The Head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media drew the attention of “Internet users” to a decline in investment in fiber-optic communication channels

At the opening of RIF + KIB 2015, the head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov said that the Russian media, representatives of RAEC and other Internet users ignore the downward trend in investment in fiber-optic communication channels. But their attention is directed to new legislative projects in the sphere of regulation of the Runet. However, the reduction in investment leads to a slowdown in Internet penetration in the regions. This has a negative impact on the Internet industry.

And in the villages and small towns now 28% of the population of Russia live, as noted by the director of the RAEC Sergei Plugotarenko.

Roem.ru quotes Nikiforov on this topic:

Our main project is the construction of fiber-optic communication lines in small towns. We have practically reached the peak of saturation in large cities, in million-plus cities. But the countryside today is still in a very serious infrastructure gap.
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Let me remind you that on February 3, 2014, the President of our country signed amendments to the federal law on communications, where, in essence, high-speed Internet access via fiber-optic communication lines is guaranteed for all settlements over 250 inhabitants.
The ultimate goal that we set for operators is that 97% of the country's population have the ability to connect to the Internet, at high speed, inexpensively, efficiently, through the development of this infrastructure.

It seems to me that you need to pay attention to many other initiatives. If you look at the current law on the budget, which is now passed, taking into account the amendments for 2015, you will see that the amount of funding for this project from 14.5 billion rubles has decreased to about 11 billion rubles. None of the representatives of the Internet industry paid attention to this.

What does the internet industry say? She talks about the law on bloggers, she talks about the registry of black sites, she talks about the law on personal data.