MOSCOW — Russia is not likely to build its own version of China’s Great Firewall to control the internet. The reasons are social (Russians like foreign social media and would hate to lose access) and technical (China’s Internet developed differently than Russia’s, making it easier to cordon off.)
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A police officer uses his smartphone standing in a hallway of a business centre, which houses the office of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), in Moscow on Jan. 27, 2021.
