On 11 July 2014 Russia's Interior Ministry posted a contract seeking a group "to study the possibility of obtaining technical information on users and users' equipment of Tor anonymous network" for $59,000. When media reports appeared, mentioning of Tor was deleted. Then company who won this contract (The Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics, and Control Systems, subsidiary of Rostec) then posted a contract to hire a law firm tasked with negotiating a way out of the deal http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-22/russia-s-plan-to-crack-tor... Now source of Kommersant close to the one of two parties of the deal says that project was nearly finished, but CRI EICS didn't meet the deadline, so that why there is court involved. Results was passed to the Interior Ministry where it's already in use. Representative of hired law firm told Kommersant that Interior Ministry wants to just knock down the price or force CRI EICS to pay the forfeit. Kommersant piece also mention a case when one user was deanonymized when he used Tor Browser to post trip reports and prosecuted for propaganda of illegal substances (I don't believe that was result of "cracking Tor", he probably failed somehow (maybe used real name), also it would be strange to perform probably costly attack for fine less than $100). http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2861002 Kommersant report (in Russian) -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc