Is Russia on the verge of creating its own controlled, closed internet?

The idea of a closed internet is hardly new; turn your eyes to East Asia, and the Great Firewall of China looms large.

The Chinese government is well known for the control it likes to exert over the levels of access its citizens have to the internet, and there have been numerous well-publicized cases of censorship and access being restricted to pages that refer to certain events in the county’s history.