Internet Shutdowns Highlight That Moscow Is Again Part Of Russia – OpEd |
Especially since launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Puitn has sought to shield Moscow from the greatest impact of that conflict on Russian society, arranging things so that the hardest hit groups were marginal ones typically far from the Russian capital.
But with his attack on the internet, Anton Orekh says, Moscow is “now Russia” again, something which has profound consequences for Muscovites given their sense of apartness from the rest of the country and for the stability of the Putin regime given its sensitivity to how people in the capital think (novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/03/16/moskva-teper-rossiia).
“We Muscovite live not in Russia,” the commentator says. “We sometimes visit it, but we know this country more in theory” than in practice. Indeed, Russians in Moscow........