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"The Great Storys" Spoke to One of the PRS Developers, the System by Which the FSB Monitors the Russians, Who Left Russia and Removed the Internal Documents Archive.

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Journalists from The Great History spoke to a 24-year-old programmer, Ivan Kirsanov, who worked for a company from the Citadel holding company. This holding is the main developer of the PRSD, the surveillance system for the FSB. Kirsanov left Russia in 2025 and removed the technical documentation archive of the PRMS. The programmer now lives in France on a student residence permit, works as a shepherd on a farm and contests the denial of refugee…

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Journalists from The Great History spoke to a 24-year-old programmer, Ivan Kirsanov, who worked for a company from the Citadel holding company. This holding is the main developer of the PRSD, the surveillance system for the FSB. Kirsanov left Russia in 2025 and removed the technical documentation archive of the PRMS. The programmer now lives in France on a student residence permit, works as a shepherd on a farm and contests the denial of refugee…

·Riga, Latvia
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The journalists of Important History spoke to a 24-year-old programmer, Ivan Kirsanov, who was developing systems...

·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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One of the programme developers for the Russian PRAIS went abroad with the archive of documents and handed it over to the Great History Project, which is the special equipment and software attached to it, which captures, sorts and stores the traffic of all Russians, as well as listening to calls and reading texts.

The publication "The Great Story" spoke to the developer Ivan Kirsanov, who worked for a company from the Citadel holding company, the main manufacturer of the FSB surveillance system, which is called the PRMS.

·Russian Federation (the)
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Mediazona broke the news in Moscow, Russian Federation (the) on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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