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Russia imposes 24-hour mobile internet blackout for travelers returning home
12 Nov 2025 19:36 GMT
… blackout for people entering Russia with foreign SIM cards … commercial sites including Yandex, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and online marketplaces … the situation; only a Russian soldier can. The … said.
Since May, Russian regions have repeatedly shut down …
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Russia Starts Shutting Down Mobile Internet Until the End of the War – Ulyanovsk Is the First
12 Nov 2025 09:03 GMT
… restrictions apply across all of Russia, and regional authorities have no … . The list includes Gosuslugi, Yandex, VKontakte, Ozon, Wildberries, and others.
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Mobile web shut off in one Russian region until end of war
11 Nov 2025 16:57 GMT
… (Functions)", Yandex services, VKontakte, the Mir payment system, … drones strike 77,000 Russian targets in October – CinC … .
In August, the Russian government confirmed that the … ” of internet functioning in Russia, Federal Service for Supervision …
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Moscow Cuts the Signal: First Russian Region Faces Indefinite Mobile Internet Shutdown
11 Nov 2025 15:00 GMT
… ,” the state-aligned Russian regional newspaper “Ulyanovskaya … ), “Yandex” (Russia’s main search engine), “VKontakte” (a popular … indefinite. Last week, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail … Under the new framework, Russia’s communications regulator, “Roskomnadzor …
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Russian regions recruit volunteers to protect critical facilities
11 Nov 2025 00:06 GMT
… November 10. /TASS/. Russian regions have begun recruiting volunteers … Lyubimsky municipal districts say on VKontakte.
"Due to the … in the regions of the Russian Federation from the increasingly … of Defense of the Russian Federation has opened a …
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Thousands of Russians have applied for asylum in the U.S. since 2022. Trump’s ICE raids could land many of them in Putin’s prisons.
10 Nov 2025 19:29 GMT
… posts on Facebook and VKontakte, Roskomnadzor had repeatedly sent … of support from Memorial, [Russian opposition politician Ilya] Yashin, … not ordinary citizens.
For Russians whose asylum requests and … . Otherwise, deportation to Russia is almost guaranteed.
In …
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Durov Unshackled: Telegram Founder’s Travel Ban Lifted Amid Ongoing French Probe
13 Nov 2025 18:29 GMT
… Mark Zuckerberg of Russia,” founded VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network, before launching … Telegram in 2013. Exiled from Russia … resisting regulatory pressures. In Russia, Durov’s past …
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Telegram is worth Ksh 3.8 trillion and has only 30 employees all working from home, no office, no HR
11 Nov 2025 08:09 GMT
… his previous work on the Russian social network VKontakte, built Telegram on principles of …
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Ulyanovsk Region Imposes First Permanent Mobile Internet Blackout
11 Nov 2025 13:14 GMT
… services provider Gosuslugi, Russian tech platform Yandex, social networks Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, online … Regional authorities said they expect Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development … .
Regular internet outages across Russia began in early May amid …
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France has lifted the travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov
13 Nov 2025 21:28 GMT
… that the investigation into the Russia-born developer’s messaging platform … Telegram in 2013 after leaving Russia’s VKontakte, and has built the …