User:Kirill Chashchin

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

I was born in Moscow, Russia in 1969. Graduated the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1992.

I has been working for Newsbytes News Network as a Moscow Bureau Chief around 1991-1994, was one of the founders of Moscow-based National News Service and National Electronic Library (largest full text russian press database to date, currently owned by Integrum Ltd), has been a publisher of "The Big Breach" - the memoir of dissident British spy Richard Tomlinson (1999-2000), has been an active participant in the political technologies and "electoral technologies" game in Russia around 1998-2001, worked as an assistant to the very knowledgeable former Russian Nuclear Deputy minister (2002-2005).

I am currently a deputy director of the Moscow-based Institute of Civic Society and Private Property Problems, which is a 10-years-old umbrella body, established by Simon Kordonsky, well-known sociologist and a Russian presidential speech writer in 2000-2006.

My intertwinned professional and personal interests include - historical and genealogical research and archive assistance in Russia, Ukraine and generally in the former Soviet Union; - data mining and database research, including large databases crossreferencing, large dataset visualisatoin, using personally indentifying data bases and press fact extraction for finding and distilling existing and new social networks and other funny data manipulations; - research and information brokerage services - current hobby includes locating the old musical manuscripts; - plain old espionnage, mostly from the historical viewpoint; - all aspects of communications - from being an ham radio operator 15 years ago to interest in the public GSM cracks now with everything in-between; - engineering projects - tesla coils, open source aerial video platform; - hacktivism - has been writing for 2600 some years ago, but still keep the eye on people and movement; - cryptography with its civic society as well as financial industry applications; - information policy; - energy policy.