A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Top two: Dmitry Medvedev took over from Putin as Russian president in 2008 before handing power back in 2012. He remains closer to the centre of power.
AP Photo/Mikhail Klimentyev, RIA Novosti Kremlin
Russia is threatening to disrupt the world’s undersea data infrastructure. This should be taken seriously.
‘Spy ship’: Russian oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky during a military parade off the coast of St.Petersburg in 2020.
Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Comparing the locations of key internet data centers and cable routes with maps of expected sea-level rise suggests it’s time to shore up internet connections in the face of a changing climate.
Cables crisscross the oceans carrying your internet info.
Telegeography Submarine Cable Map
The cloud lies under the ocean. Thin cables about as big around as a garden hose traverse the Earth’s oceans carrying all our intercontinental internet data.
Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne