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6 J. Cyber Pol'y 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jnlocybrpy6 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF CYBER POLICY Routledge 2021, VOL. 6, NO. 1, 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2021.1943478 Taylor&Francis Group EDITORIAL Editorial introduction Journal of Cyber Policy Vol 6 No 1 - Special issue For commentators in the West, Russia has long been the bad boy of cyberspace. For more than a decade, the scholarly and media focus was on Russia's harbouring of organised cybercriminal gangs, separated from the Kremlin by the flimsiest veil of plausible denia- bility. Since the US elections in 2016, that focus has shifted to concerns about Russian dis- information operations, particularly its alleged interference in the US presidential elections - and this has prompted a rich exploration in cyber policy scholarship. But there is more to Russia, including its disinformation campaigns in other regions and links to far right groups, its drive for digital sovereignty at home, and how this has impacted on its choices of free and open source software, its role in cryptocurrencies and its activism in the field of public and cyber diplomacy. As our connected world moves from the concept of cyberspace to a datasphere which encompasses all aspects of human activity, Volume 6 No 1 of the Journal of Cyber Policy is a special issue that takes a multidimensional look at Russia. This special issue is a collaboration with Professor Frederick Douzet and her team from the French Institute of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8's Geopolitics of Datasphere project (geode.science), a research and training centre dedicated to geopolitical and stra- tegic issues related to the digital revolution. It brings together six articles from a selection of 19 papers that explore diverse issues relating to the datasphere as described in Pro- fessor Douzet's guest editorial. The articles were originally published in the French Journal Herodote in June 2020; they are presented here, translated into English, updated and edited following peer review for re-publication. Following Professor Douzet's guest editorial, the issue presents three views of Russian disinformation activities. Camille Frangois and Herb Lin analyse the experience of Russian disinformation, and why its use of social media for information operations had not been more widely predicted before 2016. Martin Innes et al. explain how Russia's promotion of far right disinformation has normalised the use of social media for information operations. Frederick Douzet et al. present the example of Russian disinformation activities in Africa, with China used as a comparator. Next, there is an exploration of the growing importance of Siberia as a centre for crypto-currency mining by Hugo Estecahandy and Kevin Limonier, which touches on the control of the process by oligarchs and the migration of Chinese cryptominers across the border. Marie-Gabrielle Bertran provides a critical analysis of the Russian push for cyber sovereignty and the role that the state's mandating of open software plays in supporting that narrative. © 2021 Chatham House

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