{"id":62580,"date":"2022-06-07T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62580"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:54:17","slug":"russias-digital-minister-outlines-plan-if-country-is-cut-off-from-european-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russias-digital-minister-outlines-plan-if-country-is-cut-off-from-european-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s digital minister outlines plan if country is cut off from European Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia would redirect Internet traffic through Asian territory in the event of disconnection from European exchange points. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mintsifry\/1159\">stated<\/a> by Maksut Shadaev, head of the Ministry of Digital Development.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1346019\/2022-06-07\/rossiia-zaiavila-o-gotovnosti-k-otkliucheniiu-provaiderov-ot-tochki-obmena-v-es\">noted<\/a> that &#8216;Rostelecom&#8217; as the main backbone operator is ready for such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, there have been &#8220;one or two precedents of Russian operators being disconnected from international traffic exchange points&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are no reported problems in this area on the European front, added Shadaev.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia could be cut off from the global Internet.<\/p>\n<p>On March 5, federal executive authorities and the subjects of the Russian Federation received a telegram signed by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Andrey Chernenko with recommendations for protecting the country&#8217;s information infrastructure. ForkLog experts interviewed saw in it indirect prerequisites for Runet isolation.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S. State Department, it was stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/u-s-state-department-urges-against-disconnecting-russia-from-the-internet\">access to the Internet must be preserved in Russia<\/a> so that residents can obtain independent information.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began, Russian authorities have intensified blocking various resources. Read how to bypass the restrictions in our piece:<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia would redirect Internet traffic through Asia in the event of disconnection from European exchange points. This was stated by Maksut Shadaev, head of the Ministry of Digital Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1445,27],"class_list":["post-62580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-internet","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62581,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580\/revisions\/62581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}