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Defense One: Russia Will Test Its Ability to Disconnect from the Internet
The nascent RuNet is meant to allow the country to survive an attack — and Putin to monitor and control the population.
Russia will test its internal RuNet network to see whether the country can function without the global internet, the Russian government announced Monday. The tests will begin after Nov. 1, recur at least annually, and possibly more frequently. It’s the latest move in a series of technical and policy steps intended to allow the Russian government to cut its citizens off from the rest of the world.
“On Monday, the government approved the provision on conducting exercises to ensure the stable, safe and holistic functioning of the Internet and public communications networks in the Russian Federation,” notes an article in D-Russia. (The original article is in Russian. We verified a translation with the help of a native Russian speaker.) “The exercises are held at the federal (in the territory of the Russian Federation) and regional (in the territory of one or more constituent entities of the Russian Federation) levels.”
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WNU Editor: WNU predicted this 10 years ago .... Kremlin May Tighten Up Internet Use In Russia (July 2, 2019). The Kremlin's attempts to censor the internet in the past few years have also failed .... The Kremlin Has Failed In Censoring The Internet (July 14, 2017). And as for a Kremlin internet kill-switch, this is also nothing new. WNU posted this story last year .... Russia Has A Kill Switch To Disconnect Itself From The World Wide Web (March 11, 2018).
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