Well, well, well. The following story is reminiscent of Soviet-style indiginous surveillance, and should bug anybody who has a memory of the Cold War, and likely disturb anyone who may ask if it could be perpetrated on them.
Bit by bit, festered member by festered member, the beast is being reborn:
Russian Intelligence Granted New Powers over Citizens
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35289&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=682b346e25
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 139
July 21, 2009 12:53 PM Age: 24 hrs
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Domestic/Social, Military/Security, Russia, Featured
By: Yuri Zarakhovich
On July 6, the Russian ministry of communications posted its Order 65, on its official website (www.minkomsvjaz.ru). Effective as of July 21, the order decrees that Russian postal services must make available for inspection on demand to the Federal Security Service (the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet KGB) and seven other Russian security service agencies any private mail or shipments, as well as its exhaustive data on senders and addressees. Special rooms where security officers will be able to open and inspect private mail were decreed to be established at post offices. Order 65 also cancels the privacy of electronic correspondence. Operators will now formally grant the security services access to their electronic databases...
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