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Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet
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It's not about restricting information. It's not a problem in Russia really.
It's about simplifying surveillance, so that in some civil war scenario the Internet connectivity were still there, but only the controlled and monitored kinds of it.
And also it is - it really is - about preserving connectivity if backbone cables going into Russia from abroad get severed or shut down.
I still think all this is about civil war scenarios. Russia's history in the last 30 years is about its elite preserving itself at the expense of geopolitical power. They are just preparing for another stage.