In an article published yesterday in the Kommersant Vlast weekly, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has proposed a range of measures to give a “strong, appropriate and balanced response” to the information war that he claims the US and its allies are waging against Russia.
The measures include imposing new restrictions on the Internet: Bastrykin believes it would be useful for Russia to follow the example of China when it comes to Internet censorship, where there is a ban on the work of electronic media that are fully or partially owned by foreign residents.
While some industry experts are skeptical that Bastrykin’s recommendations can be implemented, since they would require large-scale changes to the country’s legal system, other experts believe that such changes have never been an obstacle for the Russian authorities.
Read the full story in The Moscow Times and US professor Mark Galeotti’s analysis in Intellinews.
