Russia is trying to gain more control of the information flow within their borders. The idea there is to replace western technology with russian ones. If you want to be really sovereign in the idea or teinistree, you need to make your own send conductors. But they all are still being made in asia, mostly by t s m c. O case of building out all these different parts of the stack ultimately leads up to an attempt to control information.
We unpick the week’s torrent of headlines; an invasion may yet come but either way President Vladimir Putin has already harmed Russia. The country’s digital self-isolation project is quietly forging ahead; we examine its home-grown “tech stack” with everything from chips up to apps. And we hear from a Ukrainian woman whose life has been upended by the conflict’s uncertainties.
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