Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peksov has admitted there is "unprecedented" military censorship of the media in Russia, but defended it as necessary in the current circumstances, as Moscow's invasion of ...

The Russian parliament’s upper house has quickly approved a bill that punishes online searches for information officially ...

The looming WhatsApp ban comes as the Kremlin is developing its own messaging app with government services integrated. From ...

Since invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has made it increasingly challenging for Russians to access foreign websites, social ...

No, Russia's new rules around VPN usage don't contain a complete ban, meaning that using a VPN is still legal in Russia for ...

Vladimir Putin has just imposed a new censorship policy on scientists across Russia: the state security services must review all manuscripts prior to submission for publication. Will Russian ...

Online censorship is bogged down in technical difficulties. On March 16, Russia’s internet and media regulator, Roskomnadzor, threatened to block access to Twitter from within Russia in 30 days ...

Unlike China, however, censorship on the Russian internet is a relatively recent phenomenon, says Eva Galpern, a global policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. ... tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, ...

According to the diplomat, the US is engaging in a "witch hunt" when ordinary users, experts and journalists who disagree with Washington’s policy are blasted as "Russian bots and trolls" ...

Russia wants Twitter to block or censor some “extremist” accounts, a top regulator said on Monday. The head of the country’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, claimed to ask for 12 ...

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