U.S. is funding VPNs to fight censorship in Russia

A campaign by the Open Technology Fund is providing free VPN services to people in Russia.

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VPNs allow the Russian people to bypass censorship in their country for Information

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VPN usage has skyrocketed in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began.

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The OTF estimates that Psiphon and nthLink have provided about four million Russian VPN users

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"It's so very important for Russians to be connected to the whole world wide web, to keep resistance going. - Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel

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Russian VPN users, over a million users per day, now almost reaching 1.5 million.

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