(MENAFN- UkrinForm) According to Ukrinform, this was reported on the website of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

It is noted that in several regions, including Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Vladimir, and Murmansk, the problems have reached a large scale. Similar complaints are coming from the Volga region, the Urals, and Siberia. The format of restrictions often corresponds to the model described in the so-called“sovereign Runet” law, under which users have access only to a limited list of websites.

In parallel, the state is tightening control over infrastructure. Roskomnadzor has been granted the authority to manage the national segment of the network centrally, and amendments to the Law“On Communications” require operators to cease providing services upon request from security agencies.

According to intelligence, Russia has introduced additional restrictions on SIM cards: they may be deactivated for 24 hours when crossing the border.

Privacy risks are increasing. Smart devices accumulate data that reaches not only law enforcement agencies. Government bodies are advising citizens to avoid discussing private matters near voice assistants, while lawmakers are proposing fines for logging in via foreign messaging apps.

Intelligence notes that the deterioration in communication quality already has practical consequences: families of children with diabetes report being unable to monitor their glucose levels remotely. In certain districts of the Krasnoyarsk region, the prosecutor's office has even demanded that payphones, the only available communication channel, be kept operational.

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Experts predict that in the coming years, Russia may find itself almost entirely cut off from the global network, turning the digital sphere into another dimension of its growing separation from the world.

As reported by Ukrinform, mobile internet access has been banned in Russia's Ulyanovsk region until the end of the war against Ukraine.

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