[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-russia-plans-state-run-vpn-to-offset-its-own-vpn-ban":10,"sections":54},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":41,"persona_id":42,"persona_name":42,"section":43,"tags":44,"sources":49,"feedback":53,"feedback_at":42,"cost_usd":53,"total_tokens":53},549,"russia-plans-state-run-vpn-to-offset-its-own-vpn-ban","Russia's Answer to Its VPN Crackdown Is a State-Run VPN","Roskomnadzor wants to fix the developer access problem it created by proposing a VPN it fully controls - which rather misses the point of a VPN.","Russia's internet regulator broke developer access to critical tools by cracking down on VPNs. Its proposed fix is a VPN it controls.\n\nRoskomnadzor, the agency that oversees Russia's internet infrastructure, has proposed building a state-owned VPN to restore access to developer resources that became collateral damage in its own campaign against third-party VPN services. The original crackdown was aimed at stopping Russians from bypassing censorship - and it worked on that front. But it also severed access to code repositories, package registries, and other infrastructure that the country's software developers depend on daily. The state-run VPN would give developers a sanctioned route back to those resources.\n\nThe problem is structural: a VPN you don't control is not a privacy tool, it's a monitored pipe. Russia's IT community has raised exactly this concern - routing developer traffic through government infrastructure hands authorities a complete log of who is accessing what, when, and from where. That's not a fix for the collateral damage. It's a formalization of surveillance dressed up as a technical remedy.\n\nThe playbook is familiar. Block the foreign option, create pressure, then offer a controlled alternative that happens to be auditable by the state. China's domestic tech ecosystem grew partly from the same logic. The difference is China built its substitutes first. 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