Russia's Runet Is Now Real: How Moscow's Sovereign Internet Affects Global Routing, CDNs, and Developers
Russia's 2019 Sovereign Internet Law is fully operational in 2026. BGP routing is increasingly controlled by state infrastructure, major CDNs are throttled or blocked, and GitHub is intermittently inaccessible. Here is what the Runet means for developers with Russian users or infrastructure touching Russian networks.
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