No. 298: Russia's Technological Sovereignty

Author(s): Julian Nocetti, Gavin Wilde
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Fabian Burkhardt, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 298
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2023

The topic of this issue is Russia’s technological sovereignty and the impact of sanctions on the semiconductor industry and telecommunications surveillance. Julien Nocetti discusses how Western technological sanctions have targeted semiconductors as dual-use technologies. As a result, the defense sector has suffered, degrading the capabilities of the Russian armed forces in the long term. Gavin Wilde shows how the hardware and software necessary for the Russian telecommunications sector and the country’s electronic surveillance system have become increasingly inaccessible, creating obstacles to surveillance.

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