MOSCOW – Russia is considering measures to protect its cyberspace from the “unpredictable” West, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Friday after a newspaper said Moscow was contemplating unplugging the Internet during protests or war.
The Russian-language Twitter account of the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, was apparently hacked today. One of the tweets, now deleted, read I like reading @Navalny in English — a reference to the Yale-educated lawyer and activist Alexei Navalny. The Wall Street Journal has called Navalny the man Vladimir Putin fears most. Around 40 minutes after the first […]
Russia further tightened its control of the Internet on Friday, requiring people using public Wifi hotspots provide identification, a policy that prompted anger from bloggers and confusion among telecom operators on how it would work. The decree, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on July 31 but published online on Friday, also requires companies to […]
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