Gulag instead of Google: the case of Sergei Surovtsev
"One of the smartest people I know" ©
While one part of the country applauds Putin's new promises, and the other is busy frantically guessing why he is hastily rewriting the Constitution and how he will remain in power in the future, there are people in prison without whom our country may not have a normal future.
One of these people is Sergei Surovtsev, a graduate of MAI, a talented IT specialist. He, like other thoughtful and caring people, took to the streets against lawlessness and the usurpation of power. Sergei was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison under the "Moscow case" for raising a metal fence, trying to stop the violence of security forces at the rally on July 27.
Surovtsev worked on the Russian GLONASS satellite system, was involved in neural networks, and even managed to work in Silicon Valley, a place where the best minds on the planet flock, where the most high-tech companies are concentrated, and where, in essence, the technological future of the world is “forged.” But in Russia, the future is “forged” in other places and by other methods — with truncheons and criminal cases against thinking people. After all, thinking people are simply dangerous for Putin’s government.
PS: Sergei’s case, like other shameful political cases, really needs mass publicity. After all, this is the only thing that can influence anything in our time.