Matveeva Tatiana Vladimirovna

Tatyana Matveeva is Head of the Department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communications Infrastructure. She sits on the Interdepartmental working group on digital economy ecosystems and platforms, and contributes to strategic planning documents and legislative acts. She plays a central role in shaping state policy on digital infrastructure and national information security, a position that stems from her formal duties and the Presidential Administration’s status as the body that defines and enforces national policy through Vladimir Putin’s effectively unlimited authority. The policy developed under her leadership has led to the creation of a state-controlled national segment of the global internet, with severe restrictions on citizens’ access to foreign resources and services. Infrastructure has been built to manage and, if required, isolate the Russian segment from the global internet and control major traffic flows. Censorship and content filtering have been strengthened, personal data have undergone forced localization and effective nationalization to guarantee unrestricted state access, and a state-controlled digital environment is being created for Russian users through blocks on foreign services and the promotion of supervised domestic alternatives. Since taking up the post on 28 March 2020, Matveeva has overseen—particularly in the context of the war in Ukraine—the shift from intensive state regulation of the internet to a model of a managed national information space, where security, sovereignty, and state control take absolute priority over openness, competition, and global connectivity.

Head of the Directorate for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communications Infrastructure of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Heads the structural subdivision of the state body responsible for the development and implementation of Russia's aggressive policy during the invasion of Ukraine