From the comments to the article "The State will take control of the critical infrastructure of Runet"

BlessYourHeart
This is all due to the insufficient intellectual capabilities of the current powerholders.
In their sick concept of the world there is the Great Russia and the Evil West. With this arrangement, of course, it is logical to have protection if the Evil West decides to disconnect Great Russia from such a resource as the Internet.

NUWEN
I fear they have a more cynical view of the world: there is a great West, in which their offspring live and their savings are stored, and there is a wicked Russian woman on the chain, which they doy and tighten their necklace.