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Cyber● Elevated5d ago · Oct 29, 2026, 5:36 PM

Russia still hasn’t found an effective way to curb VPNs. Now officials are considering limits on all foreign internet traffic.

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · Eastern Europe

On October 27, Forbes reported that Russia’s Digital Development Ministry is considering routing all foreign internet traffic through TSPU filtering equipment (TSPU is the Russian acronym for “technical means of countering threats”), effectively separating the Russian internet from the global internet at a technical level.

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