Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is seeking to achieve an “independent internet,” Domain Gang reported Wednesday.

The Russian Security Council has instructed the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to begin work on a system of DNS servers in the BRICS countries, said the report. The acronym BRICS stands for an association consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Each nation is regarded to have a major emerging economy.

The directive to make such a move is a part of the protocol during a Security Council meeting which was signed on Nov. 5 by Putin, the report said.

“A serious threat to Russia’s security is the increased capabilities of Western countries to conduct offensive operations in the information space and their readiness for their application” — Security Council protocol

“The dominance of the United States and a number of European Union countries in the management of the Internet is still being preserved,” the statement continued.

In the midst of this, the domain name IndependentInternet.com is up for sale for $2,388 dollars at BuyDomains, the report concluded.

– WN.com, Shyma Hossain