ward "did not post any publications on his page, and an unlimited number of people have access to his account due to his little knowledge of the specifics of the Internet."

What is the danger: be careful about the security of your social media accounts and do not allow others to publish something on their behalf. Even for a joke.

Repost is not an "article"?

IN legislation still does not have a definition of such a thing as a repost, says lawyer of the public movement "Roskomsvoboda" Sarkis Darbinyan. Therefore, any case of the so-called "sharing" of materials on the social network can be qualified as a statement by the account owner himself or approval of the copied entry.

According to the head of the Zhorin and Partners Bar Association, Sergei Zhorin, it is illegal to prosecute citizens for their reposts. "But we live in a reality where this is already happening. Therefore, you need to understand that when someone makes some kind of repost, he may be liable. Users need to be careful with the information they post. It does not matter if this information is unique or repost," he commented to Life.

At the same time, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications considered thatlikes or shares are not an expression of opinion.

"We are big opponents of the idea of introducing responsibility for hyperlinks, because we know perfectly well that ... You don't know what is hidden under a hyperlink at all. And today there may be one thing, and tomorrow there may be another. By the way, the same thing with reposts. You repost a certain line, the content of which may change.(...) Therefore, the position of our ministry is very simple: we believe that this is too broad an interpretation of the law, and we are opposed to the idea of introducing liability for hyperlinks," the deputy minister told Ekho Moskvy communications and mass communications Alexey Volin.

A fine line

Experts agree that no one is immune from being held accountable for statements made on social networks.

Punishment can overtake even for "podzamochnye" posts. “Some of your friends can take screenshots and “snitch” to the relevant authorities, after which a case will be initiated on the dissemination of illegal information via the Internet,” Sargis Drabinyan explains. “From the point of view of the law, there is no difference. does not affect in any way. And there have already been similar proceedings."

According to him, in recent years, most of the litigation concerned calls for extremism. According to Darbinyan, this is due to the authorities' concern about the manifestation of extremism on the Web. “Thus, self-censorship is introduced at the level of the account holders and group owners themselves, so that they themselves track and delete some information that can be perceived as illegal,” he said.

Zhorin also argues about the importance of the separation between expressing one’s opinion and illegal content: “The court must figure out where the opinion is and where the statement is. Opinion cannot be punished. It is important that the courts that consider such cases conduct them carefully and from the point of view of the law. It's a very fine line: where is opinion and where is extremism."

According to the expert,extremism, calls for violence, suicide and other things must be fought, but prosecution, and even more so criminal, for statements on the Internet today should be an exceptional measure. "Where toit is more expedient to use other tools, for example, blocking, removal of illegal content by the online platform itself," he says.

How to minimize risk

There are marker words that can "nudge" the relevant authorities to take a closer look at your page. Elena Kara-Murza, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language Stylistics at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and a member of the Guild of Linguistic Experts in Documentation and Information Disputes, told Life about them:

For verbal extremism (in its two varieties, relatively speaking, political and ethno-extremism), the range of markers is large and varied. For example, these are the so-called ethnopholisms (i.e. obviously negative designations of peoples: " chocks", "Jews", "black") or other "hate words" (" commies", "liberals", "fascizoids"), as well as words for people who commit illegal or unethical acts ( killer, bandit, prostitute, confused). For example, these are words of political, ethno-political and religious topics (" power", "revolution", "insurrection", "murder", "orthodoxy", "Islam"...).

According to the expert, a text or statement can be considered extremist if it clearly expresses the idea of violent, aggressive actions against state and social institutions or against specific people. In the case of offending the feelings of believers, the consistent opposition of one religion to another and the requirement to "convert" non-believers and non-believers or destroy them.

"Or, for example, it is a scolding against people on the grounds of their nation, language, religion, sexual orientation, accusing them of all sins on the same grounds, justifying violence against them. This is real verbal extremism, which must and can be fought," - considers Elena Kara-Murza.

