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 ...

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

People in Russia are set to face new fines for "searching for or accessing knowingly extremist materials," including through ...

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 ...

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’s Censorship Illustrates Danger of Allowing Government to Define 'Fake News' or 'Disinformation' ... as Elon Musk recently tweeted about his own policies on Starlink, ...

Increasing compliance by foreign tech companies with Russian authorities’ demands is especially concerning in the context of near-full compliance by the Russia based tech companies with the repressive ...

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 ...

Moscow Times editor Derk Sauer says the newspaper will defy the Russian government’s mandate to close down and will continue to publish news. Russia’s prosecutor general has banned anyone from working ...

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" ...

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