Yiv says 'atrocious crimes' of Russia's invasion have been made
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2 March 2022, 11:26 am 0
A man checks his smartphone while waiting to board a subway in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
A man checks his smartphone while waiting to board a subway in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 23, 2019 (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Ukraine has effectively asked that Russia be kicked off the internet, but the request was rejected by a regional authority.
In a letter sent Monday to the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Ukraine's deputy minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, cited the "atrocious crimes" of Russia's invasion, including its alleged breach of the Geneva Conventions in attacking civilian targets.
Federov said the crimes "have been made possible mainly due to the Russian propaganda machinery" and cited cyberattacks "from the Russian side" that have impeded the ability of Ukrainians and their government to communicate.
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Federov asked that ICANN revoke, permanently or temporarily, the domains .ru and .su and shut down the root servers in Moscow and St. Petersburg that match domain names and numbers.
"Russian citizens must feel the cost of war," government spokesperson Oleksandr Ryzhenko said Tuesday.
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ICANN had no immediate comment but the regional internet naming authority for Europe and the former Soviet Union, RIPE NCC, rejected the request.
A view of the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)
In an email to members, RIPE's executive board said it believes "the means to communicate should not be affected by domestic political disputes, international conflicts or war."
Kicking Russia off the internet would be an annoyance to Russian hackers but it wouldn't stop them since they could still use different top-level internet domains.
But it would badly isolate the Russian public from international discourse.
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Apple halt
Meanwhile, tech giant Apple announced Tuesday a halt in all product sales in Russia, the latest fallout over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine after Kyiv asked for Russia to be booted from the internet entirely.
Western governments, sporting organizations and big companies have cut Russia off or dealt it punishing sanctions over the internationally
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