Russia Adopts New Strategy for Development of Information Society - Jamestown
25/09/2022, 22:46
control. For instance, on May 5, President Putin tasked the telecommunications
supervisory agency Roskomnadzor, the Russian prosecutor general, and the All-Russia
People’s Front (a loose umbrella group of pro-Putin “civil society” organizations, business
associations, trade unions and political parties) to prepare proposals concerning effective
restrictions
and
controls
on
the
Runet
(Rosbalt
(http://www.rosbalt.ru/russia/2017/05/05/1613343.html), May 5).
In the meantime, the Strategy calls for introducing concrete protective measures
specifically designed to deal with “issues of anonymity” and “impunity” among web users
in order to “guarantee the personal security of Internet users and confidentiality of their
information” (Rosbalt (http://www.rosbalt.ru/russia/2017/05/11/1614194.html), May 11).
Russian Internet freedom looks to be under threat.
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