Dear colleagues, I am extremely pleased to announce the release of the First Monday special issue 'Infrastructure-embedded control, circumvention and sovereignty in the Russian Internet', co-edited by Françoise Daucé and myself. The table of contents is below and the full issue is available in open access here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/693. We are delighted to mark the 300th issue and the twenty-fifty birthday of First Monday; the first issue was released on May 6, 1996 in Paris! Hoping it will be of interest, Kindest regards Francesca ----- First Monday Volume 26, Number 5 - 3 May 2021 Special issue on Infrastructure-embedded control, circumvention and sovereignty in the Russian Internet co-edited by Francoise Dauce and Francesca Musiani Infrastructure-embedded control, circumvention and sovereignty in the Russian Internet: An introduction by Francoise Dauce and Francesca Musiani Contextualizing sovereignty: A critical review of competing explanations of the Internet governance in the (so-called) Russian case by Polina Kolozaridi and Dmitry Muravyov Control by infrastructure: Political ambitions meet technical implementations in RuNet by Ilona Stadnik Controlling free expression "by infrastructure" in the Russian Internet: The consequences of RuNet sovereignization by Liudmila Sivetc Mapping the routes of the Internet for geopolitics: The case of Eastern Ukraine by Kevin Limonier, Frederick Douzet, Louis Petiniaud, Loqman Salamatian, and Kave Salamatian The Telegram ban: How censorship "made in Russia" faces a global Internet by Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani Codes of conduct for algorithmic news recommendation: The Yandex.News controversy in Russia by Francoise Dauce and Benjamin Loveluck 'In Google we trust'? The Internet giant as a subject of contention and appropriation for the Russian state and civil society by Olga Bronnikova and Anna Zaytseva Social media and state repression: The case of VKontakte and the anti-garbage protest in Shies, in Far Northern Russia by Perrine Poupin "Free libraries for the free people": How mass-literature "shadow" libraries circumvent digital barriers and redefine legality in contemporary Russia by Bella Ostromooukhova -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis.cnrs.fr> (UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS) Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT-IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cpt> | Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> | ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ResisTIC <https://www.resistic.org> On the Web <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>