<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Oksana, you make a good point — Russia is cutting itself of from the global internet anyway. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So why is there such hesitation to do something to .RU when it could cause pain to Putin’s murderous regime?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I find the attitude of most internet governance specialists incomprehensible. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Slava Ukraini!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2022, at 3:14 AM, Oksana Prykhodko via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org" class="">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will do my best to participate in the joint GAC and ALAC session today.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Monday I participated in At-Large Leadership session under bombing alert and with problems with Internet (just now I also hear bombing alert).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That is why I am writing to you beforehand about my point for AOB:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2019 year Russian legislation on sovereign Internet and rumours that Russia will disconnect itself from global Internet on 11 March 2022.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(you can read more about this legislation here: <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online?fbclid=IwAR1S-u8b-fMzbzxrys-sIaZQxBL3ybHynGDhsDJkhhNc7k-a0oIRVrFZ0zY" class="">https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online?fbclid=IwAR1S-u8b-fMzbzxrys-sIaZQxBL3ybHynGDhsDJkhhNc7k-a0oIRVrFZ0zY</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 (<a href="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" class="">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</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nevertheless, 2019 legislation went into force, and I am not sure that ICANN and the worldwide Internet community are ready for ALL consequences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In case I can not participate in the session in person, I would kindly ask Joanna Kulesza to be my proxy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much in advance,</div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class="">Oksana Prykhodko,</div><div class="">director of iNGO European Media Platform,</div><div class="">EURALO ALS,</div><div class="">Kyiv, Ukraine</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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