December 23, 2019 By Catalin Cimpanu
The Russian government announced on Monday that it concluded a series of tests during which it successfully disconnected the country from the worldwide internet.
The tests were carried out over multiple days, starting last week, and involved Russian government agencies, local internet service providers, and local Russian internet companies.
The goal was to test if the country's national internet infrastructure -- known inside Russia as RuNet -- could function without access to the global DNS system and the external internet.