Behind the Kremlin’s new offensive against the Internet economy

In recent months, Russian authorities took a variety of measures targeting the Internet economy, presenting them as efforts to combat terrorism or restore the country’s digital sovereignty. However, behind these initiatives lies “a union of bureaucrats and security agents, the business aspirations of state capitalists, and the Russian authorities’ desire to control the Internet,” writes independent journalist Alexandra Prokopenko. This opinion first appeared on the website of Carnegie Moscow Center.