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August’s VPN crackdown in Russia ran on data the country’s own apps had already collected on their users

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In early August, Russia experienced one of its most sweeping waves of VPN blocking yet. Leonid Volkov, a senior figure at the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), called the attack “the biggest in history.” Meduza asked representatives of four VPN services — Liberty VPN, Amnezia VPN, Paper VPN, and BlancVPN — how this attack differs from previous ones and whether Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censorship agency, is following any logic in its decisions.

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