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Re:On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet S... by geoka9 on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:09PM (#21319003)
The independence of infrastructure is the stated goal. But I doubt it's the main one. They've been trying to shut down opposition political commentary[0] by forcing them to move outside of the .ru domain. The next step is to limit the access to non-ru TLDs since they can't control those.

[0] For example, grani.ru had to move to graniru.org several years ago, which was then blocked by most ISPs in Russia due to a government order:

https://grani-ru-org.appspot.com/wiki/Blocked/

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Re:On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet S... by FpUser on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:49PM (#21319616)
I am not here to claim that Russia is all nice and fluffy. But their stated goal for making infrastructure independent from the West is totally legit. It makes 100% sense. The rest is all guesses and speculations.
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