On November 20, 2025, the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry hosted a hybrid-format session, Internet Governance: From Regulatory Instruments to Quantum Communications. The event, organized by the Youth Council of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, was part of the third International Youth Cybersecurity Conference. As in previous years, the Coordination Center served as a conference partner.
During the session, members of the Youth Council delivered presentations examining the ways modern digital technologies are transforming approaches to public administration, international relations, and network resilience.
- Alyona Gerashchenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics) addressed Russian and international approaches to the legal and organizational aspects of user identification on the internet.
- Sofia Tyulyakova (Moscow State Linguistic University) demonstrated how the use of artificial intelligence to construct semantic trees for regulatory legal acts can accelerate legislative analysis and enhance the effectiveness of law enforcement.
- Alina Sviridova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) presented an assessment of AI ecosystems’ impact on the global balance of power, with a focus on technological competition among Russia, China, and the US.
- Anastasia Savelyeva (Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Internet Governance Summer School) highlighted the importance of multi-zone distributed architectures for ensuring the stable operation of critical digital services, and emphasized the increasing role of international standards in strengthening digital sovereignty.
- Polina Borodina (School of International Information Security) focused on the potential of quantum communications for information security and the development of elements of national security infrastructure.
- Alexander Ignatov (Institute of Applied Economic Research, RANEPA) analyzed the positions of BRICS countries on international information security within the framework of UN discussions.
- Nikita Solovyev (School of International Information Security) examined the institutional inertia of developers as a factor contributing to vulnerabilities in generative artificial intelligence.
The session’s moderator, Andrei Aleinikov, Chairman of the Coordination Center’s Youth Council, emphasized:
“The presentations by our Youth Council colleagues demonstrate that internet governance is a genuinely interdisciplinary field where infrastructure solutions, technologies, and legal mechanisms are closely interconnected. Such conferences allow us to see that young researchers express an extensive interest in the development of the internet and advanced digital systems, and dedicate their work to the analysis of current challenges as well as emerging trends.”
Arevik Martirosyan, the conference organizer, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, Head of the School of International Information Security, and member of the Coordination Center’s Youth Council, noted:
“It is important to us that young researchers demonstrate both extensive theoretical knowledge as well as the capacity to propose practical solutions that address the challenges of the digital age. These initiatives form the foundation of Russia’s future expert agenda in the field of international cybersecurity.”
The session materials will be included in the conference’s abstracts, with the best reports to be recommended for publication in the Bulletin of International Scholars journal.
