Digital Iron Curtain Expands as Russia Adopts China’s Surveillance Model (opens in new tab)

The Russian police has launched a mass-campaign of pulling people over and checking their phones to see if they have “illegal VPNs” installed pic.twitter.com/m4oBBvE2dO — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 6, 2026 Russia has now begun implementing what can only be described as a street-level surveillance hunt, with police conducting mass traffic stops not for crime […]