YouTube in Russia will probably be replaced by VK. Now videos are loaded much slower, and all Russian-language videos from foreign hosting will be transferred to the VK service in the fall.

Why is Signal messenger blocked in Russia?

“It happened”In connection with the violation of the requirements of Russian legislationIts implementation is necessary to prevent the use of the Messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes.” It is interesting that Roskomnadzor announced this to journalists, but there is no such information on their website.

There is also one more thing: “registration of social networks“. These included Likee, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Telegram, LiveJournal, Pikabu, Pinterest, Rutube, Zen, Twitch, Discord, Yappy. The owners of these social networks must monitor content and remove child pornography, “suicidal and pro-narcotic content”. And in general – this information that constitutes a “public danger.” Of course, this concept can be interpreted very broadly..

Below Roskomnadzor provides a list of fines worth millions of rubles already imposed on these networks.

WhatsApp could also be banned in Russia

It may happen in the fall. VK company is thinking about what to replace WhatsApp with. At first they thought of “VK Messenger” as a “sole Orthodox messenger”, but its indicators are weak. “TamTam” is the best for this.

Research was done on how to make a standard messaging tool that could pull everything and be comparable to WhatsApp. So we decided to base it on “TamTam”.
– sources in VK told Verstka.