Russia expert Hans van Koningsbrugge: ‘Russia is increasingly closing itself off from the outside world’

“The Kremlin is increasingly tightening the reins. A new software program – Okulus (‘the eye’) – is now active that can detect a large number of insults on the Internet against Putin at lightning speed. This gives censorship in Russia a huge boost. Furthermore, there is now also discussion about the introduction of facial recognition on the street, following the example of how this is done in China.