{"id":54083,"date":"2021-12-03T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54083"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:27:40","slug":"russia-begins-blocking-tor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-begins-blocking-tor\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Begins Blocking Tor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users and experts have reported blocking access to the Tor network within Russia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">Major providers and mobile operators have begun blocking Tor in Russia.<br \/>All or almost all IP addresses of known nodes are unavailable, including some bridges.<br \/>The domain of the Microsoft Azure CDN network is also unavailable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0GmNhSKZ7p\">https:\/\/t.co\/0GmNhSKZ7p<\/a>, expect problems with websites.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8W8vg8gDu8\">https:\/\/t.co\/8W8vg8gDu8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ValdikSS (@ValdikSS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValdikSS\/status\/1466724418667831299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to the OONI Explorer service, problems with Tor operation in Russia began on December 2.<\/p>\n<p>A technical expert from the public organization RosKomSvoboda, Vadim Misbakh-Solovyev, said that some providers or TSPU equipment in Moscow block access to the Tor servers configured as &#8220;default&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFor now, using bridges (servers set up by users) helps. But their list is just as public, so providers will have no trouble after some time to start tracking the bridges list and blocking them,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GlobalCheck project also reports that the blocking occurs via TSPU equipment.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?15\" data-telegram-post=\"globalcheck\/34\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Main Radio Frequency Center, a Roskomnadzor subordinate, announced plans to restrict mesh networks, IoT networks and anonymous protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users and experts have reported blocking access to the Tor network in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54084,"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":[1412,27,49],"class_list":["post-54083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-russia","tag-tor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54083","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=54083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54085,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54083\/revisions\/54085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}