[1] MSK-IX operates Internet eXchanges (IXes) in 9 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Samara, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and maintains an access PoP in Riga (Latvia).

MSK-IX operates a distributed DNS platform, which provides authoritative name servers for the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) .RU and .РФ for Russia.

[2] Also it operates alternative DNS root servers of Russian National Domain Name System for Roskomnadzor due to (Sovereign Internet Law).

The treaty assigned the Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN) as the administrator of the forthcoming IP-traffic exchange and defined technical requirements for connecting ISPs.

for Russia and alternative DNS root servers of Russian National Domain Name System for Roskomnadzor due to (Sovereign Internet Law).