{"id":10851,"date":"2019-03-28T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:14:33","slug":"russias-roskomnadzor-orders-vpns-to-censor-banned-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russias-roskomnadzor-orders-vpns-to-censor-banned-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Roskomnadzor orders VPNs to censor &#8220;banned&#8221; sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roskomnadzor, Russia\u2019s government censorship agency, has issued formal notices to ten non-Russian VPN providers demanding that they \u201chook up\u201d to the Roskomnadzor\u2019s list of banned sites and start complying with said blocks within 30 business days. Vadim Ampelonsky, the Roskamnadzor\u2019s press secretary, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/russia\/656119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interfax<\/a> that if the targeted VPN companies do not comply, they might see access to their services limited by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>This threat is not new \u2013 but may have more teeth this time around. Since 2017, the Roskomnadzor has threatened that they might add VPNs to their blocklist if they failed to comply to the censorship requests. Now that these formal censorship requests (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.docdroid.net\/p1YUjYR\/torguard-roscomnadzor-pdf\">example<\/a>) from the Roskomnadzor have been sent out, we\u2019ll finally be able to see how this will be implemented.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia continues to double down on internet censorship<\/h2>\n<p>In 2016, the controversial Yaroyava laws \u2013 which Edward Snowden referred to as Russia\u2019s Big Brother Laws\u201d were passed. These mandated that Russian datacenters log all internet traffic and store that data. Since then, internet censorship in Russia has only gotten worse \u2013 prompting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/thousands-march-moscow-russia-support-internet-freedom-protest-vpn-ban\/\">protests in Moscow<\/a>. Just this past month, Putin signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-doubles-down-on-censorship-with-new-fake-news-and-internet-insults-law\/\">additional laws targeting fake news and disparagement<\/a> of government symbols.<\/p>\n<h2>How will the Roskamadzor enact this censorship?<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s still unclear what will happen to VPN providers that do not comply with Russia\u2019s censorship demands. In 2016, Private Internet Access lead VPN providers by removing their servers from Russia while still allowing Russian users to connect to their non Russian servers. In 2017, the Roskamadzor first threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-threatens-ban-vpns-proxies-dont-censor-whatever-government-wants\/\">ban VPNs and proxies that don\u2019t censor whatever the government wants<\/a>.\u00a0Back in <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/russia-vpn-blocking-law-failing-no-provider-told-to-block-any-site-180224\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018<\/a>, Karen Ghazaryan, an analyst from the Russian Electronic Communications Association (RAEC), affirmed to the RBC that the Rozkomnadzor might not even have the technical and legal ability to ban VPN<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRoskomnadzor does not have leverage over most VPN services, and they can not block them for failing to comply with the law, because Roskomnadzor does not have ready technical solutions for this, and the law does not yet have relevant by-laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, with this set of notices, the Russian government seems to have clarified that they\u2019d get the legal authority to block non compliant VPN providers using paragraph 5 of Article 15.8 of the Federal Law No. 149-FZ of 27.07.2006 \u201cOn Information, Information Technology and on Protection of Information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Vedomosti has reported since 2018 that some Russia based VPN providers have acquiesced and started participating in the Roskomnadzor\u2019s blocklist, the specifics of when Russia will try to crack down on external VPN providers in Russia is only now coming to light. At the end of the day, while these laws can clearly be used to add any website to the censored-by-Roskamnadzor blocklist, they still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russia-vpn-ban-doesnt-forbid-personal-business-use-vpns\/\"><em>do not<\/em> forbid personal VPN use<\/a> by Russian netizens.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Private Internet Access has not operated servers in Russia since 2016. in anticipation of such shenanigans. If the Roskomnadzor asks Private Internet Access to block sites, we will not comply.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roskomnadzor, Russia\u2019s government censorship agency, has issued formal notices to ten non-Russian VPN providers demanding that they \u201chook up\u201d to the Roskomnadzor\u2019s list of banned sites and start complying with said blocks within 30 business days. Vadim Ampelonsky, the Roskamnadzor\u2019s press secretary, told Interfax that if the targeted VPN companies do not comply, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/russias-roskomnadzor-orders-vpns-to-censor-banned-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russia&#8217;s Roskomnadzor orders VPNs to censor &#8220;banned&#8221; sites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,130,1937],"tags":[1419,185,259,260],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-governments","category-vpn","tag-blocked-sites","tag-censorship-2","tag-roskomnadzor","tag-russia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia&#039;s Roskomnadzor orders VPNs to censor &quot;banned&quot; 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