Prepare to be watched - for your own good...

Another news item from Echo of Moscow:

28.04.2005. The Federal Security Service (FSB) proposed today to expand the authority of the Russian security servcices to monitor the internet. FSB representative Dmitriy Frolov, speaking at a roundtable discussion devoted to legislative questions in the area of telecommunications, stated that the FSB proposes to implement new requirements for internet service providers in order to prevent the dissemination of extremist ideas on the internet, and also to have the potential to receive information about the addresses of all internet users.

Update: more on this story at Mosnews.com - "Russia's FSB Demands Control over Internet."