The Kremlin explained the need for control over Internet traffic – RBC

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The authorities are not going to take full control of Internet traffic, said the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, it is only the intention to offset some of the steps that threaten the whole network segment

The information about the plans of the authorities to control the Internet traffic – is “arbitrary interpretation,” said presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, RBC reports.

«In Russia only want to compensate for possible unfriendly steps aimed at to bring down whole segments of the Internet” – said Peskov. Potentially, such steps are possible, he said, but he said, “to treat these plans as the total control – not true».

On the eve of “Vedomosti” reported that the Ministry of Communications has developed a bill to control Internet traffic in Russia to protect the network from external threats. Draft amendments to the laws “On communication” and “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information” will allow state agencies to monitor the flow of Internet traffic in Russia, the newspaper wrote.

The amendments the Ministry of Communications suggests that there will be established a state monitoring system “the use of resources and global addressing global network of Internet identifiers (DNS and IP-addresses)».

If the law is adopted, the address register Runet appear in Russia.

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According to “Vedomosti”, the document was developed in response to President Vladimir Putin’s orders, which he gave after the security Council meeting in the autumn of 2014. At the council talked about minimizing the risks for the Russian segment of the World Wide Web in the event of temporary disconnection from the outside world.

An unnamed federal official explained to the newspaper that the amendments are necessary to ensure that state agencies were able to understand how the Russian segment of the Web, because right now this understanding is no. According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, because of its chaotic development Runet very complex structure, and it prevents the authorities to protect it from external threats.