Prime Minister, Vladimir Poutine Russian is for Parliament to the Russian State Duma in Moscow on April 20, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/PoolBy Thomas GroveMOSCOW | Wed, April 20, 2011 9 pm EDT
Moscow (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Poutine on Wednesday said that he did not intend to crack down on the Internet before the 2012 election, which seeks to play down concerns about the recent attacks by pirates on a site of blogs.
"My personal opinion, it is that I do not think that it is possible to restrict something, said Putin, replying to a question from a legislator after his annual speech to Parliament.
Attacks on the most popular blogs site of the Russia and a warning to Gmail and Skype security service have renewed fears that the authorities want to control the use of the Internet before 2012 polls.
Social networking like Facebook sites played a crucial role in demonstrations and revolts that rocked the Arab world, this year, which prompted some Governments to cut off internet access.
Putin said security services were concerned that Internet could be used against the interests of the country, but added that "it is their concern."
"We do plan slaps down anything," he said, to make a play on words that referred to in the Chekist, a predecessor to the notoriously sévi KGB against dissent in the early days of the Soviet Union.
In a country where much media is State-run, the Internet is one of the last bastions of the freedom of expression.
Russian bloggers criticise freely often scathingly, authorities, information of corruption and the permutation of high level in question.
Security analysts say cyber attacks this month on the service of blogs that Live Journal could be a test to close Web sites more disturbances.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in February, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin that Google was responsible for the uprisings that helped bring down the Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
(Reported by the Moscow press room; editing by Steve Gutterman and Andrew heavens)
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