This article is saying that people in Russia don't like the new Cyrillic URLs because they believe that this will isolate the Russian internet from the rest of the internet... Hmmm...... Is that what you think?

Have the Cyrillic URLs taken off (=become popular) yet, or are they still an unusual novelty?

Quote Originally Posted by New York Times
“This is one more step toward isolation,” said Aleksei Larin, 31, a construction engineer in Tula, 115 miles south of Moscow. “And since this is a Kremlin project, it is possible that it will lead to the introduction of censorship, which is something that certain officials have long sought.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/wo...22cyrillic.htm

EDIT: Thinking about this, I am not sure I see the connection. English is NOT the norm and neither is Latin script. My own language (Swedish) loses three letters online because they don't exist in English. Personally I'd support anything that makes the internet accessible to as many people as possible. According to NY Times' line of reasoning, French, German, Chinese, Spanish.... are also "isolated" because speakers of these languages tend to stick to sites in their own language.