The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015) is a non-fiction English-language book by Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan which examines the history of surveillance technologies in Russia from the beginnings of the internet to the Internet age.

Excerpts from the book were published by The Guardian,[2] Buzzfeed,[3] Business Insider,[4] Foreign Policy,[5] Motherboard,[6] The Daily Beast,[7] and Slate.

[8] Buzzfeed ran an excerpt from The Red Web on September 2, 2015, with the headline "How Edward Snowden Inadvertently Helped Vladimir Putin's Internet Crackdown.

"[3] Three days later, on September 5, Edward Snowden was accepting the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression's Bjornson prize – which he was awarded for his work on the right to privacy – by videophone from Russia.

The host of the ceremony, Per Anders Johansen, Moscow correspondent for Afternposten, confronted Snowden with a quote from the Red Web's extract in Buzzfeed, asking to comment on the situation with the Internet freedoms in Russia.