{"id":45314,"date":"2021-07-01T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45314"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:30:50","slug":"roskomnadzor-warns-of-blocking-six-vpn-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/roskomnadzor-warns-of-blocking-six-vpn-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Roskomnadzor warns of blocking six VPN services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roskomnadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/rkn.gov.ru\/news\/rsoc\/news73720.htm\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b<\/a> \u043e \u043d\u0430\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0448\u0435\u0441\u0442\u044c VPN-\u0441\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0438\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u0438\u0437-\u0437\u0430 \u0438\u0445 \u0438\u0441\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0434\u043b\u044f &#8216;bypassing the restriction on prohibited information&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Blocking could affect Hola! VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN and IPVanish VPN.<\/p>\n<p>Roskomnadzor also asked enterprises and organisations to report use of these services &#8216;to ensure the operation of technological processes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in 2019, Roskomnadzor required owners of ten major VPN services to connect to the state system and restrict access to sites blocked in Russia; most refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, Roskomnadzor head Andrey Lipov <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomnadzor-chief-access-to-non-compliant-vpn-services-will-be-restricted-in-russia\">warned<\/a> that access to VPN services that do not bring activity into compliance with Russian law would be restricted.<\/p>\n<p>Since June 17, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vpn-blocks-in-russia-german-authorities-press-telegram-for-user-data-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">blocked VyprVPN and Opera VPN<\/a> due to &#8216;a threat to circumvent access to illicit content&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roskomnadzor said it intends to block six VPN services for their use in bypassing the restriction on prohibited information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,96,1448],"class_list":["post-45314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-roskomnadzor","tag-vpn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45316,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45314\/revisions\/45316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}