Attempts To Cut Russia Off Global Internet Infrastructure Being Taken - Kremlin Spokesman

Attempts to cut Russia off global Internet infrastructure are obviously being taken, since the country is facing sanctions and illegal threats from US trade organizations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview for RT's SophieCo program hosted by Sophie Shevardnadze

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 03rd June, 2019) Attempts to cut Russia off global internet infrastructure are obviously being taken, since the country is facing sanctions and illegal threats from US trade organizations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview for RT's SophieCo program hosted by Sophie Shevardnadze.

"We have every reason to think [so]. We faced American sanctions, we faced some threats coming from international trade organizations, from American trade organizations, not international, because what they did was illegal from the point of view of international law," Peskov said.

He slammed the United States for waging a trade war against Chinese producers of communications services devices and for confronting Iran and stressed that Russia had to take precautionary measures, since "certain counties" could jeopardize international law.

"We understand that we have to be self-sufficient, we have to be sovereign in all our capacities. All this is also applicable� to the Internet. The Internet is an international environment but, unfortunately, we are living� in a world where international law can be jeopardized by certain countries. We have to take measures of precaution," Peskov stressed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on May 1 into law a bill on sustainability of the Russian segment of the Internet in case the country gets disconnected from the global network. The law will come into force in November.