[At-Large] 2019 year Russian legislation on sovereign Internet

Javier Rua javrua at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 11:59:19 UTC 2022


Thank you Oksana.

My thoughts with you and your brave nation.

Javier Rúa-Jovet

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> On Mar 10, 2022, at 7:14 AM, Oksana Prykhodko via At-Large <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> Once again thank you very much for all your support! We in Ukraine are really impressed by all your words and decisions - we urgently need your help and support just now!
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> I will do my best to participate in the joint GAC and ALAC session today.
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> On Monday I participated in At-Large Leadership session under bombing alert and with problems with Internet (just now I also hear bombing alert).
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> That is why I am writing to you beforehand about my point for AOB:
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> 2019 year Russian legislation on sovereign Internet and rumours that Russia will disconnect itself from global Internet on 11 March 2022.
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> (you can read more about this legislation here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online?fbclid=IwAR1S-u8b-fMzbzxrys-sIaZQxBL3ybHynGDhsDJkhhNc7k-a0oIRVrFZ0zY)
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> Yes, I know that Russian representatives say that the news regarding the 11 March disconnection is fake, but they have said that all warnings from our Western partners on the Russian war against Ukraine are also fake. It's up to you: to believe them or not.
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> From my side I am sure that they will not disconnect - not because they do not want, but after the failure with their famous Era cryptophones in Ukraine (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukraine-russian-militarys-own-encrypted-phones-impacted-after-destroying-3g4g-towers-allowing-comms-to-be-intercepted/?fbclid=IwAR1KrIo_dkc1Ucuh6IPDdlZZz4VXc8SPSvXhRcSzLRkSakmkj29tRVQfsMc)
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> Nevertheless, 2019 legislation went into force, and I am not sure that ICANN and the worldwide Internet community are ready for ALL consequences.
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> In case I can not participate in the session in person, I would kindly ask Joanna Kulesza to be my proxy.
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> Thank you very much in advance,
> Kind regards,
> Oksana Prykhodko,
> director of iNGO European Media Platform,
> EURALO ALS,
> Kyiv, Ukraine
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