Artem Sheikin, Deputy Chairman of the Digital Economy Development Council of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, sent a call to the head of Roskomnadzor, Andrey Lipov, asking him to formally check the compliance of VPN services with Russian legislation. Open the Android app store RuStore and block these services if necessary. This has been reported DEA News.
The Senator explained that RuStore is proposing to install “more than 100 VPN services” that can be freely used on smartphones, while this store is “a product pre-installed on devices sold in Russia” in accordance with the Cabinet decree. ”
According to him, the app store contains many VPN services that violate Russian law, so they need to be “immediately blocked and removed”, because thanks to them, it is possible to bypass the portals blocked by Roskomnadzor and violate the established bans for profit. access to prohibited content.
Russian Internet users before that said About issues with OpenVPN, WireGuard, and Terona VPN services.
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