How 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” of the Internet network.

Should these amendments be adopted, the country would use its own domain name system and Internet traffic routing, where only Russian websites would work. The telecom and Internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, would be responsible for centralizing the state’s control over this isolated segment of the World Wide Web.

All major major organizations that sustain the Internet in Russia would be involved, reports Meduza.io – from Internet providers, to the owners of cross-border communication lines, technological communication networks, anonymous system numbers (large groups of IP addresses with a single routing policy) and traffic exchange points.