{"id":1000282,"date":"2026-04-01T07:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000282"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:17:25","slug":"russia-goes-after-vpns-as-great-crackdown-gathers-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/russia-goes-after-vpns-as-great-crackdown-gathers-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia goes after VPNs as &#8216;great crackdown&#8217; gathers pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, \u200cRussia&#8217;s digital \u2060minister \u2060said. <\/p>\n<p>In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia&#8217;s &#8220;great crackdown&#8221;, the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major messenger services while giving sweeping powers to cut off mass communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, \u200cRussia&#8217;s digital \u2060minister \u2060said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia&#8217;s &#8220;great crackdown&#8221;, the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major messenger services while giving sweeping powers to cut off mass communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}