The recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine is gradually revealing the plans that Russia has had for several years, which seem to return it to the feudal stage, since seeks to exclude itself from the Western world, so it prepares its disconnection from global Internet networks to set up its ownexclusive to Soviet territory.
In accordance with Kommersanthalf russian, the Kremlin informed all digital entities registered in Russia that by March 11 they have to change their domaineliminating any intervention of foreign networks and servers within the Russian Internet network.
This measure could be motivated after thehe international pressure from Ukraine, NATO and other Western alliesto withdraw Russia from the global Internet service, something that has not happened so far, but that has been echoed in digital services such as PayPal or Twitch, which eliminated their participation in this country.
Given the possibility that the data and support of Russian websites could disappear immediately if the disconnection of this European power takes place, the Russian government poses this as a palliative measure, organizing an all-Russian Internet network and of which the Kremlin can have absolute control.
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Although something like this would be difficult to manage as a containment plan, this one uses the “sovereign Internet” law that Vladimir Putin enacted in 2019with which the entire network of servers within the country is centralized, giving the central government power to make and break any connection.
RuNet, the alternative to the Soviet Internet
This plan, although complex, will begin to be applied as of March 11, in which Russia plans to disconnect from the global network to implement the RuNetwhich will resemble the web services that China and much of the Asian region have, with great control over the platforms and the transmission of user data.
Although this poses something much more closed, the idea of control is the same, seeking that all the information that circulates is available to the owner of the networkwhich in this case is the administration of Vladimir Putin.
However, disconnecting from the global network is more complicated than it seemsbecause even if a service is hosted on entirely Russian servers, the programming and interface conditions may not belong only to the owner of the server in question.
Plugins, CMS, security protocols, data encryptors and other tools will also have to be managed by the Russian government in case you seek this total disconnection, which will have an impact on services and markets that have a presence abroad or with those that belong to other countries and are in Russia.
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