Venäjänkielisen internetin poliittisen sääntelyn kiristäminen

Authors

• Markku Lonkila
• Larisa Špakovskaja
• Filip Tortšinski

Keywords:

Runet, internet

Abstract

This article addresses the regulation of the Russian-language segment of the Internet, ’Runet’, for the purposes of constraining the activities of civil society and political opposition. We focus on the measures that started during the opposition protests in 2011–2013 when the Kremlin launched an intensive campaign to regulate the political use of Runet. We call this campaign ’the Occupation of the Runet’