Russia 'tried to cut off' World Wide Web (WWW) A failed experiment to cut Russia from the World Wide Web (Internet) stokes fears of Chinese-style online censorship 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. 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. Andrei Semerikov, general director of a Russian service provider called Er Telecom, said Russia's 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. The objective was to see whether the Runet - the informal name for the Russian internet - could continue to function in isolation from the global internet. 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. Smaller providers account for over 50 per cent of the market in some Russian regions, generally lack the DPI technology used by the larger companies to implement the blocking orders, and often use satellite connections that cannot be easily blocked. Russian officials denied any such experiment had taken place. A Roskomnadzor spokesman said "there was not such experiment". The agency had not responded to a written request for further details by close of business Thursday. Sanctions that prevent Western companies from doing business in Crimea, the province of Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2014, have made some internet services unavailable there. Andrei Soldatov, an expert in Russian security services, told the UK Daily Telegraph the tests are a "pretext" and said the government is getting ready for the possibility of shutting down the flow of information from the outside world. "This is actually just one of a series of such experiments, and it gives us a very good idea of what they have in mind," Soldatov said. "If you look at the doctrine of information security, it is all about the same thing: the fear of Western countries using the Internet as an instrument of influence in Russia and so on." Russia has a number of restrictive Internet laws. The government can blacklist websites, deeming them as "extremist" websites or unsafe for children to view. Once again RuSSia's Putler is trying to hide the truth, He will always fail, and the truth will get out in many other ways. And as always putlers trolls will be online 24/7 spreading propaganda on a secured private Kremlin Internet connection.

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