Reporters Without Borders says almost all independent Russian media sources have been banned, blocked or subjected to censorship since the invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow Times editor Derk Sauer says the newspaper will defy the Russian government’s mandate to close down and will continue to publish news. Russia’s prosecutor general has banned anyone from working ...

Facing an election this weekend and the fallout from Aleksei Navalny’s death and the war in Ukraine, Russia has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by China.

Since then, Russian officials have continuously dripped out new policies and measures to further control the Internet, boosting the state's censorship and surveillance powers.

Traffic from occupied Ukraine subjected to Russia’s censorship, surveillance machine.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, is all but the last man standing up to President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on independent media in Russia.

Several major media organizations said Friday that they would limit activity in Russia, hours after President Vladimir Putin signed a measure into law criminalizing news coverage that accurately ...

Russia Can’t Afford to Block Twitter—Yet Online censorship is bogged down in technical difficulties.

Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of blocking the social media site outright, the country is using previously unseen techniques to ...

MOSCOW — Russia took a step toward government control over the internet on Thursday, as lawmakers approved a bill that freedom of information advocates worry will open the door to sweeping ...

Golubok denounced these demands as “ outright censorship.” The incident is indeed reminiscent of Soviet-era policies – ironically, the very subject of Gessen’s book.

Vladimir Putin has just imposed a new censorship policy on scientists across Russia: the state security services must review all manuscripts prior to submission for publication. Will Russian ...