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That would kinda seem to be the point of it.

From three seconds of googling.

Wikileaks releases documents it claims detail Russia mass surveillance apparatus https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/wikileaks-releases-documen...

And this link clearly says:

> It’s the _first_ time the organization has leaked (what it claims is) material directly pertaining to the Russian state.

So... first time for how many years? And as, article points out, the leak itself is rather minor.

That may simply be a function of how little leaks out of Russia. Reasonably closed states that tend to murder their opposition have a bit of an advantage here. If Snowden or Manning had been Russian I would totally expect them to be killed to serve as an example to other potential leakers.

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