&lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/11/russia-passes-bill-internet-cut-off-foreign-servers">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/11/russia-passes-bill-internet-cut-off-foreign-servers</a>&gt;<br><br>Russian politicians have approved a controversial bill that would allow Moscow to cut off the country’s internet traffic from foreign servers, in a key second reading that paves the way for the bill to become law on 1 November.<br><br>Lawmakers in the State Duma, parliament’s lower house, voted 320 to 15 to pass the proposed bill.<br><br>The proposed measures would create technology to monitor internet routing and steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers, ostensibly to prevent a foreign country from shutting it down.<br><br>Authors of the initiative say Russia must ensure the security of its networks after the US president, Donald Trump, unveiled a new US cybersecurity strategy last year that said Russia had carried out cyber-attacks with impunity.<br><br>The legislation has been dubbed a “sovereign internet” bill by Russian media.<br>[...]