This week, Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens ...

Communications regulator Roskomnadzor cited recent restrictions on Russian media outlets in its announcement, accusing Facebook of "discrimination." Facebook and other platforms blocked RT ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to enforce new restrictions that will outlaw apps and software from 'unfriendly ...

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in Russia, but "there’s a 99-percent chance" authorities will kill it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin intensified a crackdown on media outlets blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.

If WhatsApp is banned or and/or blocked in Russia, using a VPN will be the only way of accessing it. The stakes for ...

Russia‘s media regulator announced that it was blocking access to the Facebook network in the country, claiming parent company Meta’s restrictions on Kremlin-affiliated media accounts violated ...

Russia claimed that it would implement the measures, which were not specified, after Facebook put its own restrictions on four Russian state-linked media outlets, the television network Zvezda ...

The Russian government banned 81 European media organizations Tuesday, ... Russia bans 81 media organizations in response to EU restrictions by Nick Robertson - 06/25/24 5:32 PM ET.

While the banning of Russian independent media underscores one shift, in which Moscow no longer seeks approval from the West, the closure of these Western organizations points to another, in which ...

Russia has posted a draft instruction on how media who have been registered as "foreign agents" must identify that fact in published or broadcast materials.