This also may be related to investigative journalism of his son who wrote this article and (already traditionally) is designated as foreign agent by Russian government. [0] It is very wrong when a terminally ill 72 year old man is put in jail.
Nonetheless, what's weird in the article is this paragraph:
"Soldatov survived [as deputy minister] only two years, and left in November 2010, unwilling to support government ideas then being debated, such as the development of a national computer operating system or a national search engine that would separate the Russian Internet from the global network."
Does this mean that development of Windows and Google has separated American internet from the global network?
Nonetheless, what's weird in the article is this paragraph:
"Soldatov survived [as deputy minister] only two years, and left in November 2010, unwilling to support government ideas then being debated, such as the development of a national computer operating system or a national search engine that would separate the Russian Internet from the global network."
Does this mean that development of Windows and Google has separated American internet from the global network?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Soldatov