From Monday, July 21, all post offices in Russia are obliged to provide “special facilities” for members of the security services to inspect – and open – letters and parcels. The move, embodied in an internal memo from the Ministry of Communications, has caused an outcry in the Russian media and amongst human rights groups, who fear a return to Soviet-era invasions of privacy. But the real threat is not in the law itself, but in how it get implemented – or, more often, breached.
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