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Internet August 26, 2017

Russian Prosecutor General promised to ban anonymous messaging

Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika spoke about the draft law on the prohibition of anonymous use of instant messengers. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Internet, Telecommunications August 3, 2017

Putin banned using VPN and Tor in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the use of technologies that might be used to access websites that are blocked in the country.

Internet June 28, 2017

Russia might block Telegram messenger

Head of Roskomnadzor (Russian controlling service over telecommunications – RRT) Alexander Zharov said that the popular Telegram messenger can be blocked in Russia within a few days if the service founder Pavel Durov refuses to provide registration data.

France, Internet, Ukraine June 28, 2017

Russia blocked access to materials of Emmanuel Macron and Petro Poroshenko meeting

Negotiations of the presidents took place on June 26th at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

Internet June 27, 2017

Russian providers stopped blocking Google.ru

Soon after some Russian internet providers started blocking google.ru, the decision was cancelled, and the domain was removed from the list of domains that providers are supposed to block.

Internet June 23, 2017

Russian internet providers started blocking Google

Roskomnadzor (Russian controlling service over telecommunications – RRT) ordered Russian providers to block the Russian domain of the Google search engine (google.ru).

Internet June 8, 2017

Draft bill on banning VPN and Tor was introduced in Russian parliament

A bill on banning the use of VPN services and anonymizers was introduced for consideration of deputies of the State Duma (lower chamber of Russian parliament – RRT), and published on its website.

Internet, Ukraine May 31, 2017

Yandex transferred personal data of Ukrainians to Russian secret services

According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the management of Yandex transferred personal data of Ukrainian citizens to Russian secret services.

High Tech, Internet, Sanctions, Ukraine May 24, 2017

Yandex will be losing $120 million annually because of Ukrainian sanctions

Analyst of Promsvyazbank Ilya Frolov told Forex in a interview that Russian company Yandex will be losing up to 6.9 billion rubles (approx. $120 million – RRT) annually due to the sanctions introduced by Ukraine.

Uncategorized May 20, 2017

NATO considers blocking of Russian sites by Ukraine a matter of national security

NATO believes that blocking Russian internet resources in Ukraine is a matter of security, not freedom of speech.

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