Russia removed AI VPN blocking plan from national roadmap
Russian officials have dropped a proposal to use artificial intelligence for blocking 95% of virtual private networks from the country's current digital development plan.
Ministry drops AI filtering proposal
The Digital Development Ministry stated that the measure is absent from the current draft of the national AI plan. A front-page report in Kommersant previously noted that the ministry considered using artificial intelligence to push blocking effectiveness to 95%. Sources indicate this specific idea has quietly vanished from the official roadmap.
Separate machine learning project remains
Roskomnadzor continues to run a separately budgeted machine-learning filtering project that is arguably crucial for internet regulation. The 95% figure represents an effectiveness target rather than accuracy, and experts expect the system to raise false positives. Corporate VPN traffic and cloud services remain most exposed to potential blocking under the existing separate project.
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