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A few days later, on March 20, Cloudflare subnets were alsotemporarily blocked.
This causes large-scale outages across multiple Russian regions, with many popular websites going dark.
Android and Windows users in Russia could soon be prevented from downloading almost 50 of the most popular VPN apps in an escalation of VPN censorship in the country.
Some VPN services also experienced connectivity issues due to the DNS blocking.
Digital rights experts across the country now fear that’s just the beginning of further blocks.
It isn’t yet clear if Google has already complied with such orders at the time of writing.
Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers.
Around 1.5 million IP addresses were impacted a technical expert for Russian digital rights advocacy group Roskomsvoboda told TechRadar.
We contacted Cloudflare for comment but are still waiting for a response at the time of publication.
