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The '''Dark Side of the Kremlin''' is the name given to a large leak of Russian documents.<ref>https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=54200</ref>
 
The '''Dark Side of the Kremlin''' is the name given to a large leak of Russian documents.<ref>https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=54200</ref>
 
They were posted to the [[Internet Archive]], but were quickly taken down for having breached guidelines.<ref>https://archive.org/details/DarkSideOfTheKremlin</ref>
 
They were posted to the [[Internet Archive]], but were quickly taken down for having breached guidelines.<ref>https://archive.org/details/DarkSideOfTheKremlin</ref>
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==The Documents==
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"175 gigabytes of compressed data consisting of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails, other messages and files from Russian [[politicians]], [[journalists]], [[oligarchs]], [[priests|religious]] and social figures, as well as nationalists/separatists/[[terrorists]] operating in [[Ukraine]]." The files were originally [https://ddosecretspzwfy7.onion.to/data/asia/#russia posted here] (available using the [[magnet]] or [[torrent]] protocols).
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'''The files were available at https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbHFPMqykf4ArUrSdMTUAimqqKkPqajdaRDdpdVDTuk78 ''' as of October 2019.
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===Search interface===
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The webpage at https://search.bivol.bg/kremlin/ appears to be a searchable interface to the documents.
  
 
==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
The group which posted the documents, [[DDoSecrets]], stated that the documents included “hundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists/terrorists in Ukraine”. [[Emma Best]], a co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets is quoted as saying that the Russian documents and emails “show how the Russian power system is interconnected, and documents influence operations in real time—from those separatists/[[terrorists]] backed by Russia to those in the Orthodox and business worlds.”<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/28/hackers-turn-the-tables-on-russia-hacking-leaking-cyber-documents-wikileaks/</ref>
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[[Emma Best]], a co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets is quoted as saying that the Russian documents and emails “show how the Russian power system is interconnected, and documents influence operations in real time—from those separatists/[[terrorists]] backed by Russia to those in the Orthodox and business worlds.”<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/28/hackers-turn-the-tables-on-russia-hacking-leaking-cyber-documents-wikileaks/</ref>
  
 
==Reporting==
 
==Reporting==
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==Timing==
 
==Timing==
 
The leak occurred about 10 weeks after the documents from the [[Integrity Initiative]] were leaked.
 
The leak occurred about 10 weeks after the documents from the [[Integrity Initiative]] were leaked.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 08:01, 15 October 2019

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Date25 January 2019
ParticipantsDDoSecrets
Websitehttps://ddosecretspzwfy7.onion.to/data/asia/#russia
DescriptionA leak of 175GB of Russian documents

The Dark Side of the Kremlin is the name given to a large leak of Russian documents.[1] They were posted to the Internet Archive, but were quickly taken down for having breached guidelines.[2]

The Documents

"175 gigabytes of compressed data consisting of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails, other messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious and social figures, as well as nationalists/separatists/terrorists operating in Ukraine." The files were originally posted here (available using the magnet or torrent protocols).

The files were available at https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbHFPMqykf4ArUrSdMTUAimqqKkPqajdaRDdpdVDTuk78 as of October 2019.

Search interface

The webpage at https://search.bivol.bg/kremlin/ appears to be a searchable interface to the documents.

Official narrative

Emma Best, a co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets is quoted as saying that the Russian documents and emails “show how the Russian power system is interconnected, and documents influence operations in real time—from those separatists/terrorists backed by Russia to those in the Orthodox and business worlds.”[3]

Reporting

Scott Shane reported on the leak for the New York Times, opining that the size of the documents (around 175 GB uncompressed) is so large that suggested that they may have been copied over a LAN (i.e. a computer on the internal network) rather than over the Internet.[4]

Timing

The leak occurred about 10 weeks after the documents from the Integrity Initiative were leaked.

 

Known Participant

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Participant
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References