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Amnezia VPN restores premium service in Russia following devastating state-sponsored cyberattack

Amnezia VPN has restored its Premium service in Russia
Amnezia Free is expected return in the coming weeks
Roskomnadzor blocked over 90% of its local servers between June 1 and 15

Russian privacy provider Amnezia VPN has successfully restored its Premium service for users in the country, after suffering an unprecedented state-backed infrastructure strike.

Between June 1 and June 15, millions of Amnezia users in Russia lost their connection after the state censor, Roskomnadzor (RKN), launched a multi-pronged offensive that blocked over 90% of the provider's local servers.

The strike represents a dramatic escalation in Moscow's digital crackdown, deploying automated network fingerprinting and targeted cyberattacks to actively hunt down VPN infrastructure.

While the Premium tier is now back online with a newly updated, stealthier protocol, Amnezia has confirmed that its Free tier's Russian stack will return in the coming weeks.

For internet users trapped behind Russia's "sovereign internet" firewall, the...

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