[BUSINESSWEEK] Russia plans next week to discuss contingency measures to cut the country off from the global Internet in what the Kremlin called a necessary step to shield the nation from the U.S.-controlled worldwide Web.Zat mean the brute force attacks on our server emanating from Rossiya are gonna stop?
As usual, it'll be a one-way block...
Russia's state security council will examine ways to ensure domestic users can be redirected to servers inside the country rather than relying on the U.S.-managed Internet domain-names system, the Moscow-based Coordination Center for .RU domain said by e-mail today.
"We need to defend ourselves from the U.S. and Europe," President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s front man, Dmitry Peskov, said by phone today. "This is not about isolating ourselves, it's about getting ready for possible cut-offs as countries that regulate the Web may act unpredictably."
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
sanctions provoked by the worst geopolitical rift since the Cold War over Ukraine, has been tightening control of the Internet this year. Putin, a former KGB colonel who's centralized power since he became president in 2000, has called the Internet a creation of U.S. spy agencies.
"The Kremlin has already crushed all real opposition and taken over control of nearly all media that tried to remain independent," Gennady Gudkov, a former opposition politician, said on his blog. "Criticism of the authorities is now an almost exclusive preserve of the Internet."