After murdering the opposition and invading offices of free press, this would be next on the list.
Via Daily Mail:
Russia has run tests to find out whether it can cut the country off from the World Wide Web, it has been claimed.
Andrei Semerikov, general director of a Russian service provider, said communications hubs run by the main Russian internet providers were ordered to block foreign communications channels.
The Telegraph reports that a traffic control system called DPI was used and the aim was to find out whether the internet in the country could work separately from the World Wide Web.
The experiment, ordered by Russia’s ministry of communications and the country’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, and carried out in the spring, reportedly failed.