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Russian legislation in 2025 has sharply expanded state control over online speech and platforms, introducing criminal and administrative penalties tied to broadly defined “extremist” searches, mandato...
Laws that govern whether courts can force VPN providers to hand over user data vary by country and rest on three legal levers: whether VPNs are legal at all, whether providers are required to log or r...
Russia’s “sovereign internet” framework forces social media companies to operate inside a legal and technical system designed to grant the state centralized control over traffic, content removal, user...
Russian authorities have blocked access to the U.S.-owned gaming platform Roblox; Roskomnadzor cited “extremist” materials, child safety risks and alleged “LGBT propaganda” as reasons, and users in Ru...