Russian economy could lose $1 billion this year because of the Telegram ban
The collateral damage to the Russian economy caused by the Russian authorities’ efforts to block Telegram will reach $1 billion within a few months, according to software company Flexbby, cited by...
View ArticleHow Russia could build its own, autonomous Internet
On December 14 Russian lawmakers Lyudmila Bokova, Andrey Klishas and Andrey Lugovoy submitted to the State Duma draft amendments to the existing legislation to ensure a “secure and stable functioning”...
View ArticleIXcellerate and Rostelecom plan to invest massively in Russian data centers
Last week IXcellerate, a leading commercial data center operator in Russia, announced a five-year $260 million investment plan. The funding will be provided by the company’s shareholders as well as...
View ArticleHow a highly connected military figure became Russia’s point man for...
In November 2019, Russia’s so-called “Internet sovereignty law” took effect, requiring all local telecom operators to install special equipment designed to “withstand foreign threats” and block...
View ArticleWill Russia enforce its new Internet laws in 2020?
It’s been two months since Russia passed the sovereign internet law giving it the right to cut Russia from the rest of the online world. Not much has changed, despite fears that the new legislation...
View ArticleReport: Russia ranks 42nd for ‘digital qualify of life’
VPN provider Surfshark has issued a research on the “digital quality of life” (DQL) across 85 countries of the world. Revealing the factors that “have the greatest impact on digital well-being,” the...
View ArticleAt 1.6% of net salary, Russia ranks 18th in Europe for broadband Internet...
AddictiveTips.com, an online resource on apps, phone and the web, has calculated the cost of broadband Internet relative to users’ income across 37 European countries. Price data came from Cable.co.uk...
View ArticleMapping the routes of the Internet for geopolitics: The case of Eastern Ukraine
A team of French and US researchers has just published a paper about the geopolitical significance of data routing, through the analysis of Eastern Ukraine. Their paper proposes “new methodologies to...
View ArticleHow Russia experiments with Internet isolation
Since 2019, cities across Russia have been testing ways to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet (known colloquially as “Runet”) from the wider global network. Most tests go unnoticed by...
View ArticleRussia has been preparing to have its internet cut off
Among Joe Biden’s options to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine are disruptive cyberattacks—the kind that Russia itself often unleashes on other countries. Even more broadly, sanctions experts...
View ArticleVPN use skyrockets as Russia blocks popular social networks and media resources
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are more in use than ever in Russia as a number of social networks and media have been made inaccessible by the authorities. Mobile operator Yota reports that the...
View ArticleRussia is taking over the Internet in Ukraine’s occupied territories
Webpages in the city of Kherson in south Ukraine stopped loading on people’s devices at 2:43 pm on May 30. For the next 59 minutes, anyone connecting to the internet with KhersonTelecom, known locally...
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