President Vladimir Putin sign into law a new measure giving Russia's main domestic intelligence agency new power to shut down the Internet inside the country.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities in Russia's Kamchatka Krai announced on Jan. 7 that they had restricted mobile internet access, citing the threat of ...

Russia has argued that both WhatsApp and Telegram have refused to store Russian users' data in the country as required by law ...

Russia's government is tightening its internet control, with widespread outages and restrictions already defining 2025 for its citizens. These pervasive measures are impacting daily life, from public ...

Russia’s leadership is racing to build a kind of digital drawbridge, one that can be yanked up on command to separate the country’s online life from the rest of the world. Starting in 2026, regulators ...

October 30, 2025: This was a record-breaking year for Ukrainian attacks on the Russian internet. There were nearly 1,500 shutdowns in July alone. Unlike earlier internet attacks, the recent Ukrainian ...

Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp as it tightens control of online communication and pushes people toward a ...

A cyberattack carried out by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) caused over 66 million rubles (approximately $800,000) in damages to Orion Telecom, one of the largest internet providers in Siberia, ...

RUSSIA – Russian authorities have imposed restrictions on FaceTime as part of their ongoing efforts to tighten control over the internet. The state internet regulator accused the service of being used ...

On Wednesday, as many as 100 million Russians abruptly had their access to WhatsApp cut off, according to the Financial Times. Meanwhile, an app called Max that is quite a bit like WhatsApp—though ...