Russia’s surveillance state still doesn’t match China. But Putin is racing to catch up.

4/19/21
 
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from The Washington Post,
4/17/21:

Russian authorities are ramping up the use of facial recognition technology to track opposition protesters to their homes and arrest them — a powerful new Kremlin tool to crush opposition.

But when state security agents are suspected of murders or attacks on journalists and opposition activists, surveillance cameras have at times been switched off or “malfunction.”

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