Roskomnadzor launched a large-scale attack on top VPN services in Russia

From the very morning, users of popular VPN services in Russia began to notice failures in the operation of such programs as

Proton VPN, Nord VPN and some others.The regulator later confirmed that this situation was not accidental. In its statement, Roskomnadzor said that it is acting within the framework of the Law on Communications, which interprets means of bypassing blocking of prohibited content as a threat, and therefore relevant specialists have begun to take measures to limit access to them. This practice began last year – then dozens of VPN services, including those built into the Opera browser, were subject to restrictions, after which the developer was forced to disable this functionality in Russia.

Proton VPN management commented on thissituation. According to him, they will not be able to resist the actions of telecom operators in Russia, although attempts to bypass the blocking are being made, and some servers continue to work. Among other things, the other day Roskomnadzor demanded that Google remove Tor Browser from the app store, which, obviously, is a link in the same chain of events to ensure the sovereign Russian Internet. It should be noted that in addition to access to information prohibited in Russia, VPN services provided users with access to applications that were not banned, but at one point or another decided to leave the Russian market. These include, in particular, Spotify. From this day on, it seems that access to all this will be as difficult as possible.

© Artur Luchkin.

According to Roskomnadzor