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24.12.2019 · Russia has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet, its government has announced. Details of what the test involved were …

Western platforms in particular were fined millions in the first half of 2021 for failing to block content banned by the Russian media regulator ...

“The internet infrastructure in Russia is fairly decentralized, and as such it's not currently feasible to implement a uniform country-wide ...

Oct 22, 2021 · Russia’s boldest moves to censor the internet began in the most mundane of ways — with a series of bureaucratic emails and forms. The messages, sent by Russia’s powerful internet regulator ...

Jun 18, 2020 · Russia has significantly expanded laws and regulations tightening control over internet infrastructure, online content, and the privacy of communications. If carried out to their full restrictive ...

Dec 26, 2021 · The Russian authorities are developing a controversial "sovereign Internet" system to isolate the Russian network from the big world servers. In January 2021, President Vladimir Putin considered that large Internet companies were "de facto, the competence of the States" and denounced their "attempts to control society brutally."

In addition, the Russian state sharpened its tools for internet censorship. Among other provisions, a law introduced in July required foreign ...

The “sovereign internet” law envisages the full transfer of control over online communication networks to a government agency, from shutting ...

Russia stepped up state oversight of internet activity on Wednesday by blocking the website of global privacy service Tor and part of its ...

08.12.2021 · Internet Russia ratchets up internet control by blocking privacy service Tor Reuters / 11:44 PM December 08, 2021 The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen in this picture illustration taken Feb. 12, …

01.07.2021 · In 2019, Russia passed a "sovereign Internet" law that gives officials wide-ranging powers to restrict online traffic, up to the point of isolating …

01.04.2021 · Unlike China, which brought ISPs under state control early on, Russia is deeply integrated in the global web having enjoyed a largely free Internet for decades. As the government has attempted to...

Since 2012, Russia maintains a centralized internet blacklist (known as the "single register") maintained by the Federal Service for Supervision of ...

18.06.2020 · Human Rights Watch analyzed key laws and regulations that have been adopted or entered into force since 2017 and that collectively empower the Russian government to exercise extensive control over...

Apr 01, 2021 · How Russia Is Stepping Up Its Campaign to Control the Internet Russias President Vladimir Putin is seen in his office in Novo-Ogaryovo during a video-conference meeting of Russias Council for ...

Taking a path that somewhat resembles China's program of internet control, the Russian government has made a series of moves to restrict ...

08.12.2021 · MOSCOW: Russia stepped up state oversight of Internet activity on Wednesday (Dec 7) by blocking the website of global privacy service Tor and part of its wider network, with the communications...

According to the Federal law N482-FZ, internet platforms—including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter—can be penalized for censorship of Russian ...

It was not a network fault or server error but a deliberate move by Russia's state internet regulator Roskomnadzor to limit traffic to the ...

Russia and Internet Freedom

22.10.2021 · The messages, sent by Russia’s powerful internet regulator, demanded technical details — like traffic numbers, equipment specifications and connection speeds — from companies that provide internet...