Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures

>How Runet Became an Appendage of the Great Firewall of China

That's a huge overstatement. Maybe in some border region some traffic was router through Chinese uplink, but in general Russian and Chinese networks are connected very loosely. My ping to Chinese sites from European part of Russia is around 260 ms, which is two times more than ping to even US sites. Same for ping to China from Western Siberia.

In terms of internet connectivity, China is even more distant from Russia, than South America.

> In an effort to shield its citizens from the global internet, Russian authorities have effectively turned Runet into a technological appendage of the Chinese internet network.

entire country is trending that way; an appendage of China. "the Canada of China" as someone else put it.

nitpick: "It serves over 320 mobile subscribers and is a key developer and operator of the "Golden Shield"

I think it should say either 320 mobile subscriber networks, or 320 million subscribers.

Otherwise, I like the writing very much

This was already published many countries use Chinese internet censoring technology this is no secret