As for the use of evaluative words that fix the expression of an opinion, for example, "I believe", "in my opinion", the expert notes that this cannot save from a trial.

"It is believed that an opinion cannot be verified, that it does not display the world around us, but a picture of this world in the author's head. This applies to court cases on defamation (dissemination of defamatory information and humiliation of honor, dignity and business reputation - approx. ed.), even these turnovers do not save the defendants, especially if the plaintiffs have administrative resources," she explained.

For cases of verbal extremism, the constructions of opinion do not play a role, they "do not exempt from responsibility," the linguist noted. The same applies to cases concerning the protection of the rights of believers.

In Russia, cases are increasingly being brought against users of social networks, mainly VKontakte. Unfortunately, the reality is that a criminal case can be brought against someone who has no criminal intentions and just kept a picture that he liked, made a repost of a record that he approves (or vice versa - outraged by it), or left a comment, who offended someone. Soon, VKontakte will allow you to hide your profile from everyone except friends, but until this happens, go to your page and check if there is anything on it that can lead to imprisonment for several years.

The website of the Ministry of Justice published a list of extremist materials, which includes photographs, videos, lyrics, books, brochures, leaflets, poems, articles from newspapers and magazines, and other types of content. It is important to understand that this list is not exhaustive and is being updated. You can’t post on your page and add to yourself anything that it contains, but any material outside this list can get into it by court order. Usually materials that contain direct or indirect incitement to violence, incite hatred or discriminate against people on any grounds are generally recognized as extremist.

Remove from your page any content with a negative attitude or ridicule towards religion, its ministers and believers, the Russian military and any categories of persons (foreigners, young mothers, children, veterans, gays, homophobes, officials, blacks, Asians, Caucasians , Russians, Jews, dwarfs, disabled people, etc.)

You should get rid of pictures, songs, videos and text records with the approval of terrorism, Nazism, fascism and violence against the categories of persons listed above.

Do not leave content with a statement on the crimes of the Russian military in modern wars and armed conflicts of the past, cooperation between the USSR and the Third Reich, attacks on Finland, occupation of neighboring states, violence against civilians and other historical facts that are not recognized by the Russian authorities.

Photographs and videos that depict a swastika (even if they are frames from documentaries or feature films that are not prohibited from being shown), as well as symbols revered in Russia (like the red star, the St. George ribbon, the Christian cross) that are not used according to appointment. This also includes images of desecrated monuments, shrines and graves.

Particular attention should be paid to content with insults, profanity and threats - it must be removed. Do not leave any information about drugs and methods of suicide, instructions for making weapons and explosives.

Your videos should not contain videos with insults, threats, humiliating statements and rude obscenities. Be sure to remove pornography and overly explicit erotica. There is a lot of such content on VK, and it is not forbidden to view it, but if you keep it on your own, you may be prosecuted for distributing pornography - there is such an article in the Criminal Code.

Go through your list of conversations and remember with whom you discussed something “forbidden”: politics, religion, history, drugs, sex, violence. Delete those parts of the conversations in which you wrote the most frank thoughts. Ask your interlocutors to do the same (not the fact that they will agree, but still).

Log out of all groups that distribute the content mentioned above. Remove from friends and ban those who post something like this (especially if they share it with you via private messages). Log out of all chats where something like this is being discussed. Clear your bookmarks from groups and people who can be suspected of extremism.

VKontakte does not allow you to immediately delete all content posted by the user and erase everything that would remind you of his presence on the social network. After deleting your account, only what you store on your page will disappear, and then only partially. You will still be able to find your uploaded videos, audio recordings, and publicly available documents through the search. In addition, your photos and correspondence will be stored on the VKontakte servers. The comments you left will not disappear anywhere, only the link to you will lead to an empty profile.

It is impossible to completely delete all your traces in VK, especially if you actively used the social network. However, there are scripts and browser extensions that allow you to get rid of certain content with a few clicks.

ViKey Zen allows you to quickly clear the wall of all entries, as well as delete all dialogs, including sent files.

