Nexta twitter archive link: https://archive.ph/kpXzc CodeMonkeyZ on telegram: https://pic8.co/sh/WjMzVr.png https://t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/2779 The following article is from tekdeeps.com https://tekdeeps.com/russia-is-reportedly-going-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-youve-tried-it-before-communication-science-and-technology/ "It is rumored in the corridors that Russia can draw the Iron Curtain on the Internet as early as March. Disconnection from the world wide web is reportedly still in play. However, it is not new. Russia tried it “cleanly” a few years ago. Russia’s disconnection from the global Internet is not only at stake, but preparations for it are reportedly in full swing. This was stated by the Belarusian independent television Nexta, which was to be acquainted with classified documents of the Russian government. However, disconnection from the Internet would not mean a so-called “blackout”, but an adjustment of the resources to which citizens can have access. Something similar is already working in China, where several foreign services are blocked, and those that are still working must comply with the local censor. Its role is to manage the available information. It is not possible to find details about Tibet’s independence, the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, or the oppression of the Uighurs in the search engine. But it seems that Russia could go one step further. According to documents published by Nextra on its Twitter, all servers and domains should be moved to the Russian state domain .ru, no later than March 11. In other words, the Russian Internet will be separated from the global Internet and all content will be controlled by Russian Censor Roskomnadzor. This does not automatically mean that citizens will lose access to foreign sites. However, they will be granted access only if, according to the state censor, they are safe. Any attempts by citizens to join “unauthorized” foreign sites would be unsuccessful and Russia would create its own intranet. North Korea, for example, already operates on a similar system, but its Internet content could be backed up to one child. Russia is ready to disconnect from the Internet Russia tried disconnecting from the Internet as early as 2019. At that time, Russian Prime Minister D. Medvedev spoke of it as an atomic option that the country would decide to do only when necessary. Such a cyber alert was then ordered by a new law called the National Digital Economy Program, which required Internet operators to be able to keep Internet services running to a limited extent in the event of an emergency such as cyber warfare. In other words, if the country is disconnected from the global Internet, they can operate in a kind of intranet. This moment seems to have just happened. Russia has tested disconnections from the Internet in several phases. On November 1, 2019, it began testing its own alternative to the Internet, called RuNet, which can be seen as a tool to cut off the country from the Western world. Even then, the country was preparing to limit the operation of Internet services and redirect them to Russian servers. In December 2019, the government confirmed that the “cut-off” from the Internet had been successful, and the federation should be prepared to intervene in the event of a cyber alert. VPN would not work in the country Interestingly, the regulator should have full control over all Internet services in such a regime. A specific feature of the Internet, in which communication on all nodes is controlled by one centralized entity, is that virtual private networks (VPNs), for example, will not operate in the country. In some countries, these users use sites that are blocked by the national regulator. In China it is, for example, Facebook, in Arab countries Israeli sites or pornography. However, once a country disconnects from the Internet completely, VPN programs will not be able to bypass state-controlled nodes and connect to servers in Germany or the United States, for example. They do not exist in a closed network. If, in the end, the plans are not fulfilled and Russia does not decide to disconnect from the global Internet, it still has strong cards in its hands. In recent days and weeks, the country has begun to censor or completely block several foreign sites and services. She gave a stop to Twitter and Facebook, and several foreign services also decided to limit their operations in the country as a precaution. Among others, Netflix or TikTok, which either boycott the Russian invasion or fear the penalties they face if they do not adapt their activities to the new law. It prohibits the dissemination of non-official information about the Russian army and the “special peace operation” in Ukraine."