The Russian government will cut off Internet connections in an emergency

Recently, Russia’s “sovereign internet” law came into force, which will give the Russian authorities to block access an Internet connection in the “emergency”. Some Western media commented that this is the Russian government’s efforts to restrict freedom of speech. However, legislators believe that the regulation will ensure that Russian sites can continue to work when they are unable to connect to international servers or when they are attacked by foreign networks.

To achieve this goal, the regulation requires all local ISPs to route traffic through a special server managed by the country’s telecommunications regulator. These servers will disconnect Russia’s external network connection in an emergency and re-route Internet traffic in Russia, which is to establish a large local area network. Some critics have pointed out that this law not only has many difficulties and doubts in technology, but also has no advantages from the economic point of view, and even worsens the Russian economy that is in the quagmire.

However, the Russian government did not pay attention to these comments, and last week issued a document detailing the technical tests to be carried out to achieve this goal.

Via: Engadget