Lawmakers in Russia’s lower house of parliament are pressing state regulators for clarity after authorities suggested that ...

Vladimir Putin has taken inspiration from China by handing the Kremlin total control over the internet. Under new laws, ...

Russia hits Google with a 22.8 million rubles (roughly $298,000) fine for allegedly promoting VPN services on its Play Store platform.

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has ordered Google LLC to pay 22.8 mln rubles ($298,600) for promoting VPN services via Google Play, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom. "The court found ...

On February 24, 2026, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officially opened a criminal investigation into Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of the ...

Pavel Durov, fundador de la aplicación de mensajería Telegram, dijo el martes que el gobierno ruso había abierto una ...

Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, said he is facing a Russian criminal investigation on charges of “aiding terrorism.” Speaking on Tuesday, Durov accused Moscow ...

The Telegram messenger systematically creates an infrastructure through which Internet penetration services illegally distribute personal data of Russians. This was announced on February 20 by the ...

Russian authorities are denying media reports of plans to fully block Telegram from 1 April, noting that no decisions have been made on the matter yet. For many Russians, this sounds like an indirect ...

Russian web censor could use new $29m AI tools to block exchanges, say experts. Moscow is concerned about “unfriendly” crypto exchanges, lawyer explains. Kremlin insists Russian citizens’ data cannot ...

(CNN) — Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...

Telegram, an important platform for public and private communications in Russia, will face further restrictions from authorities because it has failed to correct previous violations, the state ...