MOSCOW, August 27 - RAPSI. The company Iteranet is not developing a system to monitor social media sites, or any other mechanisms to promote information in the blogosphere, CEO Igor Matskevich told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) on Monday.

Kommersant newspaper reported Monday that Iteranet is in the process of developing the system for the Foreign Intelligence Service.

The paper reported that a customer by the name of Military Unit No. 54939 ordered the systems, which were codenamed Dispute, Monitor-3, and Storm-12. A government source told Kommersant that the military unit is part of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

"They plan to monitor the blogosphere with the Dispute system, while Monitor-3 will analyze the acquired information. Based on the data, Storm-12 will publish the relevant information on social networking sites," Kommersant reported.

"We are not involved in developing systems to monitor blogs or to post information in the blogosphere. There were no such contracts," Matskevich said.
The Iteranet CEO refused to comment further.

Iteranet is a system and service integrator in communications and computer technologies. It was established in 1999 on the basis of Itera's IT departments. Itera's clients include state authorities, Rostelecom, Russian Railways, McDonald's, and a number of other companies.