Russia is “legally and technologically” ready to disconnect from the global internet if needed, former President Dmitry Medvedev told Interfax Monday.
Russian authorities have long flirted with the notion of tougher restrictions and control over the internet on Russian territory. While the country’s “sovereign internet” law passed in 2019 gives Russia the ability to cut itself off from the rest of the World Wide Web, experts have expressed doubts that Russia was capable of implementing such technology.
While Medvedev said Russia is capable of isolating its internet from the global web, he stressed that he didn’t see any reason to do so, calling it a “double-edged weapon.”
Medvedev, who is currently deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that the U.S. retains “key rights of control” to the internet which could result in Russia being disconnected from the global internet “if something extraordinary happens.” Pointing to another example, he also said Russia could also be disconnected from the SWIFT international payment system.
“We even had to create our own system for transmitting information so that we can exchange electronic messages if this suddenly happens,” he said.
Medvedev’s statement comes on the heels of mass protests that swept more than 100 Russian cities over the past two weekends. The rallies were sparked by the detention of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and the release of his “Putin’s Palace” investigation which drew over 100 million views on YouTube. Last week, Russia’s communications regulator said it would fine seven social media companies for not taking down videos promoting the protests.
(c) The Moscow Times
If Russia could do either of these things, they would have done them by now. Countries don’t announce to the world what they are going to do, or not going to do, they do it.
If they do disconnect from the US innernet Savushkina will be bankrupt. Not gonna happen.
The US should give it a try, see what happens. LMAO
Lots of suicides. LMFAO!
Maybe Muscovy are a little jealous of Myanmar.
https://112.international/video/coup-in-myanmar-no-internet-no-communication-whats-going-on-in-the-country-1429-1429.html
The chicoms are behind this shame. Time to kick China in the teeth!
What is innernet?
;))
The RTrolls from 55 Savushkina would be lost and walking around in circles if Moskovia took away their YouTube.
A typo. GFY! 😎
Ok, I thought junior fascist Medvedev came up with something new ;))
They wheeled Medvedev out because everyone thinks he is dead. Either that, or Lavrov is.
Or it could be the remnants from Medvedev’s “Russian Silicone Valley” project that failed so miserably. If the Moskali knew technology half as well as they claim, they would be able to make their own cheese and underwear. But, Moskali being Moskali, everything is a tool for destruction, not advancement, so the internet is just for propaganda, hacking and stealing.
The Moskali are still trying to work out how you can fit 6 gears into a gearbox. LMAO
LOL, yeah they are used to just repackaging and relabeling stuff to make it look like it is from Moskovia. I see now many Russians are claiming citizenship from other countries so they can participate in international sports. How long will that last?
Baaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
He was my favorite until he started to bend over for Putin. Still i prefer him over Navalny.
It’s hard to tell how either of them would act if the head fascist was gone.
Yep.
Once a Russian, always a Russian. Navalny hates Ukraine, so in that respect he’s no different to Putin.
Navalny is too much a softy to be able to rule Muscovy. Medvedev has more format and ruSSian odor (LMAO). I hope once Putler is gone there will be a serious president, not controlled by anybody, so Ukraine can finally breathe again!
Russia/USSR has never had real rulers, only dictators that suppressed the people. That’s why the people will not back Navalny with sufficient numbers to change anything. Russians need the state to control their miserable lives.
It is interesting that Navalny didn’t use us Ukrainian Nuland cookie-eaters as allies against the ruSSo-terrorist.
If Navalny was as big a threat to Putin as Russia, and the West would have us believe, then he would be dead by now. Something stinks about Navalny, he has been accused of being a Kremlin project, might be a grain of truth in that.
The Innernet.
An American thing for which the subscription is $??Fiddy cence.
Hahahahaaaahaaaaa! Mike IS from Louisiana….;)….maybe he talks like Fitty Cent? ;))
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8cce941a87da973ab95b0586f7d60781223a32e6ec2ae2af68e1de381021b827.png
Fuck you, man! This ain’t nice. You no i’m sayin’. Just stop da muthafuckin’ shit! 😀
Now you sound like a Yankee, LMAO
Not quite a compliment, LOL.
Well at least you would be on the winning team ;)))
If mafia land was to really disconnect from the www, how could all the businesses do international and national business? Surely, they lack the know-how and the gear to make their own. For certain, then the young people would REALLY be pissed off.
But, as always, mafia land loves to blow hot air. This reminds me of its supposed super-duper, hyper-diaper weapons that exist only in their empty, alcohol-soaked skulls.
How would they transfer all the stolen money into offshore accounts, without access to SWIFT?
Just one little example of the disaster they would bring upon themselves. Not that I would care.
Ha, maybe they are shitting their pants about the retaliation that is coming for the Solar Winds hack.
News for them,If the United States want to infiltrate and infect a machine, to command and control, you don’t need a lot of bandwidth. You could have a cross-border cell phone to get on the internal internet of the country. For that matter, you could have people inside the country, which all major states do, to enable cyber warfare.”