Ph.D. candidate at the Saint-Petersburg State University
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Ilona Stadnik is a Ph.D. candidate at the Saint Petersburg State University, School of International Relations, and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, Internet Governance Project.
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In December 2018, a bill on the "stable operation" of the Russian segment of the Internet was introduced and got the title "Sovereign Runet" in mass media and among the public. It was adopted after 5 months later, despite doubts about the technical feasibility of its implementation. The law is very ambitious in its intent to simultaneously control Internet traffic and protect Runet from some external threats, but legislators still have no idea how it would actually work. more