Internet outages disrupt daily life in Russia, fueling fears of a digital crackdown

Residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities are finding that their smartphones have been dumbed down amid an ...

Russia Puts First Internet Satellites Into Orbit as SpaceX Rival

Russia’s Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a ...

Russia continues to restrict mobile internet, introduces website "whitelists"

Authorities in Russia are limiting mobile internet access and testing “whitelists” of approved websites that remain available ...

Mobile internet blackouts sweep Moscow, leaving residents feeling 'powerless'

Moscow has been hit by a major mobile internet blackout as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as ...

The great Russian disconnect

Silicon Valley is pulling the plug. The Kremlin is locking the doors. Inside the race to cut Russia off from the global ...

'Great crackdown': Russia tightens the screws on the internet

Office workers toiling with blocked internet. Teenagers continually forced to switch VPNs. Taxi drivers struggling to find ...
Yahoo

Russia expands internet blackouts under pretense of drone threats, but real goal appears to be information control

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities in Russia's Kamchatka Krai announced on Jan. 7 that they had restricted mobile internet access, citing the threat of ...
Human Rights Watch

Russia: Digital Iron Curtain Falls on Internet Freedom Protection Day

(Berlin, March 12, 2026) – Russian authorities have escalated their internet censorship efforts over the past month, Human Rights Watch said today, a day marked by free speech defenders as World Day ...