This is a different issue. As I read the Perspecsys piece, it's
     about
     protecting Russian users' data from the NSA etc, and not about
     censoring
     online activity.

   And the Nazi invasion of Poland was to protect ethnic Germans from
   Polish atrocities. The same goes for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
   I think Putin is trustworthy. His most trustworthy moment was when
   Snowden called in to his yearly TV show and he told Snowden that Russia
   does not spy on it's citizens like the NSA.
   Let's take the word of a politician at face value, what could go wrong?