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Russia plans to filter all Rунet traffic by end of year, boosting capacity fivefold
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The Russian Ministry of Digital Development announced on March 25 that it will begin filtering the entire internet protocol (IP) address space within this fiscal year as part of a broader digital sovereignty initiative to combat cybercrime and corruption by state officials.
Key Points
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1The Ministry of Digital Development plans to increase the throughput capacity for traffic filtering equipment by a factor of up to two and half times before end-December.
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2To achieve this, an additional budget allocation totaling approximately $1.5 billion is planned in total over several years (specifically 2034).
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3The Ministry intends that all Internet users will be able to filter traffic starting from the current year.
Developments
March 19
"Ministry of Digital Development plans to increase the throughput capacity for traffic filtering equipment by a factor up two and half times before end December"