The authorities are not going to take full control of Internet traffic, said a spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. At the same time, he stressed that the potential on the Internet there is the possibility of the threat and said that Russia “should have its potential to offset the possible steps” designed to incapacitate an entire segment of the Internet.
Dmitry Peskov called not to consider the bill developed by the Ministry of Communications on the state control over the passage of the Internet traffic in Russia as a full control over the Internet. Any state “is largely dependent on modern technologies, but they allow you to deprive entire country national segment of the Internet,” said Mr. Sands.
«In this regard, such a big country as Russia, should have its potential to offset the possible steps unfriendly aimed at to bring down an entire segment of the network” – said the press secretary of the president, adding that the work in this regard are carried out
at the same time, Mr. Sands noted that the potential on the Internet there is the possibility of security threats
<.. p class="b-article__text"> The fact that the Ministry of Communications has developed a draft law on state control over the passage of the Internet traffic in Russia, today announced “Vedomosti” newspaper. The Office has prepared draft amendments to the laws “On communication” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”. The newspaper said the Ministry of Communications has proposed, in particular, to establish a system for monitoring the state “use of resources, addressing global and global Internet identifiers (DNS and IP-addresses)” and monitor critical infrastructure elements and cities users. In addition, it is reported that the document provides for the possibility of strengthening control over foreign channels of communication and traffic exchange points.
The fact that the Ministry of Communications will offer the Government its version improve infrastructure sustainability Runet became known a year ago (see. “Kommersant” on March 27, 2015). According to the source “b” in the department including proposals were the creation of national IP-address registry, as well as traffic routes monitoring system required for autonomous operation of the Internet. These proposals are formulated on the basis of the Security Council meeting in October 2014, aimed at ensuring the operation of the Russian segment of the Internet in the case of attempts to disable it from abroad.
This is not the only initiative of the authorities, dedicated to the establishment of controls on the Internet. In December, it became known that Roskomnadzor on behalf of the Kremlin has developed a bill to regulate the operation of Internet messengers in Russia. According to the document, these services will be able to operate under a contract with operators in Russia, and their users should be identified. Otherwise messenger face lock.
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December 22 representatives of the IT-industry forum on “Internet Plus” presented to President Vladimir Putin “road maps” to the development of a long-term program of development of the Internet. The result of this was unexpected Putin’s proposal – to introduce a new office in the Kremlin, and to appoint the head of the Internet Development Institute (IRI) Herman Klimenko presidential adviser on the internet. At the closed part of the forum the president has convinced an online community that to promote their initiatives, they need “a man inside” government agencies. Read more
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