The Russian Federation will develop Runet in order to protect citizens from global disruption in the operation of large network resources, but there will be no forced transition to Russian networks , reports TASS with reference to the statement of Federation Council President Valentina Matvienko.
As Matvienko pointed out, there are no plans to disconnect Russia from global networks, but the state does not want to depend on crashes on the platforms of Russia. Other people, and will therefore create a competitive product. & nbsp;
“ We have no guarantee that a human-caused computer crash will not happen again. On the flip side, there is no guarantee that certain forces will not turn the internet off at a certain point. This will have very serious global consequences in terms of damage to businesses, citizens, security, '' she said.
On the evening of October 4, a worldwide failure was recorded in the works of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, which could not be eliminated for more than six hours. On October 5, some of the Facebook and Instagram users encountered problems again. & Nbsp;
In this context, 70 million new users have registered in the Russian messenger Telegram.