You can bulk delete only photos added to albums you have created. To quickly get rid of pictures in the "Saved photos" and "Photos on my wall" sections, you need to go into edit mode, click "Select all photos", and then "Delete".

To delete audio recordings, open the "Music" section in the browser, scroll the list of tracks to the very end, right-click, select "View Code" and paste the following script into the Console section:

javascript:(function()(var a = document.getElementsByClassName("audio"); i=0;inter=setInterval(function()(Audio.deleteAudio(a.childNodes.name);if(i>a.length) clearInterval(inter)),500); ))()

In the same way, you can delete all videos, just use this script:

(function () ("use strict"; if (!confirm("Delete all Videos?")) return; var deletePostLink = document.body.querySelectorAll("div.video_thumb_action_delete"); for (var i = 0; i< deletePostLink.length; i++) { deletePostLink[i].click(); }alert(deletePostLink.length + " posts deleted"); }());

The Internet was stirred up by stories about courts for pictures in social networks. 23-year-old resident of Barnaul Maria Motuznaya faces up to five years in prison for keeping memes about religion and African Americans. Even before the verdict, the girl was added to the list of extremists. We spoke with Damir Gainutdinov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, about what kind of materials could serve as a pretext for initiating a criminal case.

For memes in Russia began to judge just now?

No, before the case of Maria Motuznaya from Barnaul, there were many similar incidents in Russia. We at Agora have been monitoring the freedom of the Internet since 2011, and every year the number of criminal cases for online activity increases, first of all, people are charged with extremism. Now there are several hundred defendants annually - most of them reposted or posted controversial materials on the page. There are completely absurd stories when judged for funny pictures, there are also those that are associated with truly radical content, however, its distribution did not always pose any danger.

I read an article that in the previous tweet, it became so terrible in my soul that I decided on a small coming out. Fortunately, I was not tortured (pah pah), but hello everyone, my name is Masha, I'm 23 years old and I'm an extremist 🤗
A thread about the rule of law and a rubber article.
— Frolová (@La72La) July 23, 2018

How are the accused selected?

From the outside, it seems that the victims are chosen simply on a geographical basis: an operative is sitting somewhere in Barnaul and googles users from his region. The point is not to prevent crime, but to improve the statistical indicators of detection.

What pictures can be planted?

The logic of experts and investigators is unpredictable, but we can outline a range of dangerous topics: criticism of the authorities, the Russian Orthodox Church or objects and people associated with it, this is everything related to LGBT people, except for inciting hatred - their state only encourages. A positive attitude towards homosexuality, on the other hand, can be assessed as propaganda.

Also, the risk zone is not a generally accepted interpretation of history. First of all, this concerns the Second World War, cooperation between the Soviet and Nazi regimes, the crimes of the Red Army, the partition of Poland, and violence against civilians in Eastern Europe. All this can theoretically become a crime under Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. One can recall, for example, the case of Vladimir Luzgin, who received a fine for reposting an article alleging that the USSR allegedly divided Poland with Hitler.

Publications about corruption should also be avoided; in the last couple of years, the seemingly obsolete practice of persecution for the so-called incitement of hostility towards government officials and employees of bodies has resumed.

Picture number 2: five smoking girls dressed as nuns and the inscription: "Come on faster, until God is gone." Below is a user comment: “You can take your time”
July 29, 2018

Where should the pictures be in order to be judged for them?

From the point of view of legislation, there is no difference where the picture is located: in a message, an album or on a wall. The theoretical possibility of access to the material by at least one person can already be considered distribution. I am aware of a criminal case for posting in a closed group, in which there were either three or four members.

Will deleting or closing the album help?

If the case is going to be started solely for statistics, then this will also help. Another question, ifwant to attract a specific person, for example, an activist.The problem is that the procedure for cooperation between the administration of Russian services and the authorities is absolutely non-transparent. We don't know how it all happens, and we assume the worst: any information is provided upon request. According to Yarovaya law, correspondence must be stored for six months, and IP addresses for a year. It is known that photographic materials from the social network are never deleted and are stored on servers "to avoid disk fragmentation."Accordingly, if you need to find something for a specific person, then closing albums and groups will not save.

