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Roskomnadzor bans use of six additional 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…

Scope

Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
software provider: other software
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
other regulatory body

Complete timeline of this policy change

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2021-06-17
adopted

On 17 June 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that restrictions on the…

2021-09-02
adopted

On 2 September 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that it had banned t…

2021-12-02
adopted

On 2 December 2021, Roskomnadzor, the Russian mass media regulator, announced that it had banned th…