From its beginnings in the 1990s, the Russian Internet (RuNet) was envisioned and engineered by its founders as a platform that would “introduce Russians and Americans so the world would be safer.” However, despite its initial promise, it has become a means of “ideological control,” says Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. erNYET: A History of The Russian Internet … Continue reading The Eurasia Center Hosts a InterNYET Screening: The rise and fall of the Russian Internet and the threat of Putin’s ‘foreign agent’ law