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BIG BROTHER OF MOSCOW
Posted on October 2, 2014 by tim

Picture 1
Big brother is watching you and for sure he does it in Moscow. 
Hundreds of people sitting in a large white building in the 
centre of Moscow gather information from over 130,000 (!) 
cameras installed in the city and are constantly tracking people 
and situations around. Wanna see a bit more? We have a bit 
more thanks to Dmitriy who visited their lair and took some 
photos with his tablet pc:
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So that is the building in question. Not every Muscovite 
knows what goes on here. However, since 1970 - yes that 
long ago, when the first ten analogue cameras were installed 
into the most popular Moscow intersections by communist police 
of that time, this building has been the surveillance centre. 
Years passed, and there were no more communists around, however 
the centre grew and got stronger. Now it is fully digital, 
of course.
3
They can put anything on those large screens. Cameras on the 
streets, in the offices or even from the dash cams of police 
cars can be streamed to here in real time.
4
That's what a typical Moscow big brother's work place looks 
like.
5
These are the guys that work there. They say they don't 
only get the images and streaming video from the cameras 
around the city, but they also track internet services that 
allow people to communicate with each other so that they 
can track dangerous situations in real time. It's all 
public so why can't they track them too?
6
Maps, maps everywhere. Real time traffic control, all of the 
accidents are marked on the maps. If there is an accident 
there is for sure some camera around so we can see it. If there 
is no camera, then as soon as a police car arrives we can get 
the picture and video streamed from the car. 
7
Also unpaid tickets are more information that can be tracked 
for any driver. So when a patrol car pulls somebody over, 
they can detain him for unpaid tickets, etc, until he pays. 
8
Some cameras track visitors, for example visitors to 
police stations, etc. Those people in the picture track 
all of the visitors. 
9
Here is an example of tracking people in some governmental office. 
10
And more roads, streets, intersections.
11
Some are birds-eye cameras installed on houses and buildings. 
Some are on the traffic lights, and more of them are installed 
in different places and different styles. Just imagine, over 
one hundred thirty thousand cams in the city to control. That's 
a lot of live video.
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A lot of monitors are needed to control all of those cams.

What do they call it? Officially, this place is called a 
"Situational Control Centre". So they control the situation 
and don't hide it. How successful is the project? Dmitriy didn't 
tell us.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_for_Road_Traffic_Safety_(Russia)

The GAI (Russian: ???; IPA: [g?'i]), short for State Automobile Inspectorate (Russian: ??????????????? ????????????? ?????????, tr. Gosudarstvennaya Avtomobilnaya Inspektsiya), was formed on July 3, 1936. The GAI was part of the NKVD and actively starts executing tasks: fighting accidents, developing technical standards of operation of vehicles, supervises the preparation and education of drivers. And also keep records of accidents, analyze their causes, accident attracts offenders to justice, manages the issuance of license plates, data sheets, search cars, hiding from the accident scene.
In 1961 it was merged with the Road Traffic Control Department.[1]
After the dissolution of USSR, GAI was renamed GIBDD - Main Directorate for Road Traffic Safety. On March 2017 it was reported that the GIBDD is about to be dissolved until December 2018, as part of Russian police reform and will merged into the patrol service of the police.