Image #8: A Twitter screenshot of a still from a video where Alexei Navalny was compared to Adolf Hitler.
— Text memes for which you will sit down (@text_ments) July 29, 2018

Can representatives of a social network refuse to provide information?

From the point of view of the law, social network administrators can refuse to provide information, since it is protected by secret correspondence, this follows from the very essence of the Constitution. But in order to respond to the authorities in this way, one must be prepared for confrontation and consequences. And representatives of the authorities have all the necessary levers of pressure on business, the example of Pavel Durov shows that it is possible to completely easily take business away from a person. So in modern Russian realities, this is an offer that cannot be refused.

What threatens?

The number of real terms in such cases is increasing from year to year. Over the past three years, more than a hundred people have been imprisoned: they received from several months to five years. It is no coincidence that in recent years the punishments have become tougher: initially, these articles belonged to the category of minor severity, the terms were up to three years. Then they increased, now this is a crime of moderate gravity, because of this, the statute of limitations has also increased - now it is six years instead of two. So if you posted something six years ago, you could be held accountable now.

How to protect yourself?

It is too late to leave VKontakte, but if you think that you have something to fear, then do it. It must be understood that legal methods of protection from the authorities in this case do not work. A guarantee is end-to-end encryption, when even the service does not have access to the materials, or the refusal of the service to cooperate with government agencies. So far, one can be more or less sure of this only in relation to foreign social networks, that is, those that the Russian authorities cannot physically reach out to. At the same time, you need to remember that you still remain at risk, since the information will continue to be stored on the server. However, if you are nevertheless attracted, the fact of removal may indicate repentance and serve as a reason for mitigating the punishment.

Image #15: Jesus smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke through a hole in his palm
— Text memes for which you will sit down (@text_ments)

That's right, let them call a summons. Perhaps they are trying to extort you.

In this case, you can contact the police yourself.

It is not a fact that the person who called you is really an investigator. But who called said to drive to the 62nd police department

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Does the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia have the ability to track personal correspondence on VKontakte?

The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not like this and they wanted to “privatize” some of these server capacities, having previously combined them into a common dynamic space. But a motivated refusal was waiting for them from the owners - this is technically impossible.

Buy your servers, and we will provide you with one-way high-speed access and arrange "caches" of any size for yourself and do what you want with them!

But these are huge sums of money, they are not in the state treasury, and forcing the oligarchs to “shake up their money” is a hopeless undertaking.

Blackmail and extortion VKontakte

That is, if a swindler just wrote that he wants to send information compromising you to his friends, but has not yet done so, this is already considered extortion. The popular social network is one of the favorite places for a variety of blackmail scammers.

Today we will look at three of the most popular ways to ruin the life of an ordinary person: Criminal liability for Internet extortion Blackmail with pictures, videos and correspondence of an intimate nature is a criminal offense.

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According to her, not only a case was brought against the well-known blogger Anton Nosik, who called for “wiping Syria off the face of the Earth,” but ordinary people are also tried, like a single mother, Ekaterina Vologzheninova, who posted poems and pictures on VKontakte in support of the revolution in Ukraine. After the adoption of the bill, Yarovaya will be imprisoned for extremism for eight years instead of four and deprived of the right to engage in professional activities for ten (which professions the restriction will apply to is not specified).

In Article 148, a new chapter "Promotion of extremism" appeared.

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(Kamchatsky Krai, Vilyuchinsk) I had a similar story a couple of years ago, although then the girl said that she was 20 years old and posted someone else's photo.

When I found out that she was 15, I immediately shamed her and stopped communicating. It seems that everything is quiet and calm, no one came and took it away with handcuffs! :-) October 15, 2015, Thursday, 18:51 Fadeev Maxim (Republic of Chuvashia, Cheboksary) Urgent questions March 19, 2019, Saturday, 00:23

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