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Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own
(www.scientificamerican.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Removing russia from the internet would solve many problems for everyone else just not Russia
Reading the article that isn't the goal.
They are working on controlling access to the wider internet. The goal is to push people off of western services on to ones they control. This is so they can control the information their citizens see
They wouldn't stop Russian bot farms or hacking.