The FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to massively purchase such systems in the mid-2000s. For example, on the eve of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, the Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased the KRIT (Collector of Scattered Information in Texts) system of Smartware - as stated, in order to prevent extremism. Now the production of CRETE has been discontinued, but such systems are now produced by at least a dozen companies.
As of January 2013, this is, for example:
- information and analytical system "ARIAN" of the company "Saytek,"
- Xfiles of I-Teco,
- service for monitoring blogs "Medialogii" and
- Semantic Archive is a product of Analytical Business Solutions.