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The Internet Research Agency ( IRA; Russian: Агентство интернет-исследований, romanized : Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy ), also known as Glavset (Russian: Главсеть ), [ 1] and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (Russian: ольгинские тролли) or Kremlinbots ( Russian ...
History of the Internet in Russia. The Russian internet (also known as the runet) is a part of the Internet with its main content in Russian. According to data from August 2019 and studies conducted by W3Techs, 6.5% of the 10 million most popular Internet sites in the world use Russian. [1] In 2013, according to these studies, the Russian ...
As of September 2020, Russia ranked 47th among the world's countries by the fixed broadband Internet access speed, with an average download speed of 75.91 mbit/s, and 88th by mobile network Internet access speed, with 22.83 mbit/s. [ 2] According to Freedom House, the Internet in Russia is "Not Free" as of 2019. [ 3]
In February 2023, he confirmed that he was the founder and long-time manager of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company running online propaganda and disinformation campaigns. Prigozhin's companies and associates, and formerly Prigozhin himself, are subject to economic sanctions and criminal charges in the United States [ 14 ] and the ...
Russian web brigades. Russian web brigades, [ a] also called Russian trolls, Russian bots, Kremlinbots, or Kremlin trolls are state-sponsored anonymous Internet political commentators and trolls linked to the Russian government. [ 1][ 2] Participants report that they are organized into teams and groups of commentators that participate in ...
As social media gained prominence in the 2010s, Russia began to use platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube to spread disinformation. Russian web brigades and bots, typically operated by Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), were commonly used to disseminate disinformation throughout these social media channels. [20]
Runet. The Russian Internet (Russian: русский Интернет) or Runet ( Russian: Рунет ), is the part of the Internet that uses the Russian language, including the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites. Geographically, it reaches all continents, including Antarctica (Russian scientists on Bellingshausen Station ...
Technological platform. The TCI is responsible for resilience of the principal resource of the Internet in Russia. The TCI manages the automatic electronic system of registration and administration of domains .ru, .su, .рф and technical means needed to provide primary service for these domains’ DNS servers. The network of DNS nameservers ...