The final months ahead of the elections to the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) were marked by a total cleansing of the political field (see EDM, September 13). This included an aggressive crackdown on the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) (RIA Novosti, June 9), entailing reprisals against everyone who supported the structures of Alexei Navalny (Deutsche Welle Russian service, May 17), …
Russia experiments with Internet isolation. What’s going on? The Wachowskis/Warner Bros., 1999 Since 2019, cities across Russia have been testing ways to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet (known colloquially as “Runet”) from the wider global network. Most tests go unnoticed by users, and are only announced post-factum. We explain how Russia is preparing for its own sovereign Internet and how the new system differs from the “Great Firewall” of China.
What’s being tested? Legion Media
From June 15 to July 15, 2021, Russia held a series of multi-day exercises to test the robust operation of Runet, reported the newspaper, RBC, citing the infosec working group of the autonomous non-profit organization, Digital Economy.
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The Russian government is inching closer to its goal of offering a global satellite connectivity service after state-operated
Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday with
Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications (Intersputnik). The agreement covers joint use of satellite capacity and frequency assignments in Geostationary (GEO) and other satellite orbits.
RSCC is one of the 25 national signatories of Intersputnik, which includes 26 member countries from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and South-East Asia. RSCC, which operates as an arm of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, said the agreement allows the Russian government to provide access to its constellation to end-users on all continents.
Parler’s new partner has ties to the Russian government
Kartikay Mehrotra
Parler LLC, the social media app popular with Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists, is attempting to get back online with the help of a Russian company whose clients include an internet service provider to Russian intelligence, raising concerns about the conservative social forum’s security if it ever formally returns.
U.S-based Parler began working with DDoS-Guard on Jan. 17 after getting cut off from Amazon Web Services. The Russian company offers its customers cybersecurity services and web hosting, which includes reserving website names, collecting platform data and piecing it together to present on the internet.