Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by asveikau on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:54AM (#40199937)

Interesting seeing this website with a .ru domain. Haven't been following them, but seems like they're based in Latvia. I don't think they would live comfortably being physically in Russia, but also seems like the state could seize the domain.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by Klaster_1 on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:33PM (#40200591)

The Insider has been systematically repressed by the Putin's regime:

* "Foreign agent" label in 2021. This means massive restrictions on income sources and a target of gradually increasing restrictions as years go by.

* "Undesirable organization" in 2022. Donating to such organizations is a criminal offense.

* Roman Dobrokhotov - the Insider founder - has been wanted in Russia since 2021.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by acdha on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:36PM (#40200632)

How does that not translate into the .ru domain name being seized?

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by Klaster_1 on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:46PM (#40200762)

As far as I'm aware, no ".ru" domains have been seized yet from media independent from the Russian government. Instead, they prefer to block website access - by law, every ISP has to install DPI-enabled hardware, which is used to censor the net.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by geoka9 on Monday April 29, 2024 @04:24PM (#40203686)

I'm aware of one - grani.ru had to become graniru.org a few years ago.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by kgeist on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:22PM (#40201263)

I confirm that the the link doesn't open from Russia.

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by Glacia on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:48PM (#40200805)

Why seize a domain when you can just block it country wide?

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by dralley on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:01PM (#40200059)

They also have a mirrored .press domain

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by gotts on Monday April 29, 2024 @02:04PM (#40201800)

seizing the domain would give them nothing. Insider has a well established brand, they can easily reopen it in any other domain. Also getting some private information during the registration process might be helpful for the state.

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