Crimean IT infrastructure secure amid US internet monopoly – Russian comms minister to RT

Russia is actively working on diversifying its IT infrastructure and telecom technology in an effort to counter the dominance of the US in the Internet, Russia’s communications minister told RT, citing Crimea as an example of “complete victory.” Crimea has become a vivid example of Russia successfully securing its IT infrastructure when almost immediately after the peninsula voted to become a part of the Russian Federation, citizens were provided with alternative communication lines. “It was quite a critical task for Russian telecom companies to get the Crimea integrated in the general telecommunication infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Russia’s communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov told RT.