Russia Will Block VPN Services in March, Says Safe Internet League Chief Mizulina.

Downloads of VPNs, which help users access blocked websites, surged in Russia after authorities started blocking Western social media platforms and scores of Russian independent news outlets amid the invasion of Ukraine. 

At a meeting with Russian schoolchildren in Yekaterinburg, Mizulina admitted that it will not be possible to block all VPNs.

Mizulina is head of the "Safe Internet League" in Russia, avid supporter of war. In her speech on May 26, 2022 to the International News Agency “Russia Today”, she called the citizens who left Russia and disagree with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “crowing roosters”, and their departure from the country was a cleansing of unwanted citizens. Another threat was made against Google and Wikipedia: “First, we will clean Ukraine from the Nazis and Bandera, and then we will get to Google and Wikipedia,” Mizulina said.

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