“Several years ago, putting pressure on our country, the United States discussed the idea of cutting off Russia from the payment verification system, that is, from the SWIFT system. Now the People's Republic of China is undergoing such a very serious, tough pressure, ”TASS quoted him at a meeting on the creation of a regime of equal rights in Internet governance.
Medvedev stressed that Russia should also be "maximally prepared" for such decisions related to the Internet by the United States.
“We proceed from the premise that the state as a whole should have the right to independently manage its information space, since this is one of the signs of sovereignty,” the deputy head of the Security Council said.
According to him, the corresponding work should be carried out at the international level.
In December, Medvedev called the real threat of disconnecting Russia from the global network.
On November 1, 2019, a law on ensuring the stable operation of the Russian segment of the Internet in the event of its disconnection from the global network came into force in Russia.