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Russia has put into action a plan to disconnect itself from the global internet and set up a domestic alternative instead., Russia’s Ministry of Communications announced it successfully tested a countrywide alternative to the internet.
The results of the test will be presented to President Vladimir Putin, who has recently signed a law forcing all smartphones and computers sold in the country to come with Russian software pre-installed. ‘Sadly, the Russian direction of travel is just another step in the increasing breaking-up of the internet,’ Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey, told the BBC.‘Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.
‘The calls to increase pressure on our country being made in the West oblige us to think about additional ways to protect Russian sovereignty in cyberspace,’ said Leonid Levin, the chairman of a Russian committee on information technology, earlier this year.