Newsweek: “Russia President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that blocks websites and internet services offering Russians a loophole into viewing content banned in their country. The law, signed by Putin Saturday and published by the government Sunday, claims to combat the spread of extremism but once again shuts down an avenue used by many Russians to circumvent their increasingly regulated internet. Last year, Russia flagged more Google content as “inappropriate” than all other governments combined. This law is the latest of several moves in which Putin, who recently rekindled a Soviet conspiracy theory about the internet being a “CIA project,” has handed internet censors sweeping powers. Newsweek takes a closer look at the Kremlin’s crackdown on the internet…”
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Vladimir Putin is arguably the most consequential world leader since Winston Churchill. ... Over those two decades, the young, grey KGB bureaucrat from St Petersburg left his mark on nearly ...
According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the KGB immediately after graduating from the law faculty at Leningrad State University in 1975. He spent 16 years in the Soviet security service, rising to ...
Vladimir Putin worked as a KGB officer in East Germany (Stasi) long before becoming the president of Russia. While Putin was on assignment abroad, the USSR fell.
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