Russian ruling elites’ view of Russia as a great power transcends political leadership and ideology, and directs the state’s advancement of a multipolar digital order.
News and Research articles on Russia
This paper compares two controversies in social media governance and argues that social media companies’ actions indicate an expanded role for marketing and advertising as arbiters of the public interest in media content delivery.
In recent years, a myriad of “defensive measures” were implemented by Russia to tighten state control over the internet. Recent laws passed by the State Duma are likely to bring Russia's internet under firm government control.
The Russian 'dictatorship-of-the-law' paradigm is all but over: it is deploying online, with potentially harmful consequences for Russia's attempts to attract foreign investments in the internet sector, and for users' rights online.
Russian internet industry and civil society groups bite back at newest law designed to protect corporations holding rights to audiovisual material.