Many developed countries work hard in order to provide informational security in national interests. They adopt new laws, adapt to new digital realities, but internet, at least most part of it, is not banned. But sometimes it is easy to simulate hard work, instead of to do it. The only way to provide informational security in Russia is to enforce restrictions on internet like in China, believes German Klimenko, Russian president\u2019s councilor on internet.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe only way is \u201cChinese option\u201d. Obviously the control is a must, because there is no any opportunity to prevent it (perhaps he meant a threat to national informational security, who really knows). The China has assessed the threat and restricted the internet. Currently they don\u2019t have such problems.\u201d \u2013 said<\/a> German Klimenko during his lecture \u201cInformational security of Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n He also claimed that foreign companies don\u2019t respond to enquiries of Russian enforcement authorities. \u201cWe are in a strange position, when the foreign company, residing in Russian Federation, makes money (i.e. runs profitable business), however no one enquiry of enforcement authorities is not satisfied. Unfortunately we can\u2019t write to What\u2019s app and ask them to disable encryption.\u201d \u2013 said Klimenko. He also underlined that if foreign messengers will not collaborate with Russian enforcement authorities, then \u201cany state, respecting itself, should throw them out\u201d.<\/p>\n Russian Internet-Ombudsman, Dmitry Marinichev, believes<\/a> restriction of internet in Russia on the principle of \u201cChinese model\u201d is impossible and counterproductive. \u201cIt is disaster. To fight with technologies this way \u2013 it is nothing. It would lead to absence of resolution. Because then you would need to struggle with your own citizens. \u201d According to Marinichev, a definition of \u201cinformational security\u201d can bear any sense and people must decide themselves what knowledge is harmful and what isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Press secretary of Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated<\/a> that Klimenko\u2019s statement concerning restriction of internet in Russia is Klimenko\u2019s private opinion; it is not official position of Russian government.<\/p>\n