Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

The statement did not explicitly address the question about the potential use of Starlink outside Russia, namely in occupied Ukraine, fueling further speculation. The map of the geographies ...

The Kremlin restricted access to the global internet in some parts of Russia, reports said. Residents were unable to access websites including YouTube, Amazon, and Telegram. Russia is testing its ...

These carry the vast majority of internet traffic. To take one example, Europe is connected to America by some 17 cables, mostly via Britain and France (see map). More than 100 cables are damaged ...

President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss a possible ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine. "This is another step in the ...

Russia borders Poland and Lithuania via the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, its westernmost region that is detached from mainland Russia. It also shares a maritime border with Japan ...

In January last year, Ermoshina and colleagues published research on how Russia has taken control of Crimea’s internet infrastructure. After it annexed Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities ...

Last week the Russian government tried to disconnect its Internet infrastructure from the larger global Web. This test of Russia’s “sovereign Internet” seemingly failed, causing outages that ...

Ren also asked for specifics and methods for Russia to use the Internet to "form a positive image" inside and outside the country. Zharov responded that image control was outside the purview of ...

Roskomnadzor has also pushed through multiple laws to pursue the goal of creating a “sovereign internet” and making Russia independent of the global web and American Big Tech — much the way ...