The Kremlin is turning to China for technology to filter Russian cyberspace. Beijing is all too willing to lend a hand.
In the early morning of 27 April 2016, a group of Chinese officials in business suits headed towards a huge concrete building on Moscow’s Zubovsky Boulevard: the headquarters of Russia Today, Russia’s main propaganda outlet.
On that day, RT was hosting the First Russia–China Cyber Forum; top internet officials from both countries were in attendance. They had gathered to find a solution to a problem Russian authorities have been struggling with for five years: how to bring the internet and social media under their control.
China: The architect of Putin’s firewallRead More
