Russia wants Twitter and Facebook to store the data in local servers

• It has always been a bone of contention between the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, who are having their servers in US, for installing local servers by many countries like China, Russia and India,
• In their efforts only China have  been successful, forcing US based social networking sites  to have local data servers for sifting of all online activities of their citizen.

"Back in July, Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring all web services handling Russians’ personal data to store that information in local data centers. It was always obvious that this would be a problem for the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter, which do not use Russian data centers – and so, it has come to pass." Source: http://www.gigaom.com

• This may be seen as an aftermath of Russian interference in Ukraine. However in general it is being viewed as attack on freedom of speech
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