The Digital Development Ministry is urging people to switch to its security certificates to access Russian services. But of course there are pitfalls

The Digital Development Ministry is urging people to switch to its security certificates to access Russian services. But of course there are pitfalls

In the summer of 2026, GlobalSign began massively revoking TLS certificates from Russian organizations. Those certificates were taken away from the Max messenger, major Russian banks, and even the Federal Tax Service. Now the Digital Development Ministry is actively persuading Russians to install domestic certificates manually. Independent experts, however, see a number of dangers in what is happening. What are they? And what kind of certificates are these anyway? Will the authorities now really be able to know even more about citizens? The “Explainers” desk answers.

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The authorities are actively persuading users to install a security certificate from the Digital Development Ministry or switch to Yandex Browser. Why…

In the summer of 2026, GlobalSign began massively revoking TLS certificates from Russian organizations. It was one of the few international certificate authorities that continued issuing certificates to Russian websites after 2022. At the same time, the most…