INTERNET: Russia's New Cyrillic Web Domains: Promoting National Pride Or Cyberghetto?

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Russia's computer users are worried that the new Cyrillic domains soon possible will become a hermetic Russian Web, a cyberghetto, that it is a plot by Putin's security services to restrict access to the Internet.
"...since this is a Kremlin project, it is possible that it will lead to the introduction of censorship, which is something that certain officials have long sought,” said one Russian.