[ih] Russia Jails the Father of Russia’s Internet

[Larry Press]

I was in Moscow for a conference and met and hung out with the Relcom staff a week before the 1991 Soviet coup attempt. We used Relcom to organize the conference and it played a key role in communication within Russia and between Russia and the outside world during the coup attempt. Here are some descriptions of  Relcom's role:

https://demos.ru/upload/soviet_coup_1991.pdf
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/about-the-net/Usenet/soviet.coup
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/125319.125403.

We also compiled an archive of traffic during the coup attempt. It's at https://www.cs.oswego.edu/~dab/coup/.

I hung out with the Relcom staff at the time. One anecdote – local calls were free in Moscow at the time and Alexey had a Teletype in his apartment that had been connected to Relcom for six months without hanging up the call.

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Subject: Re: [ih] Russia Jails the Father of Russia’s Internet

Russia does not like the open Internet as they did not like Radio Free
Europe.

- Gergely

Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> ezt
írta (időpont: 2024. júl. 23., Ke 17:02):

>  Johan Helsingius via Internet-history writes:
>
>  > As one of the people on the Finnish side of the RELCOM Moscow-Helsinki
>  > connection (it wasn't to a University, but to EUnet - that I was
> running
>  > at the time) I am really sorry and alarmed to hear what is happening to
>  > Alexey.
>  >
>  > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cepa.org/article/russia-jails-the-father-of-russias-internet/__;!!P7nkOOY!r69oxJsK-amGcGIL13HTUvQfnqWnhBylVLsXpi098BnqIzmsJJBYnx32Mwevw2ALvziopnjf8c4DaoPc5Tn79Sh3c__CWIk$
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> He has been under house arrest for a couple of years.
>
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