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Since relations between Russia and the West soured five years ago over the annexation of Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, the FSB has been lobbying for decreasing the use of imported equipment in areas where security concerns are high, such as the telecom industry.
Earlier, the ministry of industry and trade and the state-controlled tech corporation Rostec announced that they are jointly preparing a programme for manufacturing 5G equipment locally. According
to the ministry, local companies have the capacity
Google agrees to filter
censored content in Russia
zor press office, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).
While refusing to connect to Federal State Infor- mation System (FGIS), Roskomnadzor’s registry of banned sites, the US company began deleting blacklisted links from its search results a long time ago, according to various media reports.
Thus, the US search engine has now already removed from its search results about 70% of the websites cen- sored in Russia, according to business daily Vedomosti.
and expertise to manufacture a substantial part of equipment that will be required for 5G launch.
In turn, back in August 2018, FSB announced a closed tender for developing cryptographic re- quirements for 5G networks and SIM cards. The outcome of the tender has not been made public.
However, it's not clear if SIM cards are going to be used in 5G devices at all, which puts the entire idea of encrypting mobile traffic between base stations up in the air.
The business daily reports that Google has even reached an agreement with Roskomnadzor to receive an updated list of banned websites daily before deleting some of its links to those sites following additional research.
Roskomnadzor’s registry targets sites that contain “calls to extremism,” promotion of drugs or sui- cide, pornographic content, unauthorized gambling and games of chance, as well as pirate content.
In December 2018, the agency fined Google for failing to connect to the FGIS. Google has paid the fine, which amounted to RUB500,000 ($7,500), but was still exposed to have its site blocked
in Russia.
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