Russia’s Communications Ministry has specified a list of threats that may necessitate isolation of the country’s Internet under a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on May 1.
In a proposal published on the parliament’s online portal, where registered users can critique a proposal on how the new legislation would be implemented in practice, the ministry lists three types of threats under which Roskomnadzor, the telecom regulator, could decouple the Russian segment of the Internet from the World Wide Web.
These include a threat to the network’s “integrity,” explained as the ability to safeguard connections between users; a threat to its resilience through the failure of certain equipment or the occurrence of a natural disaster; and a threat to the network’s security, via a hacking attack on service providers’ equipment or an instance when the network is subjected to “destabilizing internal or external informational pressure.”
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