The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the possible autonomy of the Runet

334 deputies voted for the draft proposed in December by Senator Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee on Legislation. 47 deputies spoke against it.

The bill needs adjustments, writes Meduza.io with reference to the head of the Information policy Committee Leonid Levin. The list of amendments to the document will be ready by March 13. But so far, for example, it has not identified the sources of funding for the entire initiative.

Point

• An infrastructure will be created that will allow separating the Runet from the global network and organizing its autonomous operation.
• The Russian authorities will be able to filter the data stream that is transmitted from the Russian Internet segment abroad – that is, to sites and services that are on foreign servers.
• The control of routing to the authorities will have to be provided by telecom operators. Here, telecom operators mean owners of points of connection of Russian networks to foreign ones and traffic exchange.
• Domestic Internet service providers will have to install some technical means of countering threats in their networks. They will allow the authorities to independently identify traffic sources and block prohibited ones among them. The state will provide technical means for free.
• A national system for obtaining information about domain names will also be created. Note that the domain name of the resource does not depend on its location. A site with a .ru domain may well be located on a foreign server.
• Control over the entire infrastructure will fall on the Monitoring and Management Center of the public communication network. After the adoption of the new law, it will become part of Roskomnadzor.

Justification

Andrey Klishas and a group of deputies controlled by him claim that the document was developed in order to strengthen the cybersecurity of the Russian Federation.

The explanatory note says that the draft was prepared “taking into account the aggressive nature of the US national cybersecurity strategy adopted in September 2018.” That is, the authorities promise to take a “preventive measure” in case of a cyber attack from outside.

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