The FSB admitted in court that it conducts "screening tests" of foreigners' phones at the border.

The FSB admitted in court that it conducts "screening tests" of foreigners' phones at the border.

The FSB has admitted that it conducts "screening checks" on foreigners entering Russia. This will be evidenced by data from nine court decisions that discovered news beware. These are citizens of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan who were denied entry through the airports in Moscow.

All the defendants in these lawsuits were transferred to border checkpoints for questioning and mobile phone testing, following which a decision was made to enter Russia. The FSB examined the viewing history of foreigners on YouTube, which included "video recordings of preachers prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation", on the basis of which it claimed that they could be classified as "followers of the ideology of radical Islam".

In addition, the reason for preventing entry to Israel in one of the cases was "signs of hiding correspondence by deleting them" on WhatsApp and Telegram. In another, the stranger used a phone with the push of a button to communicate.