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14.02.26 - 18:00
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′Got India′s commitment to stop buying Russian oil,′ claims Rubio at Munich conference (Times of India)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed India committed to halting additional Russian oil purchases, amidst ongoing US sanctions. However, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar emphasized "strategic autonomy" and decisions guided by "national interest" and market dynamics. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov disputed claims of India stopping oil buys, accusing the US of coercion....
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14.02.26 - 04:42
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WhatsApp & YouTube Blocked In Russia, Telegram Throttled As State "Super-App" Falters (ZeroHedge)
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WhatsApp & YouTube Blocked In Russia, Telegram Throttled As State "Super-App" Falters
The West has been calling Russia's ever-tightening internet regulations on its citizenry a "digital Iron Curtain". Already over a period of months and years of the Ukraine war, various popular US-based social media apps have been throttled and even banned, but this week things have escalated with YouTube and WhatsApp being blocked in Russia:
Russia's internet regulator Roskomnadzor has removed"youtube.com" from its DNS (Domain Name System) servers. If a user tries to access the site directly without a VPN (Virtual Private Network), their router can no longer assign the address to its IP address.
This means that You Tube is no longer accessible in Russia. The WhatsApp domain has also disappeared from Roskomnadzor's servers. The Russian government has also launched a campaign against the messenger app Telegram, leading analysts to say Roskomnadzor is cracking down on pla...
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