The State Duma approved the bill on the "sovereign Runet"

The State Duma adopted in the first reading the bill of Senator Andrei Klishas on the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet. 334 deputies voted for the amendments, and 47 voted against. Only representatives of United Russia supported the document.

In his speech, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin called on the Information Policy Committee to approach preparations for the second reading “more effectively” and involve experts in the revision due to the disputes that arose during the discussion of the bill.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed removing Andrei Lugovoi (he is an LDPR deputy) from the list of authors of the bill, but Lugovoi refused. CPRF deputy Alexander Yushchenko assured in his speech that the CPRF faction would not support the bill, Vedomosti writes. As a result, representatives of all factions except United Russia spoke out against the bill.

The bill was introduced to the State Duma in December 2018 by senators Andrei Klishas and Lyudmila Bokova and deputy Andrei Lugovoy. If adopted, Roskomnadzor will be able to determine the rules for routing Internet traffic of Russian operators and monitor their compliance. It will also ensure that a minimum of domestic Russian traffic passes through foreign communication nodes in transit.

In critical situations, networks will be managed by a center created in the radio frequency service subordinate to Roskomnadzor. According to the bill, Roskomnadzor will also restrict access to prohibited sites instead of telecom operators. To do this, operators will be required to install special technical means to counter threats and comply with the requirements for their use.

Klishas previously estimated the implementation of the bill at 20 billion rubles. At today's meeting, Lyudmila Bokova, answering a question from the Communist Party deputy Alexander Yushchenko, noted that funding for the bill is included in the adopted budget, and the costs at the initial stage will amount to 1.8 billion rubles.