Since 2012, Russia has been actively engaged in trying to re-shape internet governance, as a growing amount of political activism has started to take place online. Russian leadership increasingly perceives the internet as a security threat through which the West wages its "information wars" under the guise of democracy, tolerance, and human rights. Thus, Russia is keenly pushing for greater "digital sovereignty" and restrictions on anonymity when it comes to all digital communications taking place within its territory. The Russian government, relying on its courts, has taken upon itself the role of final arbiter of truth with the power to purge all expression that threatens its efforts. However, since our individual freedoms and liberties are dependent on the existence of a private sphere, efforts to eliminate anonymity from the digital realm not only threatens speech, but also makes it a privilege, rather than a right. Hence, if the current approach of digital sovereignty advocated by Russia starts to gain momentum, it will provide national governments with a pretext for expanding censorship at the expense of anonymity and freedom of expression. Moreover, an aggressive assertion of national sovereignty in the digital realm can potentially lead to conflicts in the real world.