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Russia's Top Cop Wants Internet Censorship to Fight U.S. 'Info War'

The head of Russia's Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has proposed a range of measures to give a “strong, appropriate and balanced response” to the information war that he claims the U.S.and its allies are waging against Russia.

The measures — revealed by Bastrykin in his article published Monday in the Kommersant Vlast weekly — include imposing restrictions on the Internet as well as treating the non-recognition of a 2014 referendum in Crimea as extremism.

The proposals come as the hybrid war waged by the U.S. against Russia and a number of other countries, has turned into an open confrontation in recent years, according to Bastrykin.

Part of this war, according to Bastrykin, includes sanctions imposed on Russia by a number of Western countries, as well as some decisions made by international courts. He cited as an example rulings concerning the ex-shareholders of the defunct oil firm Yukos and the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.