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Meeting the Russians in Germany

by Veni Markovski on April 30, 2009

Since signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Information Security Issues (IISI) last year, the relationship between ICANN and Russia continues to strengthen.
At a meeting in Garmisch, Germany, Russian high-level officials dedicated a whole day to relations with ICANN. The Third International Partnership Among State, Business Community and Civil Society in Ensuring [...]

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ICANN и Координационный центр домена RU продолжают развивать сотрудничество

by Veni Markovski on April 8, 2008

Press release in Russian about the continuous cooperation between ICANN and the .ru ccTLD Coordination Center (in Russian):

ICANN и Координационный центр домена RU (Администратор национального домена верхнего уровня .RU), начиная с 2007 года, проводят совместную работу, направленную на расширение представления российских интернет-пользователей о развитии Интернета и обеспечение возможностей для участия в этом процессе.

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Will there really be a new Russian Internet?

by Veni Markovski on January 11, 2008

There have been some reports in the past few days about possible “division” of the Internet in Russia, tied in with speculation that the forthcoming Cyrillic domain names will be used to grant the Russian government more control over its citizens. The source of this speculation appears to be an article published in UK newspaper The Guardian. That article was then reproduced in a number of Russian news articles, most of them quoting a direct translation published by SecurityLab.

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