{"id":13118,"date":"2025-06-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/06\/11\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:00:00","slug":"en-russia-igf-2025-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/06\/11\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"RIGF 2025 \u2014 The 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2025 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2025 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2025) met at Moscow&#39;s Soglasie Hall on 7 April 2025 in hybrid form, with 300+ on site and 2,000+ online, under the theme of digital security &#39;between sovereignty and global challenges.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Phishing, deepfakes and online fraud dominated, alongside child safety, satellite internet and IT skills; officials announced policies including a state anti-fraud system due in 2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A milestone edition \u2014 organisers called RIGF one of the oldest national forums in the global IGF system \u2014 whose shift toward a protection-and-security agenda mirrors a worldwide trend in internet policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>RIGF 2025 \u2014 The 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2025 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>RIGF 2025 \u2014 The 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>15th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>7 April 2025 (Main forum on 7 April, followed by the traditional education days on 8\u20139 April)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Soglasie Hall, Moscow, Russia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>6 (Six sections, opening with the plenary &quot;Digital Security of the Runet: Between Sovereignty and Global Challenges&quot;)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Hybrid \u2014 300+ on-site and 2,000+ online participants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Award<\/td>\n<td>The Virtuti Interneti award went to Pavel Khramtsov, Runet pioneer and DNS projects director at MSK-IX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Coordination Center for TLD .RU\/.\u0420\u0424 and the Center for Global IT-Cooperation (CGITC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>A meeting report was submitted to the UN IGF as part of the NRIs reporting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Note<\/td>\n<td>31 years of .RU and 15 years of .\u0420\u0424 \u2014 RIGF traditionally coincides with .RU&#39;s 7 April registration anniversary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2025 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Digital Security of the Runet \u2014 Between Sovereignty and Global Challenges<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary &quot;Digital Security of the Runet: Between Sovereignty and Global Challenges&quot; (7 April)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tatyana Matveeva of the presidential administration said the Runet was demonstrating &quot;resilience and active growth&quot; despite sanctions (quoted in English-language coverage) [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The plenary mapped the new contour of cyber threats, prevention of AI abuse, and the balance between growing domestic IT and dealing with global tech companies [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The session title itself \u2014 between sovereignty and global challenges \u2014 sums up Russia&#39;s post-2022 internet-policy stance [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Fraud, Phishing and Deepfakes \u2014 Threats in Numbers, and the State&#39;s Response<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Cybersecurity sections (7 April)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deputy digital minister Alexander Shoitov unveiled plans for a state anti-fraud system to launch in 2026 [1]<\/li>\n<li>Duma deputy Anton Nemkin reported that access to roughly 70,000 phishing sites had been restricted over the previous year [1]<\/li>\n<li>Fact-checkers counted 61 unique deepfakes in early 2025 alone \u2014 already 67% of the total documented for all of 2024 [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Child Safety and Counter-Disinformation \u2014 The Protective Agenda Moves Up Front<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sections on child safety online and countering digital disinformation (7 April)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizaveta Belyakova of the Alliance for the Protection of Children in the Digital Environment stressed parental responsibility for under-14s on social networks [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The disinformation section debated principles for countering digital falsehoods including deepfakes, pairing literacy measures with blocking and regulation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The safety-first agenda reflects Russia&#39;s recent regulatory course, which foregrounds user protection over free expression [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Satellite Internet and International Cooperation &quot;Under New Conditions&quot;<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sections on satellite internet and international cooperation (7 April)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers from the space-communications sector, including GPKS head Alexey Volin and Sitronics Space&#39;s Milana Elerdova, reported on domestic satellite-internet development [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The underlying, sanctions-specific challenge: securing connectivity without access to Western satellite broadband such as Starlink [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>The section on international cooperation &#39;under new conditions&#39; featured the Regional Commonwealth in Communications, framing cooperation around the post-Soviet space [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. A 15th-Edition Milestone \u2014 &#39;One of the Oldest National IGFs&#39; and Runet Memory<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening remarks and the Virtuti Interneti ceremony with laureate lecture (7 April)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;RIGF is one of the oldest national forums in the global IGF system&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Andrey Vorobyov (Director, Coordination Center for TLD .RU\/.\u0420\u0424) \u2014 from English-language coverage<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the internet had no cult of privacy and no ubiquitous encryption&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Pavel Khramtsov (Virtuti Interneti laureate lecture) \u2014 translated from Russian<\/strong> [1][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>RIGF is traditionally timed to .RU&#39;s 7 April registration anniversary; this edition also marked 15 years of .\u0420\u0424. The first RIGF was in 2010, making this the 15th [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>The Virtuti Interneti went to Pavel Khramtsov, a Runet pioneer who wrote one of the first Russian-language TCP\/IP guides (1996) and built information systems for the Chernobyl response [1][3]<\/li>\n<li>His lecture traced the internet&#39;s shift from a professionals&#39; commons to a commercial space burdened with security threats, urging the community to move past suspicion toward new opportunities [1][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What kind of edition was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The 15th milestone: 300+ in the room, 2,000+ online, and a defence-minded agenda \u2014 phishing, deepfakes, child safety \u2014 plus the announcement of a state anti-fraud system for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. How does it sit internationally?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Organisers stressed RIGF&#39;s standing as one of the oldest national IGFs and filed a report with the UN IGF, but speakers were overwhelmingly domestic and &#39;international cooperation&#39; centred on the post-Soviet space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Surging deepfakes (early-2025 cases already at 67% of 2024&#39;s total) and state-run anti-fraud systems are debates arriving everywhere \u2014 and Russia&#39;s rush to build domestic satellite internet is a case study in connectivity security.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Russia IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-russia-igf-2025-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Russia IGF 2025 \u30e2\u30b9\u30af\u30ef \u2014 About Russia IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Russia IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2025 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.iz.ru\/en\/1867333\/2025-04-08\/15th-russian-internet-governance-forum-was-held-moscow\">15th Russian Internet Governance Forum was held in Moscow<\/a> \u2014 Izvestia\uff08\u30a4\u30ba\u30d9\u30b9\u30c1\u30e4\u82f1\u8a9e\u7248\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2025\/03\/24\/opublikovana-programma-rossiyskogo-foruma-po-upravleniyu-internetom\/\">\u041e\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0430 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0444\u043e\u0440\u0443\u043c\u0430 \u043f\u043e \u0443\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c\uff08RIGF 2025\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u516c\u8868\u30fb\u9732\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Lenta.ru (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cctld.ru\/media\/news\/kc\/37777\/\">\u041d\u0430\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0434\u0430 Virtuti Interneti \u0432\u0440\u0443\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u041f\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0443 \u0425\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0446\u043e\u0432\u0443\uff08\u30d5\u30e9\u30e0\u30c4\u30a9\u30d5\u6c0f\u306bVirtuti Interneti\u6388\u4e0e\u30fb\u9732\u8a9e\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Coordination Center for TLD .RU\/.\u0420\u0424 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/filedepot_download\/21\/29846\">RIGF 2025: Russian Internet Governance Forum \u2014 Meeting Report<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat, NRIs filedepot (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 11 June 2025, 12:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 17 July 2026, 12:32 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF 2025) met at Moscow&#8217;s Soglasie Hall on 7 April 2025 in hybrid form, with 300+ on site and 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,11,93],"tags":[163,161,160,162,2483,164],"class_list":["post-13118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurodig","category-igf","category-regional-igf","category-russia-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-russiaigf2025","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}