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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.

During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.

This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.

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Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@randahl it seems doubtful they would register IMEIs for that purpose. When I purchased a SIM card in Russia back in 2010 I had to show my passport already and they had to copy everything from it. I know that was already common practice for years at that time.

So for anybody with a Russian SIM card, they already have the ability to look up the IMEI of the device in which a particular SIM is along with the passport of who purchased the SIM.