Internet in the United States Internet in the United States The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States in turn provided the foundation for the worldwide Internet of today. Internet access in the United States is largely provided by the private sector and is available in a variety of forms, using a variety of technologies, at a wide range of speeds and costs. In 2015, 97.5% of Americans were using the Internet, which ranks the U.S. 4th out
Non-system opposition Non-system opposition In modern Russian political terminology, the non-system opposition or non-systemic opposition () are oppositional forces which operate outside of the official political establishment. Alternatively, the systemic opposition operates in the form of registered political parties. There are two major reasons of the existence of the non-system opposition. First, the Russian Law on Political Parties was setting a high threshold for a political party to be registered for the participation in elections, the highest hurdle being the requirement to have at least 45,000 members. Second, a number of activists, such as Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Bukovsky are in principle