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Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications regulator, has banned Google News and blocked access to the news.google.com domain for providing access to “unreliable information” on the ongoing war in Ukraine. “Based on a request from the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the Internet service News.Google in the country,” the Russian Internet regulator told reporters. […]

People worldwide have sent emails and text messages straight to Russian citizens via 1920.in, a cyber tool to workaround Russia’s internet blockade (1). Polish programmers created the website after acquiring 20 million phone numbers and nearly 140 million emails from Russian individuals and businesses. The site generates numbers and addresses at random from those records. It […]

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Here are the top trending news from the world of technology 1) Instagram will soon become inaccessible in Russia   Russia is all set to clamp down on photo sharing platform Instagram, according to the Russian regulator Roskomnadzor. The latest development is in response to Meta temporarily changing its content policy to allow users to [...]

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Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content. This includes foreign and local media outlets that refuse to regurgitate state propaganda.

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