Roskomnadzor reportedly told 10 popular VPN providers in March that it
would block them from Russia unless they started to follow local
regulations. That would require the services to prevent their users from
accessing the Russian government's list of banned websites, effectively
removing one of the easiest ways to bypass the country's internet
censorship. Only one of the providers--Kaspersky Secure
Connection--agreed to the regulator's demands.
The other providers contacted by Roskomnadzor include popular services
like OpenVPN, NordVPN, four others with VPN in their names, IPVanish,
TorGuard and Hide My Ass. Most were explicit in their refusal to comply
with the regulator's demands, assuring their users that they weren't
interested in perpetuating the Russian government's censorship. TorGuard
wiped its servers in Moscow and St. Petersburg to reassure its users.
We don't yet know how successful Roskomnadzor will be in blocking access
to these services. Most aren't located in Russia, which limits its
ability to force the companies to do anything. But that doesn't mean it
won't try, as it proved in April 2018, when it banned millions of IP
addresses to stop banned services from using "domain fronting" to evade
its censors, (which helped lead Google and Amazon to ban domain fronting
on their platforms).
Russia has made it clear that it doesn't plan to ease the pressure on
tech companies that limit its ability to control what its citizens
access online. It asked Apple to block Telegram from the App Store in
June 2018, for example, and recently pressured Facebook to store
information on Russian users inside the country. Regulators were also
believed to be working with Google to remove links to banned websites
and services from its search results.
Soon Kaspersky Secure Connection may be the only major VPN service
Russians can legally use. That's probably not a good look for the
Moscow-headquartered cybersecurity firm, which moved from Russia to
Switzerland to ease international concerns about its connections to the
Kremlin. Nine of its counterparts refused to compromise their commitment
to fighting censorship. What does Kaspersky being the outlier imply
about the vendor and how it views its customers?When comes to the issue
of online privacy and security, we suggest to use a VPN, and our
recommendation is RitaVPN.Qwer432
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