Russia has amended its main laws governing the internet to allow the government to restrict access to the internet and to control internet traffic in emergency situations.
Federal Law No. 90-FZ of 1 May 2019 introduced a set of amendments to the Federal Law on Communications and the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and on Protection of Information (the Amendments). The Amendments are colloquially referred to as the “sovereign runet law” or the “law on the secured internet.”