Since January 2025, Russian authorities have intensified pressure on the WhatsApp social messaging platform, reflecting a wider effort to tighten state control over foreign digital platforms and the domestic information environment. This effort has substantially increased since Russia launched its illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the Russian state has sought to limit dissent, and criticism of the war. On 15 January 2026, Andrei Svintsov, deputy chair of the State Duma

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