The State Department urged not to disconnect Russia from the Internet

Washington believes that the Internet in RUSSIA should remain free and open for information to enter the country. The day before, the HEAD of YouTube indicated that the service remains in Russia,

Russia must maintain access to the Internet in order for the country to receive information, said US State Department spokesman Ned Price during a briefing, which is available on YouTube.

“We called on intermediaries from all over the world not to disconnect Russia from the Internet, so that information continues to flow into the country, and the Internet remains free and open within Russia itself,” Price said.

According to him, Washington will also support journalists in Russia, since recent events have made it difficult for them to work in the country, and they must continue to perform their "irreplaceable" functions inside Russia and abroad.

On May 24, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that the video service was not going to leave Russia, since one of its goals is to deliver independent news to the country against the backdrop of events in Ukraine. According to her, “information really plays an important role, information can be a weapon,” and YouTube will help Russians “know what is happening, have an overview from all over the world.”

Lavrov warned of the threat of cyber anarchy without Internet regulation Politics

In early March, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Communications stated that the country "has no plans to turn off the Internet from the inside." Before that, government telegrams for government agencies appeared on the Web, one of which contained a requirement for regional authorities to provide data on the resources they own, and the other instructed government sites to go to DNS servers located in Russia. The mailing list was explained by the Ministry of Digital Transformation as the intention to “ensure the availability of Russian resources to citizens” during cyberattacks.

A month earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted that there is a potential possibility of disconnecting the country from the Internet from the outside, since the “key rights to rule” belong to the United States. However, Medvedev assured that the Russian authorities have a plan of action in the event of a network outage. According to him, for this purpose, a law was adopted on the Russian segment of the Internet, which can be controlled autonomously.

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