{"id":15218,"date":"2015-10-21T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15218"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:52:12","slug":"russias-attempt-to-test-runet-by-shutting-down-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/russias-attempt-to-test-runet-by-shutting-down-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s attempt to test Runet by shutting down Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""Russian<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Robert (AK3Q)<\/a>, who shares this news item:<\/p>\n

“This was first reported by the Telegraph<\/a> and picked up by Fox News<\/a> website:”<\/p>\n

(Source: The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Russia has run large scale experiments to test the feasibility of cutting the country off the World Wide Web, a senior industry executive has claimed.<\/p>\n

The tests, which come amid mounting concern about a Kremlin campaign to clamp down on internet freedoms, have been described by experts as preparations for an information blackout in the event of a domestic political crisis.<\/p>\n

Andrei Semerikov, general director of a Russian service provider called Er Telecom, said Russia\u2019s ministry of communications and Roskomnadzor, the national internet regulator, ordered communications hubs run by the main Russian internet providers to block traffic to foreign communications channels by using a traffic control system called DPI.<\/p>\n

The objective was to see whether the Runet \u2013 the informal name for the Russian internet \u2013 could continue to function in isolation from the global internet.<\/p>\n

The experiment, which took place in spring this year, failed because thousands of smaller service providers, which Roskomnadzor has little control over, continued to pass information out of the country, Mr Semerikov said.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at The Telegraph…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Robert (AK3Q), who shares this news item: “This was first reported by the Telegraph and picked up by Fox News website:” (Source: The Telegraph) Russia has run large scale experiments to test the feasibility of cutting the country off the World Wide Web, a senior industry executive has claimed. 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