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On October 18, 2006 "Rostelecom" received a certificate of quality of [[Multiprotocol Label Switching|IP-MPLS]] network and became the ISP backbone. In December 2006, Rostelecom and the telecommunications company [[KDDI]] in Japan under the "Transit Europe - Asia" signed an agreement to build a line of [[Nakhodka]] - [[Naoetsu]] with total bandwidth of 640 Gbit/s instead of the previous 560 Mbit/s.<ref>[http://telecom.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2006/12/13/227947 Россия-Япония: скорость связи вырастет в 1000 раз // CNews.ru, 13.12.2006]</ref>
==Sanctions==
On 24 February 2022 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Rostelecom under E.O. 14024 being owned or controlled by, or having acted or purposed to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the GoR. Subsidiary companies were also sanctioned.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. Treasury Announces Unprecedented & Expansive Sanctions Against Russia, Imposing Swift and Severe Economic Costs |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0608 |date=24 February 2022}}</ref>
==Ownership==
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