Just Ordinary Office Work.” How Internet Censorship Works in Russia

“Just Ordinary Office Work.” How Internet Censorship Works in Russia

Restrictions on the Russian internet have reached unprecedented levels over the years of the war. Even in cities farthest from the front, residents go for weeks without mobile service, the largest social networks and dozens of media outlets are blocked, and a VPN has become an almost mandatory app on any device.

More and more new bans are being lobbied for by the security services, but the censorship machine is maintained day to day by ordinary officials and administrators, non-public people with biographies, salaries, and lifestyles typical of Moscow civil servants.

“Verstka” looked into who exactly turns the political demands of the security services into blocking orders, how much these people earn, and how they live.

Read about who is disconnecting Russians from the internet on the “Verstka” website (with VPN):

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