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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Evgeny Bespalov is a director general of Friendly Runet Foundation (a Safer Internet center in Russia, a member of INHOPE association) since 2008.
He has been engaged in scientific jobs in the academic world. Mr. Bespalov holds a Cand.Econ.Sci. degree. Also he has MBA degree. Evgeny Bespalov is a member of Organizing Committee for Safer Internet Year in Russia.
30 September, Wednesday, 14.30 - 16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: Cooperation of Law Enforcements and FRF hotline in combating online child sexual abuse materials in Russia Friendly Runet Foundation (FRF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization which is founded for conducting Internet safety projects in Russia. From the very start the cooperation with law enforcements has been a key issue. In Russia a Dept K of Interior Ministry is responsible for combating cybercrimes. Before launching the hotline a working group comprising internet industry and Dept K representatives was summoned. It has worked out the aims and purposes of the hotline. Also a first edition of hotline regulations was developed. After the FRF started its operations we have transformed the working group into a Foundation’s Coordinating board which consists of the industry’s, state agencies’ and law enforcements’ representatives. The aim of cooperation with law enforcements is a combating illegal content and stopping other illegal activities on the net via developing and sustaining industrial self-regulation mechanisms. The hotline does not duplicate the law enforcement efforts but establishes partnership networks and provides conditions for resolving the problems within the industry. All the interactions between Dept K and FRF are conducted in framework of special bilateral regulations. These interactions include: - Informing Dept K about potentially illegal content revealed from the reports - Supplying Dept K with a statistics and analytical information concerning a dynamics of illegal content in Russian segment of the internet (domains, characteristics of the content, content and hosting service providers, their actions, etc) - Joint research and investigations - Sharing experience and joint development of the hotline procedures and regulations - Joint information campaigns and participation in public events As a result, more than 4500 reports have been processed since January till the end of August 2009. About 2000 URLs or individual web-sites were confirmed by the hotline analysts to have child sexual abuse content. 1700 URLs or individual web-sites were closed down at the mediation of FRF hotline both in Russia and abroad. Also Dept K has filed several suits against certain suspects.
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In 2004-2007 he was an editor-in-chief of Russian awareness web-portal ‘Vash lichny Internet’.
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