Russian telecom operators at SPIEF-2026 proposed a compromise in the fight against VPNs. According to RBC, Beeline and T2 are discussing with regulators an initiative to legalize access to foreign services that do not violate Russian legislation but have independently restricted operations in the country — primarily neural networks and entertainment platforms. Operators are ready to integrate their own VPN service directly into the tariff so that subscribers do not need to install third-party applications.
The root of the problem lies in Roskomnadzor's transition from blocking IP addresses of public VPNs to blocking the protocols they operate on. Since there is no technical way to reliably distinguish legal VPN traffic from ordinary encrypted traffic, corporate networks, developers, and legitimate services are affected.
In late April, the Association of Software Product Developers "Otechestvenny Soft" warned the authorities that the DPI systems used for throttling create false positives: the largest Linux repository, Debian, was blocked for several hours, and before that, the Rust language repository.
The idea of creating a "whitelist" of such services, according to RBC, has found support from several agencies, and technical implementation is possible in the near future.
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