Anti-Tesla demonstration highlights safety concerns with self-driving vehicles (statesman.com)

It's strange that this went unnoticed, but on June 9, 2025, RosKomNadzor —- a government agency that regulates internet access —- essentially made the "outside" Internet inaccessible to Russians and turned the Internet into what's been recently called "Cheburnet", a derogatory term that means the Russian only segment of the wider Internet.

Below is a list of popular websites that you can no longer access:

    * slashdot.org
    * arstechnica.com
    * coingecko.com
    * disqus.com (and all the embedded Disqus discussions on the Internet)
    * forums.developer.nvidia.com
    * osnews.com

This list is not exhaustive, we are talking about millions of websites.

In addition to that, you cannot use DNS over HTTPs (DoH) with the most popular web companies, including and not limited to:

    * CloudFlare
    * OpenDNS
    * Google

DNS over TLS (DoT) is still working however it is not enabled by default in most operating systems. As a result, RKN has not yet started blocking it.

In addition to that, the OpenVPN and WireGuard protocols have essentially been disabled for years. What's new is that on June 9, the plain ShadowSocks protocol was disabled as well.

I've spoken with three major ISPs in Russia: Dom.ru (ER-Telecom), RosTelecom (RTK), and Megafon. They all deny any wrongdoing, claiming, "It doesn't depend on us." However, it totally does, as RKN has made them use their DPI equipment.

Some essential reads (in Russian): <https://neolurk.org/wiki/Чебурнет> <https://pikabu.ru/story/ya_uzhe_v_cheburnete_12833310> <https://otvet.mail.ru/question/267177907> <https://www.reddit.com/r/KafkaFPS/comments/1l9i1x0/с_праздничком_товарищи_прихожу_я_сейчас_на/>

Comments (9)

throwaway843 · 20h ago

X-Ray can become your friend, vless, vmess, trojan, etc. It's a pity these VPN-like protocols are largely unknown in the west.

Shadowsocks, including outline, has long been dead.

itvision · 20h ago

Proxying via HTTPS/TLS is working great, but RKN has started shutting down remote IPs/hosts that send "too much data" (whatever that means to them).

DanAtC · 18h ago

As a personal complaint, in the west it's hard to understand what any of those words mean or where to find an authoritative source. I can't read sites like https://xtls.github.io/

mmh0000 · 4h ago

FYI there's a link, in English, right at the top to change the language:

https://xtls.github.io/en/

pabs3 · 15h ago

Does archive.org still work? Perhaps folks could use Save Page Now to access some of the wider internet.

pabs3 · 13h ago

#tor suggested https://github.com/bol-van/zapret

toomuchtodo · 20h ago

Does Tor still work?

itvision · 20h ago

It either doesn't connect at all, or the speed is horrible. Most websites simply don't load unless they send a few kilobytes of text without any dependencies, such as JS, CSS, images, or built-in fonts.

Currently, SSH tunneling (`ssh -L/-D`) is the only reliable way to access the internet.

r721 · 9h ago

Tor works with obfs4 bridges (if you can find an unblocked one).

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html...