[zoomablemind]

Perhaps feeding into more conspiracies, yet it's worth to remember the recent law to "isolate" the russian internet from the rest of the world [0].

Securing control over the web server software (indeed popular for solid reasons) plays well into this lockdown objective and yields to the state a product that it would struggle to create on its own otherwise. Think of those failed attempts at creating a "national OS" to break dependence from Western originated Windowses, Linuxes, and macOS alikes.

0: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-05-01/new-ru...

[emayljames]

Good point, although there would be one fatal flaw on that objective; nginx is open source and can simply be forked (outside Russia).