Russia: Roskomnadzor actions against VPN services

On 2 December 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that it had banned the use of a further six VPN services. The affected VPN services are Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, and PrivateTunnel. Earlier…

On 2 September 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that it had banned the use of six VPN services that can be used to access content classed as illegal within the Russian Federation. The affected VPN services are Hola! VP…

On 17 June 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that restrictions on the VPN services VyprVPN and Opera VPN had been introduced to prevent access to restricted illegal internet content. 'White lists' have been created to r…