Hidden aspects of the information war On May 16, 2017, the President of Ukraine signed a law that limits access to most of Russia's popular resources such as yandex, mail. Ru, as well as social networks "Vkontakte" and "Classmates". This event caused a great wave of discussion in the Ukrainian media, and the reaction of Russian news media did not take long to wait.

The main rhetoric of the Kremlin media, as one might expect, was the accusation of the Ukrainian government in introducing censorship and infringing on freedom of speech. And this is just the case when a straw is seen in someone else's eye, and in its - logs do not notice. The fact is that on December 5, 2016, the President of the Russian Federation signed the Decree on the approval of the new Doctrine of Information Security of the Russian Federation, and this event passed without special dust and noise. Although if you compare the new Doctrine with the previous one (from 2000), you can see the dynamics in the form of strengthening state control over the Russian segment of the Internet and increasing its role in the information warfare. And six months before that, a package of "anti-terrorist" bills was signed, called the "Yarovoy package" by the mass media, which later became a lever for implementing the new doctrine on information security of the Russian Federation.

In addition to the tightening of the Criminal Code, the draft law introduced a number of changes to the law on data storage. Now all Russian mobile operators should store records of calls, text messages and Internet traffic of users during six months. As for Internet providers and Internet resources, according to the laws of the Russian Federation, they should be included in the register of information dissemination organizers in the Internet and also store all user traffic for 6 months. Failure to register in the specified registry threatens to block the entire territory of the Russian Federation, except for Internet resources on the Roskomnadzor's "white list", such as google, facebook, twitter, instagram and youtube. All providers and Internet resources in the registry are required to provide any user information to the request of Russian law enforcement agencies and special services. Sites and social networks that were banned on the territory of Ukraine are registered in the register of organizers of information dissemination on the Internet, which gives the full right to the RF siloviki to access not only the personal data of their citizens, but also the data of residents of other countries where these services are used Popularity.

The prohibition of social networks "Vkontakte" and "Classmates", as well as search and mail services "Mail.

Ru "and" yandex "are the first steps that Ukraine is taking to counter the information war of the Russian Federation, but not the last. And while some "experts" talk about the huge sums of money and the time frame that are necessary to implement the lock, almost a month after the law came into force, all mobile operators and most Internet providers in good faith carry out it.

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