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The second of the two verdicts was, in a way, the more frightening. Officers of the FSB (the current acronym for the Russian secret police) showed up at his apartment the very day he created his website, in February of this year, before almost anyone had seen it. What's more, the prosecution's case relied not only on content that was actually posted on the site -- apparently, a collage of Putin's head atop a naked woman's body, with the caption "Putin is a fag" -- but also on articles critical of Putin that were found on the hard drive of the computer they confiscated from his home.