Russian Government Escalates War on VPNs and Censorship Circumvention Tools
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GreatFire’s App Censorship Project Reveals Massive Russian Crackdown and Google’s Response
Today, GreatFire’s App Censorship Project publishes its latest investigation into the availability of VPN apps in Google’s Russian Play Store and assesses Google’s compliance with recent Russian government censorship demands. This investigation follows an unprecedented wave of takedown requests from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censorship body, targeting VPN (Virtual Private Network) apps and other censorship circumvention tools since mid-March 2025.
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2025-04-08
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