A man walks past an ads poster at an Internet devices shop in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 11, 2019. Russian lawmakers approved Thursday a bill that would expand government control over the internet and whose opponents fear heralds a new era of widespread censorship. The bill would install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
MOSCOW: Russian lawmakers approved on April 11 a bill that would expand government control over the internet and whose opponents fear heralds a new era of widespread censorship.
The bill would install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country. That would increase the power of state agencies to control information and block messaging applications, while users would find it harder to circumvent government restrictions.
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