The Kremlin is considering how to make it possible to cut the Russian internet off from the global internet, according to a Friday report in the business newspaper Vedomosti.

The details are hazy and the Russian communications ministry apparently doesn’t know about the scheme, but Vedomosti claimed that on Monday the country’s security council and President Vladimir Putin will discuss emergency powers to cut out the rest of the world, perhaps by disabling non-Russian IP addresses. Russian ISPs would need to install equipment to allow this to be done in “emergencies”, such as during war or heavy protests.

Vedomosti said it had learned of the plans through telcos, ISPs and non-profit organizations, who said the meeting will also take in the results of a recent test of the Russian internet’s stability.

The practicality of such a move would be highly debatable, and of course contingent on the sort of mechanisms…