Silicon Valley is pulling the plug. The Kremlin is locking the doors. Inside the race to cut Russia off from the global internet.

Russian authorities have escalated their internet censorship efforts over the past month, Human Rights Watch said today, a day marked by free speech defenders as World Day Against Cyber Censorship.

“Vladimir Putin has not achieved his goals,” said a defiant Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a televised address marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The February 2022 ...

A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, ...

Lisboa, 16 fev 2026 (Lusa) – A rede social X sofreu hoje uma segunda interrupção em vários países, incluindo Portugal e os Estados Unidos, por motivos ainda desconhecidos. Após uma primeira falha ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian authorities attempted to fully block the Meta-owned WhatsApp messaging app as part of a broader strategy to tighten ...

(CNN) — Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to use its state-backed Max app. The news comes days after it emerged ...

(CNN) — Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...