Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Baurzhan Rakhmetov is a PhD candidate at Cardiff University. His dissertation ...

In order to please our European allies and our Third World critics, the Obama administration may be tempted to surrender one particular manifestation of American “dominance”: central management of key ...

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Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling the Biden administration‘s “digital equity” plan for all internet services and infrastructure an “unlawful power grab.” ...

BOSTON — Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall.

Citizens in authoritarian regimes worldwide are managing to evade internet controls in an attempt to get uncensored information. “Mobile users would have to use the same techniques as desktop users, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY BOSTON (AP) — Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful ...

Since 2019, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his plan to separate Russia from the global internet. The country’s sovereign internet law, which came into force that November, gives officials the power ...

On Jan. 28, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the government to write draft rules restricting foreign technology companies operating in Russia. These forthcoming ...