Mail.ru News
Lorri Winterhalter
As Western and other countries expand sanctions against Russia, the European Union has recently agreed on a new round of restrictions which include sanctions on Vladimir Kirienko, CEO of VK Company Limited, the parent company of popular online portals mail.ru and vkontakte.ru. This means that those living in Latvia and the EU cannot collaborate with these portals, and payments between this group and Citadele Bank customers will be refused or frozen.
As some people in the Proton Mail community have noticed, at the start of March, some mail servers in Russia started having difficulty communicating with Proton Mail. While people in Russia are still able to access the Proton Mail website and log in to their accounts, Russian email services like mail.ru cannot reliably send messages to Proton Mail. Over the weekend, the blocking campaign escalated dramatically, even though Proton Mail is not on the official Russian block list, and there was no legal procedure or notification about the block.
The block does not prevent Russian citizens from using or accessing Proton Mail, it just makes it difficult for Russian mail servers (like mail.ru) to communicate with Proton Mail. As of now, the blocks are still in place, but we have implemented some technical measures to largely reduce the impact of the blocks, so services in Russia are operational at this time. If the situation changes, we will take additional measures as necessary to ensure the proper functioning of Proton Mail in Russia.
But the filtering system failed. Thousands of sites were blocked by mistake. Russians found it easy to access banned websites using simple circumvention tools such as Tor or a virtual private network (VPN). Although Roskomnadzor cut off access to thousands of websites, it stopped short of banning popular media. VKontakte and Facebook became the public space Russians used to discuss politics and share news.
After invading Ukraine, the Kremlin blocked Twitter and Facebook traffic. 45 A Russian prosecutor branded Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram) as an extremist organization and the court affirmed the decision. By all indications, the Kremlin will keep upping the pressure on foreign platforms and websites until they are chased out of Russia. As of today, YouTube remains the only major Silicon Valley network still available in Russia. Russians otherwise share uncensored news and gossip about the war and political developments on Telegram. Why Putin allows Telegram to continue functioning remains a mystery. Does he fear a public backlash to close these popular sites? Or does he want to keep a façade of free flows of information?
With their online surveillance and censorship apparatus struggling, Russian authorities are turning to traditional means of suppressing information. On March 4, the Duma adopted a new law that makes it a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison to spread fake news about military operations, to discredit the armed forces, or to support sanctions against Russia. 48 In the three days after the law was imposed, police detained 60 people. 49 The majority were journalists. Terrified, almost all independent Russian journalists have stopped covering the war in Ukraine.
Western policy should focus on improving export controls on technologies that could strengthen this censorship and surveillance. Deep Packet Inspection technology should not be sold to Russia. Global platforms led by Google, Facebook, and Twitter should remain available for Russians to share uncensored news and political developments. Western powers should make it a priority to keep global platforms available in Russia.
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Daily Mail Online and other popular UK news websites are understood to be providing data collection and tracking opportunities to RuTarget, whose controlling owner has been identified as Sberbank, a sanctioned Russian bank which is majority owned by the Russian government.
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