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UN elections set to influence how nations shape the internet

With free access to the web under threat, the battle to lead global telecoms body pits Russia against the US

Elections to run technical UN bodies rarely garner much public attention.

But when delegates from 193 countries choose the next secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union in Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament on Thursday, there will be much more at stake than the symbolic figurehead of an arcane institution.

Experts say the outcome of the election — which pits an American against a Russian — is likely to shape the extent to which nation states will be able to govern the internet.

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