Source: Maria Tsvetkova and Gleb Bryanski, Reuters.
(Reuters) – Russia is looking to the experience of other countries, including China, to “regulate” Internet use, though Moscow has no plans to broaden web censorship, a government spokesman said on Saturday.
Weeks after hacker attacks temporarily closed down the country’s most popular blog site, a state tender calling for research into “foreign experience in regulating” the Internet has revived fears that authorities plan to clamp down on Internet freedoms ahead of 2012 presidential elections.