Russia has been cut off from the world wide web as part of a planned test announced earlier this year

Disconnection would be done to protect the country against possible cyber attacks.

At the beginning of the year, Russian authorities began drafting a new law that would allow the country to be completely disconnected from the world wide web and continue to operate only through their Russian servers.

In other words, Russia plans to turn it into a large, nation-wide intranet. The law establishing such a network was signed by President Vladimir Putin in May this year.

Basically, the idea of ​​the Russian authorities is that in case of cyber attack on the country from outside, the internet network can continue to operate only inside the country, that is to say only Russian web sites and Russian services which are of course hosted on Russian servers. .

The test of whether this would be possible and what would be the results of such a disconnection from the world wide web was due to take place in the spring, but has been delayed, so Russian authorities said it had successfully passed this month.

According to the authorities, Russia was successfully disconnected from the world wide web, and this was not even noticed by the citizens. Whether this is really possible is a question, but there are alternative and popular services in almost every country in the country, such as the Google Search alternative and the like.

"It turned out that, in general, both the authorities and the telecom operators are ready to respond effectively to the possible risks and threats and to enable the functioning of the Internet and the unified telecommunications network in Russia," said Deputy Minister for Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. , Alexei Sokolov.

Although the Russian authorities say such a measure is being developed and would only be used in the event of external cyberattacks, for many this is something that could be used to control the Internet and monitor citizens.