MOSCOW Director of the Safe Internet League NGO Ekaterina Mizulina presented the threats and dangers that stalk minors online at the press conference in September.
Mizulina warned that minors are being lured to commit acts of sabotage on the internet. According to him, the culprits are in Ukraine.
– We consider that to be the number one problem at the moment, Mizulina said.
An organization close to the Russian authorities educates children and their parents about the dangers of the Internet, such as child pornography, scammers, and the idealization of drugs and gambling.
Liiga collects reports from the public about dangerous content on its hotline and forwards them to the authorities.
The work has made 40-year-old Jekaterina Mizulina a celebrity. He has built his image by reporting to the authorities against well-known popular culture influencers.
The organization has also been targeted by various oppositional and anti-war expressions of opinion. Thus, in the opposition media, Mizulina has been characterized as the kingdom’s “official whistleblower” and in the Western media as the “queen of censorship”.
Mizulina counts spreading false information and slandering the armed forces as extremism on the internet. On the other hand, the attraction to secret work that worries Mizulina is apparently not a completely invented problem.
The Russian authorities have arrested minors on suspicion of sabotage against, for example, the railway network and recruitment boards, tells Brussels-headquartered think tank CEPA.
Power circles grew
Ekaterina Mizulina has been riding the crest of a wave when the Russian leadership has built an official ideology based on so-called traditional values.
His speeches gather halls full of students, and a kind of star cult has been built around him. This would not be possible without a strong support in the Russian power apparatus.
Yekaterin Mizulina’s mother Jelena Mizulina is a senator in the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council. He was involved in drafting the anti-gay propaganda law enacted in 2012, which weakened the status of gender minorities in Russia. Now my daughter is fighting the same battle on the internet.
The Safe Internet League, founded in 2011, is behind a nationalist and devoutly Orthodox billionaire. Konstantin Malofeev.
Konstantin Malofeyev and Yekaterina Mizulina are both on the ban lists of Western countries. Malofeyev runs, among other things, the ultra-nationalist Tsargrad media. The United States and the European Union are accused financed by Malofeev separatism In eastern Ukraine, when Russia was still waging a covert war.
Rap artists and bloggers in a tight spot
In March 2021, Mizulina’s organization reported the rap artist to the prosecutor’s office Ališer from Morgenštern. According to the league, the artist advertised drugs to children. Morgenštern finally left the country.
In October 2022, Mizulina insisted that the rapper Oxxxymiron’s or Miron Fyodorov the song Oida would be declared extremist.
According to Mizulina, the song encouraged separatism, where St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region would try to break away from Russia. Oxxxymiron sang in the songthat Ingerinmaa will be free. Fyodorov was fined for calling for separatism and left Russia.
The pop artists who have been the target of Mizulina’s reports have usually apologized for their “bad” actions and promised to improve their ways.
There was an uproar over the Tiktok performer’s departure
Not all of Mizulina’s exploits have been without objections.
In September 2023, a popular Tiktok performer Danja Miloh returned to Russia and told about it on social media. Mizulina reacted to this by urging the Ministry of Defense to invite Milohin to military service in the autumn call-ups. After that, Milohin quickly flew to Dubai.
Leader of the New People party created on the liberal side of the political field, deputy speaker of the Duma Vladislav Davankov wrote on his Telegram channel that Mizulina frightened thousands of Russian IT experts, scientists and entrepreneurs with his actions, who otherwise could have returned to the country.
Davankov said the case shows the need for a law against whistleblowing.
Russian authorities are restricting the internet step by step
During their war of aggression in Ukraine, the Russian authorities have blocked access to the websites of numerous media outlets, including .
The authorities have also tried to make it more difficult for VPN services, which citizens have used to circumvent the blocks.
At the press conference in September, Mizulina was asked about the slowdown of the video service Youtube in Russia. Mizulina said that Youtube itself had caused the situation with its own actions.
– I feel that the platform deliberately provoked our state and citizens when it spread and raised interest in anti-Russian propaganda and blocked our great bloggers, patriots and media, Mizulina claimed.
On the other hand, Russia has not directly blocked YouTube’s operations. The authorities may be afraid that closing the popular entertainment service would only annoy the citizens.