The American company Cloudflare (which provides cloud technology services) has stated that Russians are being deprived of access to the "open Internet." The problems began on June 9, 2025.
As the restriction is applied by local providers, these actions are outside of Cloudflare’s control, and the company is not currently able to lawfully restore reliable, performant access to its products and protected websites for Russian users.
The company reports that the restrictions imposed by providers allow only the first 16 KB of a foreign web resource to be loaded, which makes navigating most sites virtually impossible.
Cloudflare has not received any official requests or communications from Russian government entities regarding the reasons for these actions. Unfortunately, these actions are consistent with Russia’s long-standing efforts to isolate the internet within its borders and reduce dependence on Western technologies by replacing them with domestic alternatives.
The restrictions affect all connection methods and protocols, including HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 over TCP and TLS, as well as HTTP/3 over QUIC.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that Russians will have to get used to internet outages due to drones.
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