This represents another step in Putin’s growing securitization of the internet.
Nonetheless, to move the state-controlled telecom—which maintains large swaths of telecommunications infrastructure—under the defense conglomerate would increase the security apparatus’s sway over its decisions, especially in the long term.
sanctions on Russia. At a minimum, the decision itself signals a Kremlin focus on controlling the Russian internet ecosystem and securitizing the Russian tech sector in the face of Western sanctions.The U.S. and other countries will have to develop policies that acknowledge even greater Kremlin control of Russian internet companies—however little Rostelecom’s autonomy and room for maneuver already, it will now have even less.
And for those in Russia, internet freedom will only get worse—as Putin’s paranoid security advisers exert an even tighter grip over domestic internet infrastructure.
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