Putin and the Internet

普京称万维网系美中情局产物 俄要拒其网络垄断

Putin says the Internet is a Product of the CIA.
Russia needs to Resist its Network being Monopolized.




The following excerpt has been taken from a Chinese article that is quoting a foreign media report published some hours earlier. The Chinese article appeared in the early morning edition of April 25. It is dealing with a direct opinion post by Russia's president Putin to some discussion forum in Saint Petersburg. That post came after a broadcast on April 17 where Putin answered to the questions from Russian citizens and which could be directly forwarded by phone, email and SMS to their president.

据报道，普京称，万维网本来是中央情报局开发的，目前仍然受到美国的控制。普京说，为了保护自身的网上利益，俄罗斯需要抗拒他所称的美国对网络的垄断。

According to that report, Putin said the internet was originally developed by the CIA. At the moment it is still subject to U.S. control. In order to protect its own interest on the web, he said, Russia needs to resist what he called America's network monopoly.

普京指出，最近斯诺登所披露的美国对网络的监控程度显示，美国正参与在他所称的一场信息对峙之中。

Putin pointed out that America's degree of network control, as has been recently disclosed by Snowden, is showing that it is just having a hand in what he calls "some piece of information" in the confrontation.

普京的讲话再度引发人们关注万维网是否会从现在的模式分裂成不同部分的担忧。

Putin's address once again causes the people to follow the internet with interest [whether or not] joining the worries [about] the actual breaking up of standards [into] different parts.

美国中情局前雇员、“棱镜”计划泄密者爱德华·斯诺登在2013年6月向美国《华盛顿邮报》及英国《卫报》泄露了关于美英情报机构的大规模窃听计划。

In June 2013, the former employee of America's CIA and ["whistle blower"] of the "Prism" project, Edward Snowden, leaked secrets to the U.S. [daily] "Washington Post" and the British "Guardian", secrets related to the large-scale eavesdropping project of U.S. and British intelligence organizations.

此后，斯诺登自香港乘俄航转至莫斯科谢列梅杰沃机场。在莫斯科机场滞留1个多月后，于8月从俄罗斯获得了为期一年的临时政治庇护。

After that, Snowden took a Russian ship from HongKong and passed to Moscow Sheremetyevo airport. After being detained for more than one month at Moscow airport, he was granted temporary political asylum for one year in August [2013].

[Source: China News 中新网 on April 25, 2014]