Russia revives forced labour amid Ukraine war labour crisis. Convicts fill workforce gaps in harsh regions like Norilsk. Activist Yekaterin...

Russia’s telecom watchdog will partially restrict calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, Interfax reported. Following a new law by President Putin...

Russian lawmakers are preparing to ban WhatsApp, citing national security risks and aiming for digital sovereignty amidst ongoing tensions ...

The rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), will be debated in the European Parliament Tuesday, as dozens of lawmakers pile pressur...

Russian judge has been slapped sanctions by President Joe Biden-headed US government.

Concerns have mounted in recent months about a spate of disinformation related to parliamentary elections in Slovakia on Sept. 30 and Polan...

Apple paused all product sales in Russia shortly after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, and limited i...

Although WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms Inc was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app - wh...

Messenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of 4 million roubles (51,500) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, ...

Over the last year, Moscow has levied dozens of fines against Western tech companies to ramp up control over what Russian internet users se...

Early in the war, Gershkovich had gone to Belarus, witnessing Russian military ambulances backing up at a hospital 30 miles (50 km) from th...

Russia has repeatedly threatened to fine sites - including Google, that violate harsh new laws criminalising the spreading of "false inform...

Putin has also blocked access to both Western media and independent news sites in the country, and a new law criminalises spreading informa...

TikTok and Netflix are suspending their services in the country. Facebook has been blocked. Twitter has been partially blocked and YouTube’...

The censorship law builds on the Kremlin’s insistence that characterizations of its attacks on Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion” rather than...

Russian state communications regulator Roskomnadzor said it had written to Google and demanded that the restrictions be lifted. It said Rus...

YouTube said RT's German branch had received a "strike" for uploading material that violated YouTube's standards on Covid-19 misinformation...