Kevin Rothrock: Russian internet faces tighter Kremlin control
Pigeons fly by posters showing pictures of China's president Xi Jinping (R) and Russia's president Vladimir Putin set by activists of the international non-governmental organization \"Reporters sans frontieres\" (Reporters without borders) in Paris, on May 03, 2013. The posters bears pictures of chief of states qualified by the organization as \"predators of Freedom of Information\" gesturing angrily.
The Kremlin is worried that the West might try to shut off Russia's access to the global Internet. According to a report by Vedomosti on Sept. 19, the Kremlin might soon deploy a new set of tactics in an effort to defend the country's "digital sovereignty."
