133 183 288 | Putin Expands Power of Russia’s Federal Guards to 'Information Warfare', February 27, 2018

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President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree authorizing his secretive Federal Guard Service (FSO) to counter cyberattacks and protect the personal data of public servants.

Among the FSO’s ever-expanding list of tasks is protecting high ranking officials and key government interests in Russia. Last year, Putin signed into law a bill allowing the FSO to classify data on key state officials’ bank accounts and property.

 Maxim Topilin is the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Russian Federation since May of 2012.

From the Minster of Labour and Social Affairs, Maxim Topiln, birthday (4/19/17) to the date of this expansion of power granted to Russia's Federal guards (2/27/18) is a span of 10 weeks and 9 days, like 109.

The newly published decree signed by Putin on Tuesday charges the FSO with implementing “information warfare measures, detections, warnings and consequence management of computer attacks on Russian information resources.”

The decree, made public on the government’s legal portal, also tasks the federal guards with protecting the personal data of high-ranking officials and their family members.

The Federal Protective Service is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of several high-ranking state officials, mandated by the relevant law, including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties. It traces its origin to the USSR's Ninth Chief Directorate of the KGB and later Presidential Security Service (SBP) led by KGB general Alexander Korzhakov.

The 2018 Russian presidential election will take place on March 18, 2018, date written 3/18 or 18/3.