Russian officials have spent years laying the groundwork for a “managed” Internet that authorities could control and surveil.

This week, Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens ...

It creates real problems for tens of millions of people,” stated liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin outside the State Duma ...

If WhatsApp is banned or and/or blocked in Russia, using a VPN will be the only way of accessing it. The stakes for ...

Russian lawmakers have approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” the latest ...

So far in 2025, 24 internet restrictions have been recorded in 10 countries/territories. The first six months of 2024 saw 20 ...

“The European Union has wielded its Digital Services Act (DSA) to restrict the speech not just of Europeans but especially of Americans and other English-speakers,” John Rosenthal, an analyst of ...

It has taken six months and the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians but now, at last, Donald Trump may have grasped the truth ...

Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have noted that the Kremlin continues to tighten censorship in order to assert control over internet resources. Source: ISW Quote from ISW: "The ...

Russia, China, and North Korea have faced extensive scrutiny for targeting critics on U.S. soil. It’s time India faced ...

Reporters Without Borders says almost all independent Russian media sources have been banned, blocked or subjected to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday pressed allies to hit Russia with “biting sanctions” after Moscow launched a record drone attack overnight targeting 10 regions in his war ...