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

[Johan Helsingius]

I am not sure if your archive contains this:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/report-ussr-gorbatchev

I think the IRC channel was set up by my former colleague Harri
"Scofield" Hursti.

	Julf


On 24/07/2024 19:32, Larry Press via Internet-history wrote:
> 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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> From: Internet-history <internet-history-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on behalf of Gergely Buday via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 10:16 AM
> To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at nlnetlabs.nl>
> Cc: Johan Helsingius via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
> 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.
>>
>>          jaap
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