Rumor has it that Russia is developing a new search engine called Sputnik which intends to dominate the Russian market. Since the search engine is said to be state controlled, the government will essentially be able to control the kind of information it wants people to have access to. Apparently state owned telecommunications group Rostelecom is developing Sputnik, which has been named after the Sputnik satellite. The report comes from Russia's Vedomosti newspaper. Even if Sputnik doesn't see mass adoption within the people, there's a possibility that it might become the default search engine that government officials in Russia use.
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