The background to this is a steady ratcheting up of Russian censorship. After the role of the internet in organising protests in 2011 and 2012, the Kremlin announced that a "sovereign internet ...

Almost half the world was impacted by internet restrictions in 2024. Which country was affected the most, and how can people ...

"This event is crucial in the possible evolution of online censorship in Russia because it shows what's technically possible – a very limited internet experience where most common things simply ...

The independent tech community is implementing new technologies to fight internet shutdowns in Russia, while the government prepares to create a fully ‘domestic’ internet.

In 2024, increasingly more people worldwide turned to VPN apps to bypass internet censorship and social media blocks. Proton ...

[Courtesy VOA] Leaked documents provided to VOA's sister network RFE/RL confirm reports that Russia and China collaborate on censorship and internet control tactics. The materials detail documents ...

The collective West has unleashed the biggest-ever totalitarian censorship ... recalled that for years Russia has been calling for developing a legal framework for internet resources and has ...

President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is ...

KAZAN, October 23. /TASS/. Russia is facing open censorship from US IT giants daily, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said Friday speaking at the Fifth BRICS Young ...

Internet users in Russia reported widespread service disruptions ... the Kremlin's media watchdog at the helm of censorship in the country, could have caused Tuesday's outage.

dominating the internet search market in Eastern Europe and competing against Google. At times, the technology company has chafed against the Kremlin’s censorship demands but the Russian state ...

He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable ... faces in snuffing out an American-made cornerstone of the Russian internet that for years was seen as practically too big to